I love school!!!

So I'm taking a slew of classes that I am beyond stoked about this semester - Genetics, Microbiology, an in depth revisiting of Organic Chemistry that is constantly reminding me of how dearly I love that subject; I'm even a little bit excited about Biological Statistics because my teacher is beautiful and funny, and I like beautiful and funny people (see my husband Jeff for evidence of this).  However the class that is currently taking the cake is Nervous Systems and Behavior - don't give up on me based on the title!  It's an out of place psych course - it leans more in the way of a neurological bio course with many philosophical undertones.  In essence, it is the study of the parts of the human mind that deal with emotion, memory, consciousness, and self.  I'm not talking "the emotional center of the brain is Limbic System" here, people.  I'm talking they are teaching me how we evolved into emotional creatures; WHY we are able to love BIOLOGICALLY instead of just have sex for procreation, WHY seeing a picture from our childhood can make us cry with happiness, on a cellular level.  This is the greatest why in the universe!!  Well... besides why are we here, but THIS IS A VERY BIG WHY!!!  And I get to study it!!  NOW!!!     The things we would regularly relegate to the realm of the "soul" (and as a "theist" I will continue to do so) explained with biological structure and reason!  WE ARE STUDYING THE BIOLOGY OF THE SOUL!!  THE CHEMICAL UNDERCURRENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS!  IT IS THE COOLEST THING I HAVE EVER STUDIED EVER, AND IT IS BLOWING MY MIND!!!  This course is dangerous because these kinds of things make me go off the deep end and want to take nothing but courses involving this for the rest of forever.  In which I will be spiritually fulfilled while delivering pizzas...  I will not do this, don't worry.  I have a feeling that "chasing this dragon" in the way I'd like to would have the same neurological effects as the opium dens that coined the phrase, but I'm mondo excited and would at least like to take a more in depth study of memory; a phenomenon that is so monumental that I find it hard to wrap my head around it.  I just find the presence of a self so... witchy and spiritual and just META-physical, like as metaphysical as you can get, and the fact that we're able to map and explain and explore it in the physical world as an evolutionary mechanism...  INcredible!!  INCREDIBLE!!!  Fair warning that I'm probably going to become REALLY annoying as I move through this course.  It's the kind of knowledge that is hard for me not to share.  One of the THREE TEXTBOOKS (barf) required for this course is a really fabulous text by Antonio Damasio who is one of the leading neuroscientists in the US and has written multiple books dealing with the biological theory of "self" and emotions.  I can't put the damn thing down!  And I REALLY need to study for O-Chem!  At any rate, I think this is going to be a great semester back.  I'm taking the smallest course load I think I have ever started a semester with (we sha'nt discuss the ends of said semesters :) )  and I feel very positive and in control!!  I can do this!  I'm not a dumb as I thought!  HUZZAH!!  (No one remind me that this is only the first week; I don't need reality in my life right now!!)  Teehee!  :)