Once Again With Feeling
Today was the first day of my (hopefully) last semester of school. I've only one class to attend this semester (Statistics), an internship to fulfill (having paid for all the hours), and my Master's Comp Exam (to be taken at a date later in this semester).
I would be more enthusiastic, if I wasn't so tired.
Statistics meets Monday and Wednesday in the early evening. After getting tons of messages last week - along with several Pre-Course assignments - I dreaded attending this first class meeting. Of course, it didn't help that I'm fairly certain that two of my upper left ribs are out of alignment and at least one vertebrae in my neck is pinching a nerve. It really causes hell (and a whole lot of pain) when you're lugging a 20lb backpack about a quarter mile with a 3-story stair climb in your path. Class actually went better than I expected, though. My instructor is a visiting professor who used to teach at Bowling Green (in NW Ohio), and one of his sons is at Ohio State. I've decided to look upon these facts as Omens of Good Happenstance for taking this particular class.
Tomorrow, I've got some errands to run in the late morning/early afternoon hours. I probably ought to take it a little easy, though. It's only been three days since I've been up and out of my sick bed. This particular "freak sinus infection" has been a rough one to recover from. I've no doubt that those ribs popped out during one of my coughing or sneezing bouts.
I'm sure that a fair amount of my energies this week will be devoted to learning how to operate my new phone ... which I've managed to successfully turn on and off, make a couple of phone calls, and to score a Spectacular Fail when it came to using the hands-free earpiece today. (Somehow, I used the earpiece correctly on Sunday, even managed to Voice Dial the home phone. Today ... I just ended up talking to myself in the car and hoping my cellular carrier isn't really just a front for Cybermen.)
I'm not planning on making plans for this semester. Partly because of the success rate with all the plans I had for this past Summer. Partly because I just need to focus on the tasks that will secure my degree in December. I'm trying to look at this attitude as more of a Zen kind of thing, than a Wimping Out kind of thing.
I would be more enthusiastic, if I wasn't so tired.
Statistics meets Monday and Wednesday in the early evening. After getting tons of messages last week - along with several Pre-Course assignments - I dreaded attending this first class meeting. Of course, it didn't help that I'm fairly certain that two of my upper left ribs are out of alignment and at least one vertebrae in my neck is pinching a nerve. It really causes hell (and a whole lot of pain) when you're lugging a 20lb backpack about a quarter mile with a 3-story stair climb in your path. Class actually went better than I expected, though. My instructor is a visiting professor who used to teach at Bowling Green (in NW Ohio), and one of his sons is at Ohio State. I've decided to look upon these facts as Omens of Good Happenstance for taking this particular class.
Tomorrow, I've got some errands to run in the late morning/early afternoon hours. I probably ought to take it a little easy, though. It's only been three days since I've been up and out of my sick bed. This particular "freak sinus infection" has been a rough one to recover from. I've no doubt that those ribs popped out during one of my coughing or sneezing bouts.
I'm sure that a fair amount of my energies this week will be devoted to learning how to operate my new phone ... which I've managed to successfully turn on and off, make a couple of phone calls, and to score a Spectacular Fail when it came to using the hands-free earpiece today. (Somehow, I used the earpiece correctly on Sunday, even managed to Voice Dial the home phone. Today ... I just ended up talking to myself in the car and hoping my cellular carrier isn't really just a front for Cybermen.)
I'm not planning on making plans for this semester. Partly because of the success rate with all the plans I had for this past Summer. Partly because I just need to focus on the tasks that will secure my degree in December. I'm trying to look at this attitude as more of a Zen kind of thing, than a Wimping Out kind of thing.