Futures.

We learned about some crazy stuff in Darwinism today, it was all to do with sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. I think that a lot of it is starting to make sense, however it is always quite difficult to grasp at the time. Towards the end of the lecture we were discussing male/female relationships and attitudes towards sex. Apparently to a woman marriage is like a brothel. This is because the woman can only have a certain amount of children in her lifetime and in a mate she looks for security in which to raise her children and hence secure their survival thus passing on her own genes, this is natural selection, survival of the fitter (not fittest!!). Marriage is like a brothel as it fulfils the evolutionary needs of the woman. However men can create children up until they die, and so according to this evolutionary psychology a man is not satisfied by marriage and will always be looking for a mate. If a man were to cheat on a woman she would see this as an emotional betrayal, rather than physical because she can always have children with somebody else, yet for a woman to cheat it is a physical betrayal because he feels the compulsive need to “spread his seed” as my lecturer so delicately put it.
I don’t really know why I just recalled all of that but the whole thing worries me a bit really. We basically just had a whole lesson of “women you’re going to want to get married but don’t be angry when your husband cheats on you, it is down to evolution.” what a happy thought.
We also learned about a guy called George Price who studied the idea of altruism and figured out mathematical formulas based on the idea that nothing we can ever do is truly selfless. He decided he had figured the formula for original sin and so slashed his own wrists because he couldn’t deal with the idea of living in such a selfish world. I found this pretty astounding considering the guy was apparently a fundamental christian, this module is really quite confusing!

In other news I still haven’t heard from either of the unis that I applied to. I am aware of the fact that I only sent my applications off about two weeks ago but I am really impatient. I want to know now! Especially is I find out that I have to have an interview or something, I hate interviews.

nothing gold

firstly, I love the way that it says “howdy” at the top right hand corner, it looks so sweet.
Secondly, Helen is right, I am properly spoilt. When asked what I had received for valentines day I replied “nothing” to which she said, “Siobhan, hasn’t dan just got you a football shirt, a dress, and a shiny ring”… she is correct, I am a lucky lucky girl. I am actually stupidly happy right now.

Next week I am attending a peaceful protest that is taking place around my university. It is a protest fighting for the freedom of speech and is to have the local news there filming. It is basically to do with the fact that last year a student held a peaceful protest at the university and security called the police to arrest him for breaching the peace or something like that. Also a student was banned from the library during exam period in January for starting a petition about the cost of lost library cards within the university so it is protesting against that too, it should be good fun.

I am now about to go watch some program on channel four about crazy children who go preaching around america which looks like it could be LOL, I shall report back in what it was actually about.

…but you are vast.

There is something no right about my house, I don’t know what but I just don’t like it. I don’t know if it is because it is on a main road and I have always lived on quiet roads before, or just the fact that I am living in crack town that freaks me out. But I have now got to the stage where I can’t look out of my bedroom window when it is dark in-case I see “something”. I am not sure what that “something” is. I have an overactive imagination I think. Or else I need to stop reading the type of books I am currently so absorbed in.