Melting Rysicle
So I can already tell I am not going to be very good at keeping this thing up dated. When I am in a bad mood the last thing I want to do is get online and talk about it. When i am in a good mood i usually have other things i am excited to do. Oh well. It will last as long as it can.
The beginning of this week kinda blew. Especially Monday. Everything was just going wrong. But then things looked up. I found out that historically the pass mark for Exam 3 is around 50 points (this is raw score, not percentage). According to the preliminary answer key I got around 58. So unless they jack up the score to above that, I probably passed! This is really good because I failed Exam 2 last spring (totally forgot a new portion was going to be on it). If I fail Exam 3 that will really put me behind. However, if I passed it I can retake Exam 2 (the material i hadn't learned was on Exam 3) and Exam 4 in the spring. Then it will be like i never failed that one! Awesome, right.
Lets see.... I am trying to start exercising again since my exam is over. Really, i like to exercise. I feel better, sleep more soundly, bad for me food doesn't taste as good. But apparently I am fragile. I ran on Monday. Not a lot. Just over a mile. I warmed up first and cooled down afterwards. Yet my ankle that I hurt last summer playing racketball has been hurting like a bitch since tuesday. Part might be because of the cold weather (it hurts more after being outside) and part might be that I am wearing shoes with no ankle support during work (it hurts less when I take my shoes off). Either way I haven't even attempted to run since. I have been doing the exercise bike since that doesn't hurt. But I know that only provides a good workout for only so long. Especially since i am limited in how long I can stay on the bike by my work schedule. I am trying to work out a weight lifting routine. I just don't know which exercises I want to do. I mean I know some (push ups, pull ups, leg press, calf raises) but am having trouble narrowing down past that.
Today was a major success for me at work. I inherited this project that the person before had been doing wrong. For a very long time. He just decided not to do part of it. The hard part of course. And nobody checked behind him. So when I got it, they figured out what he hadn't been doing so it became my job to do it. When was not very easy since I had no idea how. Now, 4 months later, I finally figured it out and for the first time had a completely correct report :) Trust me, this is big for me. It is the first time that I was able to solve a problem and set up a system so that instead of taking me a full week to do the project, now it will take me about a day.
Oh and a reference to my subject. Although we have had snow and sleet up here in the past week I haven't had heat in my apartment. I thought I had heat. My thermostat is programmable so I set the temp cooling while I am at work. I kept thinking that it just hadn't heated up all the way by the time I got home. As an experiment I set it to be 65 at all times. Two days later, I hadn't seen the temp be above 55. I finally emailed my landlord. I figure he hadn't lit my pilot light although he thought he had, or it blew out. Either way, when I got home I found that i have heat! Good thing with Sarah and the dog coming. I didn't think it was that terribly bad, although the cold was getting a little old, but they dont' handle frigid temps very well.
I guess that was a pretty good update. I have to go get things together. I am flying down to NC tommorrow. Sarah rented a car one way so that we could get all of her stuff up here this weekend. I am very excited!
The beginning of this week kinda blew. Especially Monday. Everything was just going wrong. But then things looked up. I found out that historically the pass mark for Exam 3 is around 50 points (this is raw score, not percentage). According to the preliminary answer key I got around 58. So unless they jack up the score to above that, I probably passed! This is really good because I failed Exam 2 last spring (totally forgot a new portion was going to be on it). If I fail Exam 3 that will really put me behind. However, if I passed it I can retake Exam 2 (the material i hadn't learned was on Exam 3) and Exam 4 in the spring. Then it will be like i never failed that one! Awesome, right.
Lets see.... I am trying to start exercising again since my exam is over. Really, i like to exercise. I feel better, sleep more soundly, bad for me food doesn't taste as good. But apparently I am fragile. I ran on Monday. Not a lot. Just over a mile. I warmed up first and cooled down afterwards. Yet my ankle that I hurt last summer playing racketball has been hurting like a bitch since tuesday. Part might be because of the cold weather (it hurts more after being outside) and part might be that I am wearing shoes with no ankle support during work (it hurts less when I take my shoes off). Either way I haven't even attempted to run since. I have been doing the exercise bike since that doesn't hurt. But I know that only provides a good workout for only so long. Especially since i am limited in how long I can stay on the bike by my work schedule. I am trying to work out a weight lifting routine. I just don't know which exercises I want to do. I mean I know some (push ups, pull ups, leg press, calf raises) but am having trouble narrowing down past that.
Today was a major success for me at work. I inherited this project that the person before had been doing wrong. For a very long time. He just decided not to do part of it. The hard part of course. And nobody checked behind him. So when I got it, they figured out what he hadn't been doing so it became my job to do it. When was not very easy since I had no idea how. Now, 4 months later, I finally figured it out and for the first time had a completely correct report :) Trust me, this is big for me. It is the first time that I was able to solve a problem and set up a system so that instead of taking me a full week to do the project, now it will take me about a day.
Oh and a reference to my subject. Although we have had snow and sleet up here in the past week I haven't had heat in my apartment. I thought I had heat. My thermostat is programmable so I set the temp cooling while I am at work. I kept thinking that it just hadn't heated up all the way by the time I got home. As an experiment I set it to be 65 at all times. Two days later, I hadn't seen the temp be above 55. I finally emailed my landlord. I figure he hadn't lit my pilot light although he thought he had, or it blew out. Either way, when I got home I found that i have heat! Good thing with Sarah and the dog coming. I didn't think it was that terribly bad, although the cold was getting a little old, but they dont' handle frigid temps very well.
I guess that was a pretty good update. I have to go get things together. I am flying down to NC tommorrow. Sarah rented a car one way so that we could get all of her stuff up here this weekend. I am very excited!