What a day. It started off very early. Like 5:45 early. Everyone except for Kimmy and me left around 6 this morning. I got a shower after mom and dad left, then Kimmy and I went to breakfast a little before 6:30. We both forgot that we were supposed to hurry (it was early and we were still tired), so we didn't end up leaving until 7. At this point I remembered that we were supposed to be parked around this time... oops!
Dad gave me some directions, but my GPS had me going a different way. And at 7 am... the GPS won. We got into Columbus alright and dad had given me a parking garage in which we could park. So when we got off the highway we pulled into a gas station so I could figure out where we were supposed to go. We ended up finding a parking garage, but it seemed very empty. Oh well, we just decided to park and get going. It took me a few minutes to figure out where to go, but eventually we were on our way. It seemed strange that there was nothing race related going on...
Yeah. It appears that there are multiple parking lots on Neil Avenue. Dad parked at the one on the south end near downtown. I... did not. I parked on the north side, by the hospital. So Kimmy and I had about a 4+ mile walk ahead of us. It was a lovely walk, but we were both very tired by the time we found mom... over an hour after the race had started. After we collected ourselves we went off to the 9th mile marker, where there were apparently a lot of people. This particular place was at an intersection where the runners were turning and the crowd of onlookers had formed a tunnel on the street through through which the runners were going. But the resident police force was less than amused by the cluster of people clogging the roads. So they made us get onto the sidewalk. I decided that this was unacceptable, so I found another spot closer to the race where we could stand. Eventually we did dad and Amber and Jessie. Go team! We also saw Meghan Comer. I didn't hear who she was watching, but I think it was her sister. Or some family member.
After that we went to the finish. Well. We headed to the finish. There is a lot going on at these races. So we started heading over in the direction of the finish, but there was a road to cross. Thankfully, the wonderful Natoinwide building had a skybridge for us to use, so we could go over the road. Eventually we found our way to the finish. We ran into the Church family after Alli had finished. And she was still alive, so we were quite pleased for this. Then we went off to find out party. Which we did end up doing.
Then things go complicated. Dad was very cold and needed to go back to the car. Jessie was going to go watch Richard finish the marathon. And I was parked in the middle of nowhere. So Jessie went to go find Richard and the rest of us went to Amber's car. The parking garage was very full of people, but when we eventually found her car we all piled in and headed back to where I had parked. Naturally the race was still going on and they were running on the only road that we could take to get to my parking garage. So... Amber got close, but eventually we realized there was no practical way of getting to the garage. So I got out and just ran the rest of the way. It was only a mile or so. But I did find it. And I guess that lot has free parking on the weekends! Yay! On the way back I had the lovely pleasure of trying to maneuver my way around the race... and through a crowd of runners... and all the mess. But eventually I found my family.
Amber and I were going to go pick up Jessie and Richard because they got a little lost, but we just gave them directions. That was probably for the best, since it was going to be hard for us to get a car downtown. Then we hung around in the Giant Eagle parking lot for a while. We got some food. Then we all went home.
When we got here... some people ate. Kimmy and I did homework. But pretty much the rest of the day was spent lounging around. Doing homework. Eating. That sort of thing.
And now...after a very long day... it is bed time. Good night!
10.16.2011
10.15.2011
Day 147
This morning I woke up a bit early. Maybe 830? I just kind of slunk around. I got breakfast. Took a shower. Talked with the people who were awake. Around 10 Jessie and Richard and I went to visit the grandfolks. That was fun. Richard and I helped Poppy do some reorganizing in the garage so that the scooter would fit next to the car. Then we went back to the apartment and talked. We all got caught up on each other's lives. It was nice.
When we got back to the house we got lunch. I found some soup. And ate it. People made fun of me because I ate it cold... They don't understand. Silly people. Cold soup is good. After lunch we left for Columbus!
I've officially decided that I want to move here. I really like downtown Columbus. After I graduate I'd really like to get a job with Nationwide. There are some really nice duplexes and apartments in short north. I could live there. But we'll see.
We went to the expo for the marathon. There were a lot of people and vendors. So we wandered around for a while. Saw the Church family. Walked around some more. I found the nationwide booth and talked with the people there. I told them that I'm studying to be an Actuary. They had me leave my contact information. They sent me an automated "thanks for talking with us, learn about our insurance policies!" email, but we'll see if anything comes of that. I'm not holding my breath.
After the expo we went to our hotel, got settled, and went to bob Evans for dinner. It was good. I had meatloaf. Then we came back, had Jessie birthday cake, and just hung out. I did some homework. And now it's off to bed for an early morning before the race! But I'm not running this time. So good night!
10.14.2011
Day 146
Today started off with me getting up. I always like when my days start that way. After I got up I showered and ate breakfast. I finished my bread. I need to get more when I go shopping on Wednesday.
In finance we look more at bonds and determining their cost. It always seems so straight forward in class, but I know that it will become way trickier when I have to do the problems on my own.
In between classes I went to talk with Mr. Dean about my resume. I've been really concerned with my lack of internship interviews so I brought in my resume to see if there was something wrong with it. He has some formatting suggestions but he said there was nothing wrong with it except that I have not passed any actuarial exams. I explained my schedule for taking them and said it was a very good plan. But he explained the very thing that I was guessing: I have a fine resume, but nothing stands out. Every person applying for these internships has a good GPA, is good at math, has worked jobs where they have to deal with people. My programming and Excel/Access experience is helpful, but it's not enough to set me apart from everyone else. Pretty much each of the things on my resume is helpful, but there is no one thing that sets me apart. But he didn't seem concerned at all about getting an internship. More than once he encouraged me that I will get a job even if I don't have an internship. As long as I keep taking and passing exams. He did say that it would be very appropriate to email the companies after I pass an exam with my updated resume on the chance that they have an opening (or can make an opening) for me. Afterwards we just talked about being an actuary and he explained more about what work he has done and what I can expect. He said that when you become a manager you no longer have to do data analysis and number crunching. That's for the interns and analysts. As a manager I get to come up with the ideas and let everyone else work out the details. And I think that sounds like a lot of fun. It was really helpful talking with him. I feel much better about how things are going. This semester I'm going to focus on getting good grades. After this semester I'll start studying for FM and see how things go from there. I'll be happy if I can take FM, P, and MLC before I graduate. Taking MFE would be an extra wonderful bonus. But I'll worry about the first three first.
After my meeting with Mr. Dean I went to his class. Today we were in the computer lab learning how to construct life tables in excel. It wasn't too bad. Putting in the formulas is always frustrating. I was getting the wrong answer for so long because I had one parenthesis in the wrong place. But after I got that fixed it worked just fine.
After class it was "get ready to come to Mount Vernon then Findlay" time! Which meant eating, packing, and figuring out how to get to Mount Vernon. Apparently 36 was closed so I had to find a different way. I finally left around 12:40. It was a pretty uneventful trip. I just... drove. Listened to music. Danced to my music. Got some coffee. Listened to more music. Danced to more music. Drove. Rinse. Repeat. Arrive at Mount Vernon. When Kimmy was ready we got her stuff packed up, got food, got gas, then headed to Findlay!
We got here around 7 or so. Then just sat around and talked with parents. I did some grading. Jessie and Richard got here as well. I finished grading. Talked with people. And...thus concludes my night! The end.
In finance we look more at bonds and determining their cost. It always seems so straight forward in class, but I know that it will become way trickier when I have to do the problems on my own.
In between classes I went to talk with Mr. Dean about my resume. I've been really concerned with my lack of internship interviews so I brought in my resume to see if there was something wrong with it. He has some formatting suggestions but he said there was nothing wrong with it except that I have not passed any actuarial exams. I explained my schedule for taking them and said it was a very good plan. But he explained the very thing that I was guessing: I have a fine resume, but nothing stands out. Every person applying for these internships has a good GPA, is good at math, has worked jobs where they have to deal with people. My programming and Excel/Access experience is helpful, but it's not enough to set me apart from everyone else. Pretty much each of the things on my resume is helpful, but there is no one thing that sets me apart. But he didn't seem concerned at all about getting an internship. More than once he encouraged me that I will get a job even if I don't have an internship. As long as I keep taking and passing exams. He did say that it would be very appropriate to email the companies after I pass an exam with my updated resume on the chance that they have an opening (or can make an opening) for me. Afterwards we just talked about being an actuary and he explained more about what work he has done and what I can expect. He said that when you become a manager you no longer have to do data analysis and number crunching. That's for the interns and analysts. As a manager I get to come up with the ideas and let everyone else work out the details. And I think that sounds like a lot of fun. It was really helpful talking with him. I feel much better about how things are going. This semester I'm going to focus on getting good grades. After this semester I'll start studying for FM and see how things go from there. I'll be happy if I can take FM, P, and MLC before I graduate. Taking MFE would be an extra wonderful bonus. But I'll worry about the first three first.
After my meeting with Mr. Dean I went to his class. Today we were in the computer lab learning how to construct life tables in excel. It wasn't too bad. Putting in the formulas is always frustrating. I was getting the wrong answer for so long because I had one parenthesis in the wrong place. But after I got that fixed it worked just fine.
After class it was "get ready to come to Mount Vernon then Findlay" time! Which meant eating, packing, and figuring out how to get to Mount Vernon. Apparently 36 was closed so I had to find a different way. I finally left around 12:40. It was a pretty uneventful trip. I just... drove. Listened to music. Danced to my music. Got some coffee. Listened to more music. Danced to more music. Drove. Rinse. Repeat. Arrive at Mount Vernon. When Kimmy was ready we got her stuff packed up, got food, got gas, then headed to Findlay!
We got here around 7 or so. Then just sat around and talked with parents. I did some grading. Jessie and Richard got here as well. I finished grading. Talked with people. And...thus concludes my night! The end.
10.13.2011
Day 145
Last day before break = completed. I will be on break in less than 12 hours.
So today. I got up a tad late, but that's ok. I walked from the parking lot with Jordan and Erica. I have no idea what we talked about... that feels like it was 8 years ago. In finance we started talking about bonds. And I had a terrible time following. I just couldn't focus. I kept zoning in and out.
In between classes some of us had a very nice rant about why we're not getting many internship interviews. It really comes down to the fact that the people getting interviews have one thing that really stands out. The one guy who has 2 exams passed. Another who has 1 exam, good grades, and research experience. The girl who had a 4.0 GPA and played soccer. So even though I'm achieving on par with (or better than) some of the people getting lots of interviews... that isn't translating into much for me at the moment. So that's been really difficult and stressful, just knowing that I've only gotten three interviews, I bombed one of them and got a rejection email from the other. I hope my interview on Wednesday goes well. I'm pretty nervous since it might be for their "professional employment" position, not an internship. In which case... they must not have looked at my resume closely at all. Because I definitely say that I'm looking for an internship and I certainly have no exams passed. And everyone else at the table was in pretty much the same situation. So tomorrow I'm going to talk with my advisor to see if there is something I should change about my resume. I'm just getting really worried about the lack of interviews I've had. I know that there will be more in the future... but I just get nervous.
During life contingencies Mr. Dean was going to show us how to build life tables in Excel, but the projector wasn't cooperating. So we didn't do that. We just worked some more on this problem and... I'm not really sure what we were trying to do most of the time.
Then I taught. We did some more stuff with probabilities. After class I gave them a possibility for some extra credit. They have to give me an explanation to the classic Monty Hall problem. And I need to bee convinced that they understand. We'll see how that goes.
After class I went to my office, ate lunch, and looked online for internships that don't require an actuarial exam. There aren't many. I don't even know how many I filled out. They take so long... I might have done 5 in 2 hours. When I finished with that I met Kathryn in the computer lab to work on Finance. I had invited everyone else but they were all busy. This finance assignment was done in Excel and I'm pretty comfortable with Excel. So I showed her how to use formulae and all that fun stuff. It was pretty straight forward. I think we finished it in just under two hours.
I made stir fry for dinner. It was pretty good. I added a little too much cayenne pepper again. It was good... just a little too much kick. Oh well. I was going to go work out... and grade... but neither happened. Grading shouldn't take long. Maybe an hour. Something. It will get done. But not tonight. Because I'm going to bed now. Night!
So today. I got up a tad late, but that's ok. I walked from the parking lot with Jordan and Erica. I have no idea what we talked about... that feels like it was 8 years ago. In finance we started talking about bonds. And I had a terrible time following. I just couldn't focus. I kept zoning in and out.
In between classes some of us had a very nice rant about why we're not getting many internship interviews. It really comes down to the fact that the people getting interviews have one thing that really stands out. The one guy who has 2 exams passed. Another who has 1 exam, good grades, and research experience. The girl who had a 4.0 GPA and played soccer. So even though I'm achieving on par with (or better than) some of the people getting lots of interviews... that isn't translating into much for me at the moment. So that's been really difficult and stressful, just knowing that I've only gotten three interviews, I bombed one of them and got a rejection email from the other. I hope my interview on Wednesday goes well. I'm pretty nervous since it might be for their "professional employment" position, not an internship. In which case... they must not have looked at my resume closely at all. Because I definitely say that I'm looking for an internship and I certainly have no exams passed. And everyone else at the table was in pretty much the same situation. So tomorrow I'm going to talk with my advisor to see if there is something I should change about my resume. I'm just getting really worried about the lack of interviews I've had. I know that there will be more in the future... but I just get nervous.
During life contingencies Mr. Dean was going to show us how to build life tables in Excel, but the projector wasn't cooperating. So we didn't do that. We just worked some more on this problem and... I'm not really sure what we were trying to do most of the time.
Then I taught. We did some more stuff with probabilities. After class I gave them a possibility for some extra credit. They have to give me an explanation to the classic Monty Hall problem. And I need to bee convinced that they understand. We'll see how that goes.
After class I went to my office, ate lunch, and looked online for internships that don't require an actuarial exam. There aren't many. I don't even know how many I filled out. They take so long... I might have done 5 in 2 hours. When I finished with that I met Kathryn in the computer lab to work on Finance. I had invited everyone else but they were all busy. This finance assignment was done in Excel and I'm pretty comfortable with Excel. So I showed her how to use formulae and all that fun stuff. It was pretty straight forward. I think we finished it in just under two hours.
I made stir fry for dinner. It was pretty good. I added a little too much cayenne pepper again. It was good... just a little too much kick. Oh well. I was going to go work out... and grade... but neither happened. Grading shouldn't take long. Maybe an hour. Something. It will get done. But not tonight. Because I'm going to bed now. Night!
10.12.2011
Day 144
I got to sleep in this morning. It was amazing. And by "sleep in" I mean "I woke up at 7:30." Oh well. I was going to work out today but decided I'd rather get some extra work done. So I did a little bit of stats before I showered and went sit in the office for a while. I got less done than I was hoping and I'm not sure why. I really didn't get distracted that much. It just seems that my work took a lot longer than I was expecting. But I got all my grading done and a general idea of what I'm going to teach tomorrow.
After I was done in my office I came back to my apartment. I was kind of sad that I didn't get to interview with Aon-Hewitt. The guys who did the presentation last night were really nice and just seemed like they were a lot of fun. I sent one of the guys a thank you email with my resume attached, so hopefully something comes of that. They seemed to like me, so perhaps they'll put in a good word for me. We'll see. I'm going to hold my breath though. I've accepted that I'm not the first round candidate for these companies. Three of the people in my class are. They've each had 8 or 9 interviews and a couple second interviews. I've had three. :/ And a fourth after break. Oh well. Something will certainly happen.
But yeah. I worked on stats when I came back. I'm going to have a lot of work to do over break. I'll need to finish stats homework if I don't finish it tomorrow, finish whatever finance homework I don't do tomorrow, study for my stats quiz on Wednesday, look at the next chapter of life contingencies and review what we've done (maybe), and possibly start working on the practice exam for my class. But I doubt that I'll get around to that. I feel like I just gave them an exam. Well, it won't be a couple more weeks before I give it to them. We'll see how all of this goes.
Hm. I had stats class tonight. It went alright. I think that following along in the book as she lectures will be more helpful than just trying to take notes on everything.
Pretty much the rest of the night I just went between preparing for my lesson, doing stats, cleaning (a very little bit), and zoning out because I couldn't concentrate anymore. Which is a lot like right now. So... I'm going to bed. Good night all.
After I was done in my office I came back to my apartment. I was kind of sad that I didn't get to interview with Aon-Hewitt. The guys who did the presentation last night were really nice and just seemed like they were a lot of fun. I sent one of the guys a thank you email with my resume attached, so hopefully something comes of that. They seemed to like me, so perhaps they'll put in a good word for me. We'll see. I'm going to hold my breath though. I've accepted that I'm not the first round candidate for these companies. Three of the people in my class are. They've each had 8 or 9 interviews and a couple second interviews. I've had three. :/ And a fourth after break. Oh well. Something will certainly happen.
But yeah. I worked on stats when I came back. I'm going to have a lot of work to do over break. I'll need to finish stats homework if I don't finish it tomorrow, finish whatever finance homework I don't do tomorrow, study for my stats quiz on Wednesday, look at the next chapter of life contingencies and review what we've done (maybe), and possibly start working on the practice exam for my class. But I doubt that I'll get around to that. I feel like I just gave them an exam. Well, it won't be a couple more weeks before I give it to them. We'll see how all of this goes.
Hm. I had stats class tonight. It went alright. I think that following along in the book as she lectures will be more helpful than just trying to take notes on everything.
Pretty much the rest of the night I just went between preparing for my lesson, doing stats, cleaning (a very little bit), and zoning out because I couldn't concentrate anymore. Which is a lot like right now. So... I'm going to bed. Good night all.
Day 143
I just had to check my clock to see what day it was. I thought it was at least Thursday. Nope. Still Tuesday. Which is good, since I still have plenty to do before I leave on Friday.
Since it is still Tuesday, that means that I had class this morning. It seems like so long ago. Actually it seems like an entire day has past since I went to class. In Finance we got a homework assignment due after break. It appears that I'll need to brush up on my Excel skills, because he wants it all done there. Which in the end will make it easier, I just haven't used much Excel recently.
In between classes I did some work in the computer lab. Timbo and David where there also. And I put in a course request submission for the spring. While I was up there, Mr. Dean came by and told us about an exam P prep class that will be offered in the spring that he highly recommends. So I'm going to take that instead of corporate finance, which I figure I will have ample opportunities to take at some other time.
During Life Contingencies we learned that we will be having a project that will involve Excel (since that's a very useful tool for actuaries). But Mr. Dean is going to give us an Excel lesson before hand, because most people are not very confident with it. So that will be good. I'm decent with Excel for basic formula editing and such, but nothing too advanced.
After class I taught. It's very difficult to transition between a finance/probability class to... intro math. But I think I've been doing alright. I didn't feel very prepared for my lesson today. There was just so much information to cover today. But I got through it with a few minutes to spare, so I just went through a few examples, even though I know that they're going to complain that I didn't cover enough of the material for the homework. After class was over Caleb came up to me. He informed me that it was Keegan's birthday and that they were going to lunch with some of their friends to celebrate. They wanted to know if I would like to join. It sounded like fun, so I decided to join them. It turns out that the main reason they asked me was because they wanted to go to some dining area on campus at which students are not allowed to eat during the lunch hour...unless accompanied by an instructor. So I went in there, explained that the group of 5 guys (only two of whom are in my class) are with me. But that there was no way I was going to pay for them :) It was a very nice set up and the food was really good. I also enjoyed talking with those guys. It was a lot of fun. I was telling them that I always pack my own lunch because I live on a pretty tight budget. I explained how I usually spend around $25 a week on groceries and that lunch (generally) costs me around $6 for the week. One of the guys looks at me and says "I just spent over $8 on this lunch... you're crazy." Most of my friends feel that way as well. But I manage.
After lunch I went to go work out. That was less fun than lunch. I did finally find the locker room and the scale. Apparently since moving to school I've lost 12 pounds, which would explain why my pants feel so big. I guess I can thank regular exercise, less food, lower carbs, and salads everyday for lunch. And usually sufficient sleep.
When I had finished my work out I came back, took a shower, then did some internship related stuff. I sent an email to thank my interview from last week, sent another email to Jackson to see where there were in the review process for interns, and then applied to some place that Mr. Dean recommended to us. That took a while because the website tried to just take information from my resume and... I think it tried to just throw it around into random text boxes while simultaneously destroying my meticulous formatting, instead of trying to preserve experience and explanations in a natural progression. So if that was the intention, I've never seen such an effective website.
After that I did a little states homework. Then it was time to go to the informational session for Aon-Hewitt. It was really good. The two guys presenting were very nice, younger, and lively. They were very excited about their jobs and their company. I liked that. I was sad that I didn't get offered an interview though. I think that would have been a good interview. They seemed to like me. There were only 5 of us at this session... I'm not sure why. But it was nice to have that close atmosphere. And then we got to all take pizzas home because there was so much extra! Woo!
When I got back I worked on stats some more. Then...decided that I couldn't concentrate anymore so I played Team Fortress for a bit. I talked with Dustin on Facebook about some of the homework and we got another problem finished. It's difficult to do math via any sort of textual message, especially when so many of the things we do have superscripts and subscripts....
And now it's bed time. Good night all.
Since it is still Tuesday, that means that I had class this morning. It seems like so long ago. Actually it seems like an entire day has past since I went to class. In Finance we got a homework assignment due after break. It appears that I'll need to brush up on my Excel skills, because he wants it all done there. Which in the end will make it easier, I just haven't used much Excel recently.
In between classes I did some work in the computer lab. Timbo and David where there also. And I put in a course request submission for the spring. While I was up there, Mr. Dean came by and told us about an exam P prep class that will be offered in the spring that he highly recommends. So I'm going to take that instead of corporate finance, which I figure I will have ample opportunities to take at some other time.
During Life Contingencies we learned that we will be having a project that will involve Excel (since that's a very useful tool for actuaries). But Mr. Dean is going to give us an Excel lesson before hand, because most people are not very confident with it. So that will be good. I'm decent with Excel for basic formula editing and such, but nothing too advanced.
After class I taught. It's very difficult to transition between a finance/probability class to... intro math. But I think I've been doing alright. I didn't feel very prepared for my lesson today. There was just so much information to cover today. But I got through it with a few minutes to spare, so I just went through a few examples, even though I know that they're going to complain that I didn't cover enough of the material for the homework. After class was over Caleb came up to me. He informed me that it was Keegan's birthday and that they were going to lunch with some of their friends to celebrate. They wanted to know if I would like to join. It sounded like fun, so I decided to join them. It turns out that the main reason they asked me was because they wanted to go to some dining area on campus at which students are not allowed to eat during the lunch hour...unless accompanied by an instructor. So I went in there, explained that the group of 5 guys (only two of whom are in my class) are with me. But that there was no way I was going to pay for them :) It was a very nice set up and the food was really good. I also enjoyed talking with those guys. It was a lot of fun. I was telling them that I always pack my own lunch because I live on a pretty tight budget. I explained how I usually spend around $25 a week on groceries and that lunch (generally) costs me around $6 for the week. One of the guys looks at me and says "I just spent over $8 on this lunch... you're crazy." Most of my friends feel that way as well. But I manage.
After lunch I went to go work out. That was less fun than lunch. I did finally find the locker room and the scale. Apparently since moving to school I've lost 12 pounds, which would explain why my pants feel so big. I guess I can thank regular exercise, less food, lower carbs, and salads everyday for lunch. And usually sufficient sleep.
When I had finished my work out I came back, took a shower, then did some internship related stuff. I sent an email to thank my interview from last week, sent another email to Jackson to see where there were in the review process for interns, and then applied to some place that Mr. Dean recommended to us. That took a while because the website tried to just take information from my resume and... I think it tried to just throw it around into random text boxes while simultaneously destroying my meticulous formatting, instead of trying to preserve experience and explanations in a natural progression. So if that was the intention, I've never seen such an effective website.
After that I did a little states homework. Then it was time to go to the informational session for Aon-Hewitt. It was really good. The two guys presenting were very nice, younger, and lively. They were very excited about their jobs and their company. I liked that. I was sad that I didn't get offered an interview though. I think that would have been a good interview. They seemed to like me. There were only 5 of us at this session... I'm not sure why. But it was nice to have that close atmosphere. And then we got to all take pizzas home because there was so much extra! Woo!
When I got back I worked on stats some more. Then...decided that I couldn't concentrate anymore so I played Team Fortress for a bit. I talked with Dustin on Facebook about some of the homework and we got another problem finished. It's difficult to do math via any sort of textual message, especially when so many of the things we do have superscripts and subscripts....
And now it's bed time. Good night all.
10.10.2011
Day 142
Well. It was Monday today. Indeed.
I got up a little late this morning but still got to class on time.
I just completely zoned out and got lost in my own thoughts for about 5 minutes. Does that happen to anyone else? It's odd. With this whole moving thing and getting used to a new lifestyle I've started thinking more about my coping mechanisms. And one that has proven to be especially useful over the years (that I am quite certain is incredibly unhealthy) is to pretend like bad memories don't exist. Obviously I take care of whatever physical needs require attention, but if it's simply a memory that causes me displeasure I simply push it away until it becomes a fading memory. After a while of that I just unconsciously pretend as if it never happened. I've never really gotten into conversations about coping mechanisms (it usually gets too close to people's personal pains, which few people like to discuss I have realized), but I always wonder if other people cope the same ways that I do. So that was a summary of my little zoning out right there.
Anyhow. I had class this morning. After which I went to my office and ate lunch. This week for my lunch I seasoned the chicken with cinnamon and cayenne pepper. And it tastes amazing. The cayenne adds enough of a kick to make you want more and the cinnamon just tastes heavenly. Unfortunately I didn't get enough salad dressing, so it tasted a lot like plain lettuce.
When I had finished with lunch I went to go work out. Timbo was down there. I've come to the conclusion that I just can't get motivated to push myself very hard in the weight room. I do push myself some... but I'm never sore afterwards. I just can't motivate myself enough to work that hard without a group or such. Blech. Oh well.
After working out I tried to find the locker room so that I could weigh myself but I could't find it. So I just left. Came home. Showered. Played Team Fortress during my snack break. Graded. Then went to class again. I really didn't feel like I got much out of the lecture today. Bleh. And we have a quiz the day after break. And a homework assignment to turn in. I have about a third of it done, I think.
I came back after class and had corn chowder for dinner. Then I watched Transformers while I graded the rest of the extra credit papers. And I just finished writing my lesson plan for tomorrow, so that means that it's bed time! Night!
I got up a little late this morning but still got to class on time.
I just completely zoned out and got lost in my own thoughts for about 5 minutes. Does that happen to anyone else? It's odd. With this whole moving thing and getting used to a new lifestyle I've started thinking more about my coping mechanisms. And one that has proven to be especially useful over the years (that I am quite certain is incredibly unhealthy) is to pretend like bad memories don't exist. Obviously I take care of whatever physical needs require attention, but if it's simply a memory that causes me displeasure I simply push it away until it becomes a fading memory. After a while of that I just unconsciously pretend as if it never happened. I've never really gotten into conversations about coping mechanisms (it usually gets too close to people's personal pains, which few people like to discuss I have realized), but I always wonder if other people cope the same ways that I do. So that was a summary of my little zoning out right there.
Anyhow. I had class this morning. After which I went to my office and ate lunch. This week for my lunch I seasoned the chicken with cinnamon and cayenne pepper. And it tastes amazing. The cayenne adds enough of a kick to make you want more and the cinnamon just tastes heavenly. Unfortunately I didn't get enough salad dressing, so it tasted a lot like plain lettuce.
When I had finished with lunch I went to go work out. Timbo was down there. I've come to the conclusion that I just can't get motivated to push myself very hard in the weight room. I do push myself some... but I'm never sore afterwards. I just can't motivate myself enough to work that hard without a group or such. Blech. Oh well.
After working out I tried to find the locker room so that I could weigh myself but I could't find it. So I just left. Came home. Showered. Played Team Fortress during my snack break. Graded. Then went to class again. I really didn't feel like I got much out of the lecture today. Bleh. And we have a quiz the day after break. And a homework assignment to turn in. I have about a third of it done, I think.
I came back after class and had corn chowder for dinner. Then I watched Transformers while I graded the rest of the extra credit papers. And I just finished writing my lesson plan for tomorrow, so that means that it's bed time! Night!
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