joe ferrare's blog

Spent the evening digging into my homework assignment, which is to do the first draft on my plan for my next degree.  It’s one of those programs that has you design your own degree, then do it.  With help, of course.  My school is Harrison Middleton Univeristy, a Great Books school.  So there are 102 Great Ideas, with 3,000 or so topic below them.  I have to figure out what I want to study, then how to go about it using the Great Books of the Western World.

The problem is, I have two things I’d like to do.  I’d like to concentrate on leadership and communication.  Those are the two things I’ve focused most on, and to which I’d most like to contribute some Great Thoughts.  On the other hand, one reason I started this program is because I feel my education has been too focused on my career, and thus too specialized.  So I’d like to do a kind of classical education for (old) boys.  You know, read Aristotle, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and so on.  But I don’t see how to do both.  More thinking required.

In between looking at the Great Ideas to get mundane ideas I found a site about Bento.  I think I’m going to try this.   I love Korean food, so I’m going to put the Korean food in a Japanese wrapper, so to speak.  Kind of appropriate, as the last time my wife went looking for dang jang at the Korean store she steered her toward Miso.  And we use Japanese kim (seaweed).  So we’ll see what I can come up with.  Also swilled some of the scotch a friend gave me.