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  • “It’s getting better every day as far as the soreness and all that.” Andy Pettitte

    Mmmm.

    DOMS – or as I learned in my “Concepts of Physical Education”, Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.

    Tiny tears in muscle fiber that start getting sore hours after working out. (Typically 24+). In a weird way, it’s good to feel the pain of working out. It reminds me that I did something…..

    I worked out yesterday – a promise I made to myself…

    Although I followed it up with some deep dish pizza (D’OH!), it was worth it.

    I need to get back into the routine – since this weekly cardio work at school seems to be doing nothing for me.


  • “When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as “Catch-22” I’m tempted to reply, “Who has?”” Joseph Heller

    SWOOSH!

    That’s what I have to say about this semester.

    SWOOSH!!

    Today was honestly a day where I almost, almost skipped until my third class. Then I realized that I really didn’t have any really good reason to skip – so I went ahead and got up.

    Worked out in my PE class, and then moseyed on over to the History class. Government was pretty stale and I took off.

    Speaking of stale, I do have a horrible picture of myself in some skinny emo jeans I bought.

    Not much else really to report. The semester is ending soon and finals are coming up. Is it final time already????


  • “You had 10 different layers to the story. All the planets were aligned that day.” Jeff Sluman

    I was talking to my Intro Music professor because he teaches music appreciation as well, which I have already registered for. He mentioned that he only taught night time classes, and I was looking for a day class this time around.

    So, he suggested a certain professor, and it was a Jazz based music appreciation class – which would have been pretty cool. However, it was full. 🙁

    But, while looking for that class, I found that on another campus they have a music appreciation class based on the history of Rock and Roll.(!!!)

    I was honestly trying to avoid being on two different campuses (again) BUT, this option of RnR history is too good to pass up.

    Something interesting AND completion of my AA. Sah-weet!


  • “We still have some vacancies, but we’re winding down.” Sally Smith

    I’m really avoiding thinking about school right now.

    Part of my life experience has taught me that I am much better at short projects than long ones.

    School (even a short college semester) really is much longer than I’m good at focusing at. Granted, I’m still doing MUCH better than I thought I would be. BUT, I can feel it slipping away……slowly.

    I should be okay by the end of the semester, the Chemistry test failure was quite a blow – even though it’s a test grade that gets dropped. I’m probably stressing this debate thing more than I should – my opponent today didn’t even realize the debate was next week! They’re in poor-to-decent shape, and I’d say we’re pretty much in the same position. Finished some Concepts homework and now I’m just bumming around. I should probably catch up on Mad Men or play some guitar. What say?


  • “An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.” Albert Einstein

    Bleah – I’m halfway through my take-home Chemistry test.

    I’ve never had a take home test before. I feel somewhat queasy doing it because it’s like I’m CHEATING when I look at the book.

    Although, she said that the problems would definitely be more challenging since it was obvious that we’d be looking things up. Not breezing through it, but not tremendously difficult.

    I’ve had a hell of a week, so that actually may be why my stomach is queasy.


  • “It doesn’t get better, it doesn’t get worse, but it sure gets different!” David Lee Roth

    I’m coming to a settling point now. Finally.

    Thanks for everyone’s patience (you know who you are) while I somewhat got my shit together.

    Things are at a point now where I’m not diving off a bridge, or climbing up from a chasm.

    Four of my tests are behind me – I got what I wanted in Chemistry, an A in music (yes, if there was a curve, I’d be the one who jacked it up), not sure about the Phys Ed nor the History, but I’m confident that I got what I wanted there. The government test got pushed back another week, so that’s ahead down a road yet. The study sheet is long, but the class is notoriously easy.

    Everything else has been relatively quiet.


  • “The break time is always our busiest time.” Rachel Anderson

    Ahh – taking a break from studying. I must have been a fireman or a police officer in a previous life – yes, my tests are still this week, but the scheduling is no longer horrific.

    Music is tomorrow (no sweat)
    History is Wed (study material is prepped for final cram)
    Friday is Phys Ed (should be no problem – prepping study material for final cram)
    Saturday is Chemisty (err….this may be tricky)

    Govt got moved to next week (yay!)

    Everything else is flowing like molten chocolate, so I’ll catch up on this silly little blog later.

    Later skaters!


  • “No matter how carefully you plan your goals, they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.” W. Clement Stone

    As one modern philosopher once said “Today was a good day” – O’Shea Jackson.

    I did something that I don’t normally do – it totally went the wrong way, didn’t end like I expected, but still I’m happy with the decision. Well done my boy, well done.

    In other news, I took the initiative to attempt to fix the outside spigots that have been leaking. I made one worse and now I have the water turned off for the entire house. The plumber is coming in the morning to fix them. *sigh*

    Home ownership is somewhat fun some times, then incredibly painful other times.


  • “If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph” David Glaser

    I’m being a good boy. I’m sticking around the house rather than going out. I need to plow through a few Netflix discs and practice some guitar…..I already finished most of my homework, enough that I’m satisfied.

    I had to update because it’s been a pretty roller-coaster couple of days. While those closest to me have been riding the front and back cars, and I myself have been solidly in the middle, the days have definitely spun me for a loop (or loop-de-loop or loop-loop-de-loop). There have been a few things that have struck me recently (much like an epiphany) but that I have not quite yet acted on yet.

    I’ve heard recently something that resonated with me, it was said, “I’d rather regret the things I did do, rather than the things I didn’t do”. Which of course I think is totally applicable except for that incident of public nudity on a baseball diamond and possibly the charge of illegal animal husbandry. Regardless, life is short. Extremely short when you look at the long term survival rate of any one human being. (At some point, EVERYONE has a zero survival rate)
    A lot of decisions in my life have been so logic based that I ended up not doing whatever it was because the end result wasn’t something I was entirely comfortable with. These days, I’m finding that to be a pretty limiting decision making process. Always the “what ifs?” held me back. What if? What if? What if?

    Henceforth (yes – I said “henceforth”), I’m going to attempt to head into directions that I haven’t been, do some things I haven’t done, try something I haven’t tried, talk like I haven’t talked, act like I haven’t acted. I’ve come a long way, but there’s a long way to go (and a short time to get there, I’m eastbound just to watch ole bandit run)

    In reality based news, the probate hearing was yesterday. Long story short, it’s probably a good thing I didn’t have some oddly colored hair – because it could have been disastrous. It’s good to act like a completely sane responsible human – some of the time. Ha! Tequila (again) is not my friend – but I’ll know better next time. I still managed to get up, go to school – unfortunately dehydration meant my calves were cramping up so I couldn’t do much. My hair has freedom now – I’m not sure where I should go with it. Most sane people say, “Do what YOU want to with it”. I was going to waffle on it, but I know what I’m going to do now.

    Life is short – remember?