Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Realization


At EC I’m either running around like a chicken with no head, or I’m doing nothing…at all. 
 
What I haven’t realized yet is whether that’s because of me or the teachers.

For the past three weeks, I haven’t had that much work to do at all. Ok, so there has been Spanish homework every single night (one night I did it entirely in French…), but beyond that I’ve had no papers assigned, no questions to answer. Just some reading assignments. I could easily keep my head above everything, even with seven tap classes, Circle K, Salvation Army, SAB meetings and work.

And then this week happened.

Monday came, and I got slammed with a Spanish presentation, a Spanish quiz, sociology worksheet, sociology observations and writing a paper based on said observations, making a board game based on Sigmund Freud, and a pop quiz in a level 3000 class. And then I also had Encore, and the meetings and work that were enumerated before. Woo. I’m tired just from reading that. 

So yeah. I am running around like a chicken. Or a gerbil. I don’t really know anymore.

Monday I got the observations done (I watched an EC men’s soccer game and called it research—not bad, huh?), along with most of the worksheet and wrote out the presentation. So that’s put me in a great place for today. Assuming that I can fake a Spanish accent. 

Here goes nothing!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Bye Bye Summer

Summers over. It makes me kind of sad actually. It’s more than the usual feeling of getting back into a routine for every day. This summer was definitely one of the most relaxed ones that I’ve ever had. That doesn’t mean it was relaxing though. I did a lot, even though I wasn’t working a formal job.

I considered my job for the summer to be losing weight. And it worked. I ended up dropping 30 pounds through changes to my diet (thanks to the structure of Weight Watchers), and exercising more. For the past couple of weeks, I have been running two miles a day, lifting weights, and walking two miles a day as well. And that was on top of all the running around that I normally do.

My mom had her hip replaced this summer, so I was basically in charge of the post operative care. That meant running to the Pharmacy every day (they pretty much know me by sight now), supermarket shopping, cleaning, laundry, and the like. So it was basically like living in a dorm room, except caring for two people. And it was only for about a month.

But I did manage to do some fun things too. I managed to see two Broadway shows for less than $60 altogether. We had orchestra seats for both shows. The first one we saw was ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ with Daniel Radcliff. It was a very good show, and we got $20 front row seats. What could be better?

Then, I went to see ‘Catch Me if You Can’ because it was closing. We got $20 row E seats. It was amazing. I think I need to see the movie now though.

I also went hiking. I cannot even begin to describe how beautiful the views were. It made getting stuck between rocks worth it.

And then, probably not even a week later, I went to my friend’s brother’s Rock Camp Concert. I swear, that kid will be famous some day. He can play the drums like nobody’s business. Later on, on that exact same day, that same friend and I went to an Improv Comedy show. It was the second time that I had seen it, and luck of luck, I got called up on stage to participate in a skit.

I was a gopher paleontologist that smokes baby harp seals. I think that warrants the look I was giving.

Those are the pictorial highlights of my summer. Oh. And the fact that I did yoga too. But I was too busy being upside down to be able to get a picture of that. Suffice it to say that it was great, and it’s something that I would do again in a heartbeat.

Maybe a potential Term II class?