Christopher Gonzalez I recommend against reading any of In the Presence of Fear immediately before you sleep as it may turn your subconscious against you. Negative diction within a few sequential pages includes: overrule, “free,” “efficiencies,” disguise, false, lie, fraudulence, miserable, perishable, polluted, degraded, destroy, ruin, failing, sacrifice, victims, dependent, forbidden, threatening, groundless, fantasy, propaganda, enemy, greed, obvious moral flaws, dangerous practical weaknesses, very seriously implicated, sold their moral allegiance, bigger pile of money, and crisis. In a way, I would prefer merge in some of my past work with present assignments because new work is a drain on my mental faculties and resources and often leaves me feeling tapped, my best ideas imprisoned on fallible, easily destructible or alterable paper. My search for the lyrics to Pink Floyd’s The Happiest Days of Our Lives led to me to a thorough online analysis of The Wall that gave me a greater understanding and appreciation of the work as a whole as opposed to just the few tracks from it I knew beforehand. I look forward to watching it as soon as it becomes practical. I have bullet-pointed several topics upon which I intend to expound in the near future, but for now, let this conclude the first of what I plan to be several journal entries for PSY 303.