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I biked around for a while today. It was one of the first nice days of the year that I could ride around without freezing my ass off. The last two days here were in the high 60s but I had to work and couldn't get outside to enjoy the weather. The roads today were very dusty and dirty, which gets in your mouth after a while and all over your face. I was suprised at how good of condition my bike was in after sitting in the basement all winter. I guess keeping it inside was what mattered.
I've seen everyone else I know getting to the gym lately and figured I was only fooling myself and better give it a shot myself. After a month and a half I am feeling better and seeing some weight loss for once. I was going to stop come summertime so I can get out and run but if I keep seeing visible improvement what's the point? I am getting less cheap so it's not a huge loss and I guilt myself into going on my days off. (Barely any chance of going on days I'm working).
I feel like after I got out of college I pretty much escaped from society, everyone I know, took off, and forgot how to do everything I enjoyed, like play the piano, and get out and be social. Getting away was nice, and we're going back in May, but I am not sure that I would end up here doing what I am now. Outside of coworkers I know about two other people in town. I hear a lot about how once you get out of school, it's a lot harder to meet people and I can see where that's coming from.
I took the Chem GRE last year, did terrible, and I can't get the motivation to study for the retake in April. Chemistry pays the bills for now, but I have a poor relationship with it. If I was in a subcategory doing work on something that I truly enjoyed, like food chemistry or botany then I would be able to handle it better, but I'm burdened with the desire to be creative and I can't get that when I wake up, repeat the same motions for 12 hours, and go home exhausted. Everyone at my job knows that even though we need a degree to work there, we're not really using anything we learned in college and instead follow the same basic wet chemistry motions. Things will get better, I hope.
The car I took drivers training in so many years ago is sitting out front, broken transmission, for sale. At least now I get a chance to pick the vehicle that I would want instead of getting a hand-me-down.
I've seen everyone else I know getting to the gym lately and figured I was only fooling myself and better give it a shot myself. After a month and a half I am feeling better and seeing some weight loss for once. I was going to stop come summertime so I can get out and run but if I keep seeing visible improvement what's the point? I am getting less cheap so it's not a huge loss and I guilt myself into going on my days off. (Barely any chance of going on days I'm working).
I feel like after I got out of college I pretty much escaped from society, everyone I know, took off, and forgot how to do everything I enjoyed, like play the piano, and get out and be social. Getting away was nice, and we're going back in May, but I am not sure that I would end up here doing what I am now. Outside of coworkers I know about two other people in town. I hear a lot about how once you get out of school, it's a lot harder to meet people and I can see where that's coming from.
I took the Chem GRE last year, did terrible, and I can't get the motivation to study for the retake in April. Chemistry pays the bills for now, but I have a poor relationship with it. If I was in a subcategory doing work on something that I truly enjoyed, like food chemistry or botany then I would be able to handle it better, but I'm burdened with the desire to be creative and I can't get that when I wake up, repeat the same motions for 12 hours, and go home exhausted. Everyone at my job knows that even though we need a degree to work there, we're not really using anything we learned in college and instead follow the same basic wet chemistry motions. Things will get better, I hope.
The car I took drivers training in so many years ago is sitting out front, broken transmission, for sale. At least now I get a chance to pick the vehicle that I would want instead of getting a hand-me-down.