i need back my crew icon
today's row was AWESOME. I stroked the light boat and we beat the heavy girls, held off the mixed boat and gave the men's As a run for their money. HELL YES.
I am so tired.
the second piece was 5 or 6 minutes longer than the first (rowing upstream + head wind + longer course). I definitely zoned out for at least the middle third of it. I don't know what my rowing looked like. I was in another place, not listening to anyone. Sometimes that's a really good and cool thing, when one is in the "zone," but I don't know if it was a meditative thing and my rowing was good, or if it was just a consequence of the head congestion. Cause I've been zoning out all day since then.
ellen offered Vespoli-themed prizes to whichever boat was subjectively the fastest and, let me just say, we PWNED it. we did a repeat of the 2 x headrace pieces (minus my nausea after the first), and they felt really, really good. and my tape stayed on the whole time, too! we get our prizes on Monday.
having a crisis of scheduling the weekend of october 7-8. gah. (not to worry, tcfi, you come first. if necessary, even crew's being put on hold for this.) I just already know I'll be REALLY tired the next week.
as for the GRE, i'm relatively pleased with my verbal score, numerically but not percentile-ly pleased with my quantitative, and the analytical (I hate to say this, because every time I'm confident about any sort of test it only turns out I didn't do as well as I hoped), but.... so the topic for the analytical argumentative essay, I'm not allowed to divulge. however, suffice it to say IT WAS ALL ABOUT MY MAJOR AND MY PASSION. it was the subject of one of my classes last semester. if that's not some higher power speakin', I don't know what is. I was able to use all sorts of outside knowledge (of which I was afraid... the study book had outside-knowledge examples like Hamilton's political acts and crap, which I KNOW there's no way I know). I ate the question up, I brought up current issues, and, though I hate to sound overconfident, I really believe it could not have been nailed harder.
The part about finding flaws in an argument was okay, too, I hope. Ah, well. I'll take it again next month, definitely.
Also, all of a sudden last night one of my molars got super-sensitive to EVERYTHING (heat, cold, sweet, touch, air....) and I don't quite know what to do except chew on the other side of my mouth. BAH.
the apartment went shopping last night. I stocked up on EVERYTHING, which was amazing. I feel prepared to live in the apartment and make real meals now.
Now... skipping Flesch for e-errands (all kinds of emails have flown.) now: registrar's office, study abroad fair to schmooze with Arcadia people, and some French homework just before class starts, and then class for two more hours. yeah.
I am so tired.
the second piece was 5 or 6 minutes longer than the first (rowing upstream + head wind + longer course). I definitely zoned out for at least the middle third of it. I don't know what my rowing looked like. I was in another place, not listening to anyone. Sometimes that's a really good and cool thing, when one is in the "zone," but I don't know if it was a meditative thing and my rowing was good, or if it was just a consequence of the head congestion. Cause I've been zoning out all day since then.
ellen offered Vespoli-themed prizes to whichever boat was subjectively the fastest and, let me just say, we PWNED it. we did a repeat of the 2 x headrace pieces (minus my nausea after the first), and they felt really, really good. and my tape stayed on the whole time, too! we get our prizes on Monday.
having a crisis of scheduling the weekend of october 7-8. gah. (not to worry, tcfi, you come first. if necessary, even crew's being put on hold for this.) I just already know I'll be REALLY tired the next week.
as for the GRE, i'm relatively pleased with my verbal score, numerically but not percentile-ly pleased with my quantitative, and the analytical (I hate to say this, because every time I'm confident about any sort of test it only turns out I didn't do as well as I hoped), but.... so the topic for the analytical argumentative essay, I'm not allowed to divulge. however, suffice it to say IT WAS ALL ABOUT MY MAJOR AND MY PASSION. it was the subject of one of my classes last semester. if that's not some higher power speakin', I don't know what is. I was able to use all sorts of outside knowledge (of which I was afraid... the study book had outside-knowledge examples like Hamilton's political acts and crap, which I KNOW there's no way I know). I ate the question up, I brought up current issues, and, though I hate to sound overconfident, I really believe it could not have been nailed harder.
The part about finding flaws in an argument was okay, too, I hope. Ah, well. I'll take it again next month, definitely.
Also, all of a sudden last night one of my molars got super-sensitive to EVERYTHING (heat, cold, sweet, touch, air....) and I don't quite know what to do except chew on the other side of my mouth. BAH.
the apartment went shopping last night. I stocked up on EVERYTHING, which was amazing. I feel prepared to live in the apartment and make real meals now.
Now... skipping Flesch for e-errands (all kinds of emails have flown.) now: registrar's office, study abroad fair to schmooze with Arcadia people, and some French homework just before class starts, and then class for two more hours. yeah.