a new career in a new town
well would you look at that.. two posts in three days. it's a new age.
not that i have too much to report. i spent most of monday talking on the phone with my mom and then read some hegel. not enough, though. i'm still about 80 pages behind. hooboy.
work was annoying. i'm part-time and i go to school full-time. but they treat me like it's my only obligation. way too much stress.. last quarter i was literally not on time for a single class because they kept me late every day. next on the agenda: quitting. hopefully you won't hear me complain about it again until then.
today i decided to start taking advantage of the school gym. i really should've started doing this long ago. it's not like i do anything more valuable with my free time. i felt a lot better afterwards. i figure an hour three times a week will do me a world of good. i should probably figure out how to use the nautilus machines, though. despite my ultra-sedentary lifestyle i don't seem to be in terribly bad shape. i also plan to start swimming again which i haven't really done since high school. the pool here is outdoors, though, and i don't think i'm gung-ho enough to put on a speedo and jump in when it's 50 degrees and dark out. so i'll try it this weekend during the day, if it's not raining. actually, if i'm in a pool, why would rain matter? it just seems like it should, i guess.
i've noticed that i've been talking to more people at school on an average day. it doesn't seem too great but when i think about it it's quite an improvement from last year. one of the pitfalls is that i'm attaching way too much importance to each individual passing acquaintance. it's an apparently-necessary side effect of having no other real social contact. i probably devoted an hour of thought, both before and after, to the girl i smiled and nodded to in CS class today. (more on that, perhaps, later.) and right now i'm thinking about the guy i talk to in my sociology class tomorrow night. you can bet that he hasn't thought about me today. it's hard not to be a little ashamed of that. more to the point, it causes me to put a self-conscious check on how forward i am. i keep flashing back to the people i've thought of as overbearing in the past. it's worth a lot to me not to be like that.
oh yeah, and i watched the iowa caucuses yesterday. but if i write about politics it's going to be in a separate blog. if you're lucky.
not that i have too much to report. i spent most of monday talking on the phone with my mom and then read some hegel. not enough, though. i'm still about 80 pages behind. hooboy.
work was annoying. i'm part-time and i go to school full-time. but they treat me like it's my only obligation. way too much stress.. last quarter i was literally not on time for a single class because they kept me late every day. next on the agenda: quitting. hopefully you won't hear me complain about it again until then.
today i decided to start taking advantage of the school gym. i really should've started doing this long ago. it's not like i do anything more valuable with my free time. i felt a lot better afterwards. i figure an hour three times a week will do me a world of good. i should probably figure out how to use the nautilus machines, though. despite my ultra-sedentary lifestyle i don't seem to be in terribly bad shape. i also plan to start swimming again which i haven't really done since high school. the pool here is outdoors, though, and i don't think i'm gung-ho enough to put on a speedo and jump in when it's 50 degrees and dark out. so i'll try it this weekend during the day, if it's not raining. actually, if i'm in a pool, why would rain matter? it just seems like it should, i guess.
i've noticed that i've been talking to more people at school on an average day. it doesn't seem too great but when i think about it it's quite an improvement from last year. one of the pitfalls is that i'm attaching way too much importance to each individual passing acquaintance. it's an apparently-necessary side effect of having no other real social contact. i probably devoted an hour of thought, both before and after, to the girl i smiled and nodded to in CS class today. (more on that, perhaps, later.) and right now i'm thinking about the guy i talk to in my sociology class tomorrow night. you can bet that he hasn't thought about me today. it's hard not to be a little ashamed of that. more to the point, it causes me to put a self-conscious check on how forward i am. i keep flashing back to the people i've thought of as overbearing in the past. it's worth a lot to me not to be like that.
oh yeah, and i watched the iowa caucuses yesterday. but if i write about politics it's going to be in a separate blog. if you're lucky.