beautiful disaster

So the S Lit question goes: Are Shakespeare's tragedies the result of the tragic heroes and heroines' own self-destruction or are they the result of situations beyond the characters' control?

My conclusion is both, and my mind wanders to contemplate the possibility of my brother having self-destructive tendencies of Shakespearean-tragedy proportions--his life sure seems like Hamlet's right now.

Anyway, seeping into reality is the reality of having to decide on unis to apply to overseas. Sort of weird because I won't know if I'll be actually going there until March/April/May next year (or perhaps longer), and it's (as I've said before) scary to think about these situations--situations that may or may not actualise. It's scary for me because I'm afraid I'll set myself up for disappointment if I really delve into this whole going-overseas exercise, and in a sense I've been trying not to do too much research and too much thinking about what I want because of this. But I also realise that I'd better get down to doing some real information-gathering in case I am actually able to go overseas.

Why can't I have a bunch of witches that'll tell me what will happen?--On second thoughts, maybe it's a good thing I don't know any.

Prospective major (for scholarship (:P :P :P) purposes): International Relations/Political Science
Potential schools: Tufts, Georgetown (only because of it's IR reputation; I don't actually find it that great a school), George Washington U, UPenn (maybe). Rhodes College? Argh, this is just way too much to handle.

(p.s. So I log on to the Georgetown website and click on the core curriculum for the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service and scroll down and to my horror find:
--4 Economics Courses (!!!):

1. Microeconomics Principles
2. Macroeconomics Principles
3. International Trade
4. International Finance

Ugh. Oh no.)

jac was here with you 7/20/2006 09:27:00 pm

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My Destiny
Psalm 46 (NASB)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

There is river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.
"Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.