desires
Instead of celebrating the non-Irish Irish Saint Drinking Day with green beer and carousing downtown, I headed north to McConnells Mill State Park for, by my guesstimation, a measly four mile hike on mixed trails. I am, as usual, horrifically out of shape and under-prepared for any physical activity I ever take part in, but my legs had a faint, *good* ache to them the day after. I need to go hiking more often. (I'm also looking at the Couch to 5K program with utmost skepticism.)
I tested out my new GPS (Roomful Express was handing out free ones with a minimum purchase which I surpassed), and it works much better than VZ Navigator. It got me from my place to Vicki's and back to my place via Randy's (the latter on a slightly more direct route than I had been taking). I now really, really want to take a road trip somewhere.
I went with Jay up to Penn State Beaver where he has been accepted ("You should apply to Penn State with me!" "I really do like beaver, I've told you, but not that much." "Oh, you went there!" "I had to, if only just the once." This? Is the level of our conversations. Not exactly highbrow, about 12-year-old humor. <3 ) and find myself really wanting to go back to school.
I also fell madly and inexplicably in love with bridges, their architecture and the physics of them. The route to PSB passes through an area that is/was heavily industrialized -- full of factories, train yards, and mills -- and a couple of the railroad bridges were definitely worth closer examination and photography. Also, Pittsburgh is a City of Bridges, given our three rivers, so there are lots of examples to be had in the area. I chose McConnells partly for its covered bridge. I've been reading a lot of Wikipedia bridge-related articles. Etc.
I still haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, but a few numbers from the soundtrack really make me want to attend a good drum circle. Not that I've really been, apart from that once.
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Since tossing this entry up on Facebook, I've made progress on #2.
I popped over to CCAC and found that the application for their LPN -> RN program is due... on the 20th. I wasn't even thinking about an immediate deadline, just that I would check the program out. I've spent a good chunk of today running around on the phone, filling out forms, and otherwise shuffling papers. At this rate, I think my chances depend entirely on CCAC needing warm bodies in classes to foot their utility bill, but I'm giving it a shot. I'll pick up Microbiology over the Summer, at any rate.
Really, I wouldn't mind finishing my English degree, but I'm not even sure where I stand with my requirements on that, given how grandly I fucked up my last couple of semesters at MAC, and there is the distance to consider.
I tested out my new GPS (Roomful Express was handing out free ones with a minimum purchase which I surpassed), and it works much better than VZ Navigator. It got me from my place to Vicki's and back to my place via Randy's (the latter on a slightly more direct route than I had been taking). I now really, really want to take a road trip somewhere.
I went with Jay up to Penn State Beaver where he has been accepted ("You should apply to Penn State with me!" "I really do like beaver, I've told you, but not that much." "Oh, you went there!" "I had to, if only just the once." This? Is the level of our conversations. Not exactly highbrow, about 12-year-old humor. <3 ) and find myself really wanting to go back to school.
I also fell madly and inexplicably in love with bridges, their architecture and the physics of them. The route to PSB passes through an area that is/was heavily industrialized -- full of factories, train yards, and mills -- and a couple of the railroad bridges were definitely worth closer examination and photography. Also, Pittsburgh is a City of Bridges, given our three rivers, so there are lots of examples to be had in the area. I chose McConnells partly for its covered bridge. I've been reading a lot of Wikipedia bridge-related articles. Etc.
I still haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, but a few numbers from the soundtrack really make me want to attend a good drum circle. Not that I've really been, apart from that once.
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Since tossing this entry up on Facebook, I've made progress on #2.
I popped over to CCAC and found that the application for their LPN -> RN program is due... on the 20th. I wasn't even thinking about an immediate deadline, just that I would check the program out. I've spent a good chunk of today running around on the phone, filling out forms, and otherwise shuffling papers. At this rate, I think my chances depend entirely on CCAC needing warm bodies in classes to foot their utility bill, but I'm giving it a shot. I'll pick up Microbiology over the Summer, at any rate.
Really, I wouldn't mind finishing my English degree, but I'm not even sure where I stand with my requirements on that, given how grandly I fucked up my last couple of semesters at MAC, and there is the distance to consider.