Sunday Hello

Its been a quiet weekend here. I'm wrapping up the last of my school work for the term.

I've got one final exam on Wednesday, a research paper due Thursday and an essay due Friday. All of my lectures are completed so all I have to do now is take the final exam and get the other work turned in.

I'll be heading for the campus library tomorrow and Tuesday to do a little more work on my Personality Psychology research paper which is due Thursday. There are four areas I'm writing on, which include perspectives from the psychoanalytical, dispositional, behavioral, and phenomenological viewpoints. I'll be focusing on one psychoanalytical case study in particular that fascinated me after reading a book by Deborah Luepnitz titled, Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas. It touched me deeply and I'm enjoying the further research.

Have you heard of the Porcupine theory? It illustrates how we all crave intimacy, and yet we all have our limits. In a nutshell, the porcupine theory uses the example of how, in the winter time, porcupines are drawn to each other for warmth, and yet feel pain from their quills when they get too close. Sound familiar?

Click here and scroll down to read the brief Editorial Reviews at Amazon. They give the book a nice summary. You may even consider reading it yourself. Its a beautiful and easy read. Luepnitz, who is a clinical psychologist and also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, covers topics such as transference, counter-transference, the Oedipal complex, and Don Juan theories.

Looks like it will be a road trip for me next weekend. I'm taking my two little kitty visitors to Dulles International Airport in DC where they will board a plane for Los Angeles and then fly to Tokyo, Japan where my daughter and her husband will pick them up from there and then drive back to Sasebo. What a trip the little darlings will have.

The Steelers play at 4:15 today... I'm there.

Hope you all have a great week!

Lee

PS

Here something just for fun.

I happen to be one of those saps who loves Christmas music... Here's a version of one of my favorite songs that comes with a cute video.

Its All I Want (For Christmas Is You), by Vince Vance and the Valiants. The voice is powerful and beautiful, the music is lovely, and the video makes me laugh. A clear case of how actions speak louder than words...For a gal who says she doesn't need expensive things, she sure seem quite comfy. And the expressions on the poor guy's face are absolutely priceless.

Btw, the sax music is awesome. Takes me back to my high school band days--only I used to play trombone (Hey! Did I hear someone laugh?).

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1111254819&fr=

:)