Busy, Busy, Busy.

This week has been very busy for me - school, 2 part time jobs, bartending school, and applying for colleges out West. My to do list keeps growing and growing, and keeping up is getting to be tough. Last week in Abnormal Psychology we discussed OCD, and did a writing exercise where we were asked what behaviors we did that could be classified as OCD. I wrote about when I was younger had this obsession with counting and making sure both sides of my body were "even." I would need to take the same number of steps per sqaure on the sidewalks, make sure my feet always took the same amount of steps.. or felt like they took the same number of steps. I would need to chew my food in both sides of my mouth until it felt right, etc. I don't really do any of these behaviors anymore, I suppose you could say I "grew out of it."
We also spoke briefly about the Phenomenological/Humanistic Theory which is an "innate drive toward personal growth" or, self-actualization as Dr. Welkowitz said. I connected this with my philosophy class, where we are learning about Jean-Paul Sartre and reading some of his works (Being And Nothingness, Nausea). In philosophy, the phenomenological theory is defined as how you percieve things through your five senses.

That's all for now. :)