Art is magical

I went to the art museum today! Dad took me and Kitty and Sungmin, and we walked around and saw mostly the whole thing. It was so wonderful. They had Bird in Space, which is my favorite minimalist sculpture (I guess it's really modernist, but I am an uncultured plebeian), and they had some Rococo stuff, Fragonard and Boucher, and a little Italian rococo too, which is more rare, and they had a Clodion sculpture. There was lots and lots and lots of Degas, including Little Dancer, which made Kitty supremely happy, and lots of Impressionist stuff in general. There wasn't a lot of Romantic stuff, unfortunately, just a couple of Daumier pieces and a few unremarkable landscapes, but they had a lot of Expressionist pieces, and an entire sculpture garden full of Rodin, Lipchitz, Maillol, and Moore. There was a big exhibit room of modern art, and there were quite a few nice Kandinsky paintings, which Sungmin thought were weird, and a lot of Van Gogh, which Dad enjoyed immensely. There was Braque too, and that brings me to a fabulous joke, which I have told to every single person in my unfortunate family: What is Picasso's favorite vegetable? Braque-lee! Oh, that's a knee-slapper. Gotta hand it to myself, I am hilarious. Anyway, there was also a big gallery of proto-Renaissance and Renaissance art, and some of it was rather major. Then there was a lot of Baroque too, and let me tell you, them Dutch people sure were prolific! There was some nice stuff, though. You know, I'd never realized it before today, because I always looked at him in comparison with other painting giants, but Rembrandt is really a master. They had three of his paintings, and they were so much better than the ones around them. It was really obvious. I wish my selfies could live on as masterpieces for centuries after my death. We were there for about four-and-a-half hours, but it didn't feel that long to me, because I was so enthralled by the whole experience. Poor Sungmin, though, he was really feeling the time. So was Kitty. I felt bad for them, but not bad enough to leave. I'm not sure I could have, anyway, because Dad was having a grand old time, and he is as intractable as molasses in January when he wants to do something. So we walked around the galleries discussing art in what I'm sure was a completely unrefined manner, and Kitty and Sungmin had to put up with it all. We got free reproductions of one of Elizabeth Lebrun's portraits when we left, too. It was such a fun experience! I want to go to more museums in the future when I get the chance to do so.
I'm registering for my classes at OSU now. Or, that is to say, I've been in the process of doing so for two days. It's really hard, because there are so many classes I want to take, and I have so little room to do so! I also don't really trust my capabilities in everything, I mean, I might love to take engineering or thermochemistry for physics majors, but I probably wouldn't be very successful if I did. I have to take ten units of natural science, though, which is completely silly, because it's more than anything else, and I'm going for a BA, like seriously wat. I'm okay with it though, because it means I get to take physics and molecular genetics, and I'm excited about both. I almost took anthropology, and chemistry looked interesting, but I think the two I have are better. I'm not going to take them yet, though. I want to make my first semester fairly easy so I can settle into college without getting too stressed and flunking out. I'm going to take five classes, I think, which is fifteen units, so that's not so bad (although I really feel like I could handle more). My AP credit helped a lot, although they don't take every class, sadly. Government and Econ are in the same category, so I have to take one more social science (ish) class, but I'm okay with that. If I can get the classes, I think I'm going to take analytical linguistics, intro to linguistics (which I need for my major, and is my only non-GE class), a writing class, either orchestra or choir, and either a literature class or a didactic music class, depending on if I want to get rid of my literature requirement or my performing arts requirement first. Mom really wants me to have a music minor, and so does Dad, so I guess I should work for that. It's not like it's hard. I want to be in the ensembles anyway, so if I do that for a few years, and take music theory and like two other classes, I'll be good to go. I don't mind, and I want to take the classes anyway, but, you see... I wanted to minor in English. Oh dear, that's such a silly thing to want. Bad Jasmine! Get it together! But a lot of the classes overlap with the GE classes. Let's see. So I have to take fifteen credit hours, or five classes. I'm taking two of those this semester, writing and literature (unless I take music theory instead, but I'll take literature at some point). I need to take three advanced courses, but these can be anything, so if I take, for example, English 4597 (which fulfills my open options GE requirement) and English 3364 (which fulfills my cultures and ideas requirement), I just need to take an advanced writing course (which is the other requirement for a minor), and boom, fifteen credits done! Can that be, though? That seems too easy! But then again, music is also pretty easy. Can you double minor? Probably not. But does that matter? What if I defy the system and rebelliously get a liberal education? I would be a revolutionary! It would be so exciting! I could wear black leather and take shots of whiskey at strategic intervals, and everyone would fear me. I've always wanted to do that. Let's go!
Oh, supper time. Bye now!