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There's a ton of stuff swimming around in my head. It's got to come out, but there is no real order to it. So, here it goes...
This presidential election has GOT to end. I'm sick to death of the ads, the empty promises that will be forgotten as soon as whomever gets elected is sworn in. There isn't a decent candidate out there in any party, and all they're doing now is bickering about who's done a better job with the bailout package over the last 10 days or so. It makes moving to Canada seem like a better (at least temporarily) option.
While the bailout is on my mind, I'm really disgusted that the federal government put us into this predicament in the first place, now they expect US to bail them back out. Where are they when people are losing houses, facing unemployment, and being gouged everytime we go to the gas station??? Nobody in DC seems to understand the meaning of the word BUDGET, and that the word implies spending only what you have. I don't have $22,924 to give them for my portion of that. And who asked for (AND GOT) my permission to spend that much of MY money? NOBODY.
I had a weird phenomenon happen in diff eq today...my professor gave us an "anonymous" survey to fill out as to why the grades in the class were soooo low on our first test. I haven't even read the whole survey thing yet, because I'm not sure what to say. I worked my rear off, and apparently did better than a majority of my classmates, who earned 50% or less. And I only managed a 60. Whoa. My initial thought is that 50 minutes for a 10+ problem test is just a tiny bit not enough time. For me, anyway. My other thought is just to give us a way to build up some serious points, because I really, really don't want to retake diff eq next semester because my instructor has no interest in curving grades. But how do you tactfully cover that???
Since my half is over, I'm focusing on hill work and speed training. I've broken the distances I want to run, so now my goal is to start dropping my times. I miss having the half looming over my head as a way to keep training. I am definitely running the Akron half again next year, but that's 11 months and two weeks away. I do better with shorter term goals. :-)
Ever since my grandma died three weeks ago, I've been thinking about a lot of people who have been part of my life and for whatever reason are no longer around. It makes me sad to think that my dad's been gone for twice as long as he was here in my lifespan. My grandma lived her life on her terms, which is okay, except that she missed out on most of the lives of 4 grandkids who are all pretty amazing people. It's kind of hard to miss her, but in some respects I still do.
I guess I'm kind of out of steam now, that's probably not a bad thing. I've still got my hands full with school, running, and church obligations. But for now, I'd just like to nap for about 3 days, with no homework or work, or anything demanding my time.
This presidential election has GOT to end. I'm sick to death of the ads, the empty promises that will be forgotten as soon as whomever gets elected is sworn in. There isn't a decent candidate out there in any party, and all they're doing now is bickering about who's done a better job with the bailout package over the last 10 days or so. It makes moving to Canada seem like a better (at least temporarily) option.
While the bailout is on my mind, I'm really disgusted that the federal government put us into this predicament in the first place, now they expect US to bail them back out. Where are they when people are losing houses, facing unemployment, and being gouged everytime we go to the gas station??? Nobody in DC seems to understand the meaning of the word BUDGET, and that the word implies spending only what you have. I don't have $22,924 to give them for my portion of that. And who asked for (AND GOT) my permission to spend that much of MY money? NOBODY.
I had a weird phenomenon happen in diff eq today...my professor gave us an "anonymous" survey to fill out as to why the grades in the class were soooo low on our first test. I haven't even read the whole survey thing yet, because I'm not sure what to say. I worked my rear off, and apparently did better than a majority of my classmates, who earned 50% or less. And I only managed a 60. Whoa. My initial thought is that 50 minutes for a 10+ problem test is just a tiny bit not enough time. For me, anyway. My other thought is just to give us a way to build up some serious points, because I really, really don't want to retake diff eq next semester because my instructor has no interest in curving grades. But how do you tactfully cover that???
Since my half is over, I'm focusing on hill work and speed training. I've broken the distances I want to run, so now my goal is to start dropping my times. I miss having the half looming over my head as a way to keep training. I am definitely running the Akron half again next year, but that's 11 months and two weeks away. I do better with shorter term goals. :-)
Ever since my grandma died three weeks ago, I've been thinking about a lot of people who have been part of my life and for whatever reason are no longer around. It makes me sad to think that my dad's been gone for twice as long as he was here in my lifespan. My grandma lived her life on her terms, which is okay, except that she missed out on most of the lives of 4 grandkids who are all pretty amazing people. It's kind of hard to miss her, but in some respects I still do.
I guess I'm kind of out of steam now, that's probably not a bad thing. I've still got my hands full with school, running, and church obligations. But for now, I'd just like to nap for about 3 days, with no homework or work, or anything demanding my time.