Game Plan

Today I played in my first basketball game. It was supposed to be in a "non-competitive" league, but the other team was basically an all-star team. I actually made a basket but mainly spent most of the time I was in the game running up and down the court. It was fun, but I am a bit sore. I also bid on some shoes on eBay that I have been following for a week. I was the high bidder until there was 7 seconds left and then I lost.

Wake Up Call

Today I woke up in a bit of a panic. I didn't know what day it was, but I felt like I had somewhere to be and that I had slept past the time I was supposed to be somewhere. It eventually dawned on me that it was Saturday, so I fell back asleep. Rather ironically, I woke up again much later than the original time I woke up and ended up sleeping past when I wanted to and was late to a pickup game of soccer.

Sleep In

Today my earliest class was cancelled. It was nice to be able to sleep in. It is also nice that it is Friday, which means I can sleep in tomorrow as well. My cough is still bothering me, but I am starting to feel better. Hopefully it will go away soon, but in the mean time it gives me a good excuse to sleep in.

Middle Ground

Today I got back my calculus test. I really wasn't sure how well I did on it. I thought I could have gotten anywhere from an A to a C. I ended up getting right in the middle. I didn't do that bad, it is just a bit frustrating all the points I got marked down were for simple computation errors and improper labeling. It just shows I was in too much of a hurry which potentially shows we weren't given enough time to finish the test.

Started or Ended

Today was a fairly normal school day and by normal I mean nothing crazy happened yet. It is weird because it still seems like classes just started, but midterms are almost approaching. This means they are almost half over. Well, or half started depending on how you look at it. Either way, they didn't just start even if it feels that way.

Tested

Today I had my first calculus test. I don't know how I feel about it. I felt like I sort of knew what I was trying to do, but wouldn't be surprised if I made mistakes in my computation. What I do know is that I am happy to be have gotten it out of the way.

Feeling Better

Today is Monday. After getting quite a bit of sleep over the weekend, I feel like I might have finally reached the bottom sickness-wise, and hopefully will start the road towards recovery. I am really tired of having a sore throat. I also have my first calculus test tomorrow, which I am worried about. Hopefully I will feel better after studying, but I don't think that will be the case. I just hope that I don't feel worse.

Assignment Again Attempted

Today I found out the assignment for calculus I did the other day was really due tomorrow. This meant I had to do the whole thing over again because I turned it in when I was supposed to have turned in another assignment. At least this time, I actually sort of knew what I was at least trying to do for most of the problems unlike last time. I have my first calculus test on Tuesday. I wish I felt ready for it, but there is a lot of studying I should do before that time and not much time to do that studying. Why am I taking calculus again?

Half Empty or Half Full?

Today I slept in. Perhaps not much later than I normally sleep in on a Saturday, but I definitely didn't stay up as late as I normally do last night either. Some time ago, I made a comment about how I thought I could eat a whole carton of ice cream. I was challenged to live up to my declaration, and attempted to do so last night. I ate half a carton, but had just finished a big dinner and didn't know if I could go all the way. I will have to try again another day.

Math Lessons

Today is Friday. The weekend is much needed. It has been a very long week and my body and mind need some rest. Late last night, my calculus homework felt exceptionally difficult, as in, the teacher never taught us any of this sort of difficult. Turns out, I was doing the wrong homework in the wrong section and actually hadn't been taught the stuff on the homework. I wish this made me feel better but it only means I failed the last homework assignment.

New Bride

Today in my monster's class the teacher, who also happens to be an ordained minster, 'married' us to someone in the class for an experiment of sorts. In our new partnerships, we were supposed to discuss what type of children we wanted as a couple. My new found bride and I decided we wanted to have a naturally born child rather than dabble in genetic engineering. It was a bit of an awkward conversation. I never even got my new wife's name, but I do know what kind of children we want.

Iceland?

Today I turned in my essay about the book on finding happiness. I reached the conclusion that happiness is not really based on geography but more on personal enlightenment. However, when my teacher asked people where the happiest place on earth was, almost everyone answered Iceland. I was shocked and really worried my entire analysis of the book was wrong. I'm still not sure if my teacher is going to agree with my analysis, but she said the 'correct' answer is up for individual interpretation. I hope she doesn't grade my interpretation on finding happiness too harshly, that would make me the opposite of happy.

unHappy

Today was a long day. Last night I finally finished reading the book about finding the happiest place on earth. Most all of today, besides time spent in class, was spent writing an essay about the book. I will be so much happier when I am done writing about all this happiness. Oh, and I did terrible on a calculus quiz. My calculus skills aren't too bad, I'm just a bit rusty at algebra which is needed in order to properly use the calculus skills.

One of Those Days

Today was a long day. Most all of today was spent on homework. The few breaks that didn't involve homework were no fun at all because I felt guilty for not working on my homework. I have a paper due on Wednesday about a book I am still trying to finish. It is about finding the happiest place on earth and real happiness, which is ironic because the book bring no happiness at all to me when I have to read it, actually quite the opposite. Unfortunately, most of tomorrow will probably involve homework when I am not in class as well. Such is the life of a college student at times.

Unday

Today doesn't feel like a Sunday since I don't have class tomorrow. However, I need the 'extra' day to get work done. I have a book I need to finish reading and write a paper about, another book I need to start reading, probably other parts of other books I am supposed to read and calculus homework to finish up. On top of all that, fun must be had which makes it hard to get all the other stuff done.

Rude Awakening

Today I woke up way earlier than planned to the sound of a fire alarm. When I opened my door, I found our living room to be filled with smoke. Turns out, my suite mate caused the alarm by burning some noodles on the stove. However, after the rude awakening and after a few more hours of sleep, today turned out to be a good day.

Weakend

Today is Friday and there are no classes on Monday. Usually in a situation like this, I would be feeling really good right now. However, my sore throat is only getting worse. I am starting to wonder at what point I should get it checked out. Hopefully it gets better this weekend. While I suppose it is better to not feel well over a weekend then during the week when I have classes, it sure doesn't sound like a very fun weekend.

Low Noon

Today I didn't have classes until noon. I hoped to get up early and work on homework or go the rec center or ideally both, but I didn't end up having enough time to do either. Thankfully, I was able to finish all my homework after classes, and it didn't really matter that I wasn't very productive this morning. I still have a cough, and it is sort of dragging my down physically and possibly even emotionally.

Bad Monster

Today was fairly uneventful. Wednesdays are the only day of the week I don't have my calculus class. However, I still had quite a bit of calculus homework due tomorrow that I had to work on. In my monsters class we had to draw a monster. My sister and I drew a monster, but it really didn't look very scary. I guess it isn't a terrible thing to not be able to draw things that are scary. I think in my case I just can't draw at all.

Rough Cough

Today and yesterday, I have had a sore throat. Other than that, I have felt fine but the sore throat kind of drags the rest of me down and is annoying. It felt like Monday all over again because today was miserable with a sore throat and constantly feeling like I needed to cough. It is especially annoying with all the fear of the Swine Flu, so I don't want to cough and have people freak out.I have been drinking tea and hopefully will feel better soon.

First Fill in the Blank

Today was the first Monday of the quarter. I feel I keep talking about how things are the first fill-in-the-blank of the quarter. However, I will soon run out of such firsts. For a Monday, especially the first one of the quarter, today wasn't too bad. I was a bit tired, but that is expected on a Monday and most days I have to get up before 10:00am in general. I had my first calculus quiz and did alright but probably should have scored 100% if I didn't make a stupid mistake by recording the x coordinate instead of the y coordinate on an answer.

Crazy Game

Today I watched one of the craziest football games I have ever seen. The game went back and forth and a missed field goal at the end of regulation sent the game into overtime tied 45-45. The team I wanted to win eventually did. It was an emotional roller coaster ride. It reminded me of life. Which reminds me, I have homework I need to finish.

Sleepy Saturday

Today was the first Saturday of the quarter. Rather fittingly, I slept in quite a bit later than I hoped. However, I found out I didn't have as much homework as I thought this weekend so it sort of balanced things out. I also realized I am getting rusty at ping pong, and need to fix that problem soon.

Full Friday

Today was the first day of the quarter I had all my classes in one day. It only happens on Mondays and Fridays. After a short week of classes, I am pretty happy with my schedule and the classes I am in. I think they will all be interesting, although calculus mainly in a challenging sort of way. We'll see how I feel about the classes once the homework demand starts to increase.

Godzilla Lecture

Today was my third day of classes, and the first day I had an assignment due. So far at least, classes are going well. I am starting to form a bit of a daily routine, which helps me stay productive with my time. In my monsters class today, we spent 40 minutes evaluating and computing the size of Godzilla based on movie footage. It was really interesting and fun. I feel like I am going to really enjoy that class.

Predestined Politics

Today I had my political geography class for the first time. According to the teacher and where I sat in the class today compared to resource distribution in the world, the best grade I can get in the class is a C. Hopefully that isn't the case.

New Classes

Today was my first day of classes. As far as first days go, it wasn't too bad. I don't really like my Calculus class, but that isn't a surprise. I've been out of math for over a year, but need to take this class if I want to minor in economics, which I should. The other class I had today is about monsters, I think it will be a really fun class. Tomorrow I have my political science class for the first time. After a short workout, I made a much needed visit to the hot tub this afternoon.

Mistaken

Today started with some disturbing news. For the past month, I thought classes started on Wednesday. However, this morning, I awoke to a text from my sister saying that classes actually start tomorrow. It wasn't exactly how I wanted to start the day. I was able to recover, well not quite mentally, but otherwise. In other words, I went to the bookstore and spent a lot of money I didn't want to spend on books I don't want to read.

Student Again

Today I got a ride back to college. It was nice being home with the family, and I miss them already. However, it was really nice to see some of my college friends again. I already went over to a friend's house to watch a movie and eat pizza. I also ate some chinese takeout, I feel like a college student again.

Last Day Home

Today was my last full day home during this break. Overall, it has been nice to be home. It has been really nice to be with the whole family. However, I am looking forward to returning to school. Well, at least back to college, I'm not really looking forward to classes much. It will be good to be in some sort of a routine again which classes and school work will necessitate.

Run Fun

Today was the first day of the new year. Even though the weather wasn't very nice, I wanted to start the new year off by running. It was also part of my resolution to run, not necessarily to run more, because I run quite a bit, but to keep up the habit and hopefully continue to enjoy it. And if I could enjoy running through the rain, wind and cold today after being tired from staying up late last night, then it was a good start to my resolution.