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My bike ride this morning was absolutely gorgeous. The colors are so...almost crystalline in the winter. Bright and sharp without being warm. It's really beautiful. I stared out my window for probably twenty minutes this morning, just watching the light come into the willow's bare hanging branches. Wow.
I'm feeling good today. I had a good weekend...productive, but also restful. Spent the entire day on Saturday working on homework indoors, not even trying to go anywhere, and that actually felt really nourishing to me. I feel like I am going into my week on a good footing, having accomplished almost all my reading and small assignments already. I went to the gym yesterday, and rode my bike to school today. I woke up feeling good today, although part of that was adrenaline from a chase dream! But it's a good day. I'm meeting with a professor this afternoon to talk through an idea I have for the term project for that course, and I'm hopeful that I will be able to get started on it early and really push on it to get it mostly done by the time I present on the topic. I'm glad to be getting things started.
Five classes sort of doesn't feel like enough, in some ways. I'm disconcertingly able to get all my reading done. You can't compare these with courses in other disciplines...they are a lot easier and a lot less work than graduate-level classes in other fields. But I'm trying to take advantage. I'm playing the guitar every day and trying to improve. I'm trying to go to the gym lots, and I'm hoping that by working ahead, I'll be able to set myself up to have less to do at the end of the semester, so if it gets warm enough, I can get back to running outdoors. I'm still working on my goal of being able to do a pull-up eventually--I am now able to do a set of eight pull-downs at 145 lbs. Barely...it's a struggle still, and I'll definitely work at 145 for another while before increasing the weight. But I'm definitely improving.
I'm tucked into an armchair in the student lounge of Larkin, the building where my class is in 45 minutes. I'm equalizing my temperature--after my bike ride, my legs were completely frozen and my torso was dramatically overheated. So I'm letting the heat gradually work its way back into my thighs and calves and out of my too-hot midsection. I feel good today.
This is a very boring post. No drama at the moment.
I'm feeling good today. I had a good weekend...productive, but also restful. Spent the entire day on Saturday working on homework indoors, not even trying to go anywhere, and that actually felt really nourishing to me. I feel like I am going into my week on a good footing, having accomplished almost all my reading and small assignments already. I went to the gym yesterday, and rode my bike to school today. I woke up feeling good today, although part of that was adrenaline from a chase dream! But it's a good day. I'm meeting with a professor this afternoon to talk through an idea I have for the term project for that course, and I'm hopeful that I will be able to get started on it early and really push on it to get it mostly done by the time I present on the topic. I'm glad to be getting things started.
Five classes sort of doesn't feel like enough, in some ways. I'm disconcertingly able to get all my reading done. You can't compare these with courses in other disciplines...they are a lot easier and a lot less work than graduate-level classes in other fields. But I'm trying to take advantage. I'm playing the guitar every day and trying to improve. I'm trying to go to the gym lots, and I'm hoping that by working ahead, I'll be able to set myself up to have less to do at the end of the semester, so if it gets warm enough, I can get back to running outdoors. I'm still working on my goal of being able to do a pull-up eventually--I am now able to do a set of eight pull-downs at 145 lbs. Barely...it's a struggle still, and I'll definitely work at 145 for another while before increasing the weight. But I'm definitely improving.
I'm tucked into an armchair in the student lounge of Larkin, the building where my class is in 45 minutes. I'm equalizing my temperature--after my bike ride, my legs were completely frozen and my torso was dramatically overheated. So I'm letting the heat gradually work its way back into my thighs and calves and out of my too-hot midsection. I feel good today.
This is a very boring post. No drama at the moment.