Whew! I am done studying for the night, but that will pick up in the morning. My Enlightenment test now scares me alot less as I have been able to put the subject together in my own mind in some sort of coherent fashion. Now all thats left is last minute getting of names and works straight, which is the easy part.

Studying for these history/political science tests is a difficult switching of gears from studying for economics. In economics you must master each individual area of theory, usually on its own, and be able to do problems of that type. In history and other non-math disciplines, it is far more important to weave what you have studied into a cloth of ideas, with which you will tailor your essays and short answers. I think it is important though, to develop both skills at the same time, as one compliments the other when working on each subject. At some point I will have to unify the individual theories on economics into more complex ideas about the subject in order to achieve some mastery of the discipline. Also, the analytical breaking down of the individual pieces of a historical subject can help understand the whole. I may be bullshitting here, but this may also make sense. At this point who can tell......

The Red Sox have won again, they have been recalled to life in the most dramatic fashion, turning the tables on the Yankees, and, for a time anyway, showing them what is like to have victory so close at hand only to have it snatched away by mistakes, untimely home runs, and blown saves. If only the Red Sox could complete the comeback with similar dramatic wins in Games 6&7. If this happened, no Red Sox fan would be miserable about their performance in the World Series.

It has been said that sports is the new religion, and I comepletely agree. I've found it somewhat hypocritical of myself to mock those who assert that the Bible is completely true, and without error, while also worshipping at the Altar of Ortiz and believing the Red Sox can come back from a 3-0 deficit without any rational support for that feeling. But, I think that it would be positive if we used up our needs for irrational feelings in the area of sports, where the damage is limited to a few riots here and ther, rather than in religion, which causes people to persecute each other and blow themselves up.