Bucket List

So, it's been a while since I posted, I know. College life has been, well, busy!! Not to say I'm not enjoying it, I really am, I've just been insanely busy. A lot of conversations I've had with friends over the past month and a half I've been here, have been about bucket lists. I personally don't have a bucket list, yet. So I've decided to sit here, while I impatiently wait for Castle to come on tonight, and come up with a bucket list. Here goes nothing...

These are in no particular order

1. Attend Comic-Con

2. Visit Australia

3. Learn to speak Hebrew, fluently

4. Visit Israel

5. Fall madly in love

6. Meet at least two of the following people (Zachary Levi, Pauley Perrette, Michael Weatherly, Cote DePablo, Yvonne Strahovski, Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Stana Katic, Bridget Regan)

7. Visit the Grand Canyon

8. Backpack through Europe

9. Take a cruise in the Caribbean

10. Go to Disney World

11. Become a Federal Agent in either the FBI or NCIS

12. Act in either a television show or movie

13. Adopt children from multiple countries around the world

14. Read ten "deep" classics

15. Attend at least three Broadway plays and three different operas, preferably attending all in New York.

This is all I have for now, I'll probably have more later, those will be added in subsequent blog posts.

Later,

~Meghan

Labor Day Weekend

So, tomorrow is Labor Day and the thing I'm most excited about is the fact I don't have Biology!!! :) Closely following though, is the fact that I get to spend the next 24+ hours with my dad's brother and his family, including one of my very best friends, my cousin Morgan!! Originally, they were going to stop by the school, pick me up, and take me out to lunch. Then they realized I was only an hour and half from where they are staying at Orange Beach, and that's how I ended up at the beach until tomorrow!

I love how the holiday's title, "Labor Day" is such an oxymoron. Labor means to work, but Labor Day is a day where most people don't work! I never did understand why that's the way it worked, of course, that didn't keep me from pulling the "but it's Labor Day" card when my dad wanted us to work outside. That's when he always pulled out the "Labor means work" card. I always hated working on holidays when he was home, especially when we had to do school!!!

I definitely had a great day yesterday, doing absolutely nothing, except watching NCIS, ALL DAY LONG!!! I'm serious!! I'm trying to watch all 8 seasons before September 20th so that I can start watching the new season with everyone else. So far, I'm on episode 10 of the third season, meaning I'm moving along pretty fast, I started watching last Friday!

Not sure what exactly we're doing tomorrow, but I'm sure it'll be fun!! Once I get back to the dorm though, it'll be a homework session that'll probably last most of the night :(. Of course, if I finish earlier than I expect to, that'll be okay!!!

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Labor Day weekend and the start of their shortened school/work week!!

Until next time,

~Meghan Johnston

Philosphers, Enlightenment, Doubt, and Confusion.

My classes today included, Intro to Sociology, Western Civilization Since 1660, Honors Lit, and Acting. Three out of my four classes talked about, wait for it... The Enlightenment!!

The Enlightenment came about with the discoveries that the Earth orbited the Sun, the principles of gravity and inertia, and that sickness was not caused by bad blood. And so came a new style of thinking!!

We had to read Descartes's first two Meditations for my Honors Lit class, it was incredibly difficult to get through, but I did it. The one part I understood was his point of, basically, I think therefore I am (Cogito, ergo sum). But during class today, we went over more of what he had written.

His objective was to show that God truly did exist, but he went about it in a very odd way (at least it's odd in my opinion). He began to doubt, his body, his senses, and soon his very existence. He claimed that everything was an illusion and there was a malignant being trying to trick him into believing he was real, all while even doubting God. This all led up to him saying, "I am--I exist: this is certain; but how often? As often as I think; for perhaps it would even happen, if I should wholly cease to think, that I should at the same time altogether cease to be." In layman's terms, I think therefore I am.

On a side note, he used really long sentences in his Meditations, sentences that were about 10 times longer than they should have been!!!

All this added together lead to a lot of confusion from me, but I'm hoping that as this semester goes on, I will become better at understanding what it is all these Philosophers and Theologians were trying to say!!! I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

On a lighter note, my Pretty Little Liars mid-season finale party was fun!!! Me and three other girls all sat in my dorm room watching the finale and talking about what we thought had just happened or was about to happen. Let's just say that January seems really far away right now!!! Also, we have all decided, these three girls, my roommate, and myself, and other girls on our hall if they want to come; that we are going to go see the movie Abduction when it comes out, probably the weekend after. We're going to dress up, go to Olive Garden, and go see the movie!!! It's gonna be a BLAST!!!!

At the moment I think I have one follower to my blog, thanks Shelby for following!!! I hope that you get something out of my ramblings on Descartes. I can only post so much on the blog specifically for the Honors class, especially since I'm kinda scared to post my thought where my ENTIRE class can see how greatly uneducated I really am!!

With a great dislike for the Biology class I have to attend tomorrow, I will now sign off!!

Thanks for reading,

~Meghan Johnston

Who am I?

This is a question I DESPERATELY hope will be answered during my four years here at the University of Mobile located in Mobile, Alabama. Of course, I obviously know a few things about who I am, like my name, age, weight (which I will NEVER tell you), height, year in college, etc. But there are many things I don't know about myself yet, one of those things, is Who I am in Christ, and I am desperately searching for that answer.

As of this moment, I have to get up for my first class of the day, Intro to Sociology, in about 6 and a half hours, and I don't do well with very little sleep, so right now, I'm going to tell you who I am from the information I already have.

Name: Margaret Anne Johnston, though I really prefer being called Meghan!!!

Age: 18

I'm a Freshman, with about 19 hours already under my belt thanks to Dual-Enrolling during high-school. I will probably consider myself a Freshman until next August, when I will be beginning my second year of school; hence, I'll then be a Sophmore. (Did I just use hence in the right context?)

I'm a Sociology major, my concentration is in Criminal Justice. Bet you can't guess what I want to do with my degree :). In all seriousness, I want to become a Homicide Detective for the Police before one day, hopefully, going to work at a Federal level as a Special Agent either for the FBI or NCIS. (Don't tell my dad though, he'd think it was great that I wanted to work for the Navy. Even though technically I wouldn't be under Naval employ.)

I am a Christian, though I have been having problems figuring out exactly what I believe. Not that I doubt anything the Bible says, just that I am trying to figure out exactly how to apply it to my life.

I am a TV fanatic!!! Give me the name of a really good television show, something with suspense, the supernatural, or Law Enforcement, and I will be hooked within two episodes. Then I'll watch every episode of the show that has aired and become just as rabid a fan as any of the shows other fans. Chuck, Pretty Little Liars, Bones, Castle, The Lying Game, White Collar, Psych, and NCIS are the shows I'm currently hooked on, and I've only JUST started watching NCIS.

I can't think of anything else to say, and I kinda need to go to sleep so I can get up and make it through 6 1/2hours of classes tomorrow! There is one thing to look forward to tomorrow, my Pretty Little Liars mid-season finale party in my room.

If you read this, thanks!!

Meghan Johnston