Friday, July 28, 2006
Hot and muggy
Wow the temperature around here is getting hot! The humidity is so high as well.
At times despite the heat I have had the urge to get up and exercise. I try and wait till the evening at least, but I have started running again. After 5 weeks of not doing any running at all I have lapsed somewhat, but I thought I did pretty well considering the heat and humidity. After the run my foot was bothering me, so the healing is still not complete.
Summer semester is over. I did well in my Macroeconomics class. I am not positive that I got an A. I was at 92% before the final, but the final is 1/3 of the grade, so a few too many wrong and I will drop down to a B. Either way it is one class down and 12 more to go before I complete my Associates in Applied Science (Accounting) degree. I am taking 2 of the 12 in the fall semester plus a beginner Japanese class just for fun.
Now that classes are over for a few weeks I am taking a vacation the second week of August. I have kinda aimed at driving down to Florida and doing some sight seeing. This should be interesting as I have never really done anything like this before. All my previous vacations I would spend the week lounging around the house not really doing anything. Now I plan on doing a little snorkling, lounge at the beach doing some people watching, maybe do a bit of shopping, try some local food. I hope to summon enough courage to stop by a few bars and mingle with people while I am there. I might get a bit wild and stop in at a barber and get a trim, maybe even a shave. I think to get the most out of my vacation I will need to interact with people and maybe with the location being so far from home that I will likely never see any of them again it should be easier to deal with them. No repercussions with having to deal with them in the future.
On the other hand, I just noticed GenCon is running like the 11th to 13th, the last part of my vacation. I almost feel like attending GenCon instead, but I feel like that would be shirking the unknown, the uncertainty which is to tell the truth kinda fightening to me. I think if I go to GenCon, the most I will do is make a stop on the way home on Sunday.
I am looking forward to my vacation as it feels like this will be my first real vacation. No being hauled around with the rest of the family, rather I am free to do anything that I want.
At times despite the heat I have had the urge to get up and exercise. I try and wait till the evening at least, but I have started running again. After 5 weeks of not doing any running at all I have lapsed somewhat, but I thought I did pretty well considering the heat and humidity. After the run my foot was bothering me, so the healing is still not complete.
Summer semester is over. I did well in my Macroeconomics class. I am not positive that I got an A. I was at 92% before the final, but the final is 1/3 of the grade, so a few too many wrong and I will drop down to a B. Either way it is one class down and 12 more to go before I complete my Associates in Applied Science (Accounting) degree. I am taking 2 of the 12 in the fall semester plus a beginner Japanese class just for fun.
Now that classes are over for a few weeks I am taking a vacation the second week of August. I have kinda aimed at driving down to Florida and doing some sight seeing. This should be interesting as I have never really done anything like this before. All my previous vacations I would spend the week lounging around the house not really doing anything. Now I plan on doing a little snorkling, lounge at the beach doing some people watching, maybe do a bit of shopping, try some local food. I hope to summon enough courage to stop by a few bars and mingle with people while I am there. I might get a bit wild and stop in at a barber and get a trim, maybe even a shave. I think to get the most out of my vacation I will need to interact with people and maybe with the location being so far from home that I will likely never see any of them again it should be easier to deal with them. No repercussions with having to deal with them in the future.
On the other hand, I just noticed GenCon is running like the 11th to 13th, the last part of my vacation. I almost feel like attending GenCon instead, but I feel like that would be shirking the unknown, the uncertainty which is to tell the truth kinda fightening to me. I think if I go to GenCon, the most I will do is make a stop on the way home on Sunday.
I am looking forward to my vacation as it feels like this will be my first real vacation. No being hauled around with the rest of the family, rather I am free to do anything that I want.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Time for my irregularily scheduled update.
Still chugging along in my Macroeconomics class. Got a Quiz and a Test next week. Class ends in just three more weeks. So with two weeks of break before the fall semester starts I decided to take a week off of work and get out and take an actual vacation.
I don't know what I am going to do exactly, I would like to go somewhere exotic. Maybe drive out and visit the Grand Canyon or something like that. Or maybe go and visit the ocean around Florida, go diving, maybe fishing on the ocean. I just don't know which I would rather do. I have to decide soon or I am going to just putz around the house all week and get nothing interesting done. Even when growing up we never really took any vacations. The closest to an actual vacation that I can remember is when we went to the Greenfield Village in Michigan. It is a village made up of old, historical buildings actually moved to that location. So all the buildings there are actually the original ones. It was pretty neat, but it was like a week long history class, so I don't really count it as a vacation. So I feel it would be a nice treat to go out and just do something new and exciting.
Finally some good movies are coming out. I saw Superman Returns. I thought it was very good and the special effects were pretty cool. I was not blown away by the plot, but some of the action scenes had me feeling some awe. I am looking forward to seeing the new Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest. I really liked the original one and I have heard some people say that the sequel is as good if not better. I am intrigued by A Scanner Darkly or whatever that movie is. It seems to be the off beat type of film that is usually quite interesting. I don't know if it will ever play in a theater near me though so I might have to wait and get it on DVD through Netflix. (I should really get some sort of kickback every time I talk about them.)
I am thinking of taking a full class schedule for the Fall semester. If I can pull it off, I can get my Associates degree in one year. Not too shabby. I also am going to take some Japanese classes so when I eventually get my butt over there I can hopefully be coherent enough to blunder my way around.
In other news, my foot's condition has stagnated. It doesn't seem to be getting better, but it is not really getting worse either. So I still hobble along, but I am able to alternate periodically with normal walking. It is rather frustrating that my foot has not recovered yet.
Despite the foot pain I got tired of just sitting around all day so I have started trying to jog around the block. My foot twinged with every step for a little while, but the pain went away about halfway around. Towards the end though it had enough and was telling me to sit my butt down and rest. At least I was able to get a bit of exercise. I want to get rid of my extra pounds. I totally have the ability to do so, I just gotta put some effort towards it.
I feel like some of my main interests have been shifting in the last few months. I still like anime, but I have been watching much more foreign films. I still have many series to watch sitting on my computer, but with school and such, I have not really watched many of them, I just have not had the desire to sit down and view them.
Lately I have been feeling a bit lonely. I don't know many people and I seldom get to do things with them. All my time with other people seems to be restricted to a few weekly scheduled periods of time. Maybe that is normal, I don't really know, but I feel like I need some friends who will call me up and ask if I want to go with them to see a band, or go check out this restaurant that they heard of. Maybe I need to find a group that does things like that. A established group would also give me more of a nudge to actually go out and do things rather than making up some lame excuse to not attend.
Still chugging along in my Macroeconomics class. Got a Quiz and a Test next week. Class ends in just three more weeks. So with two weeks of break before the fall semester starts I decided to take a week off of work and get out and take an actual vacation.
I don't know what I am going to do exactly, I would like to go somewhere exotic. Maybe drive out and visit the Grand Canyon or something like that. Or maybe go and visit the ocean around Florida, go diving, maybe fishing on the ocean. I just don't know which I would rather do. I have to decide soon or I am going to just putz around the house all week and get nothing interesting done. Even when growing up we never really took any vacations. The closest to an actual vacation that I can remember is when we went to the Greenfield Village in Michigan. It is a village made up of old, historical buildings actually moved to that location. So all the buildings there are actually the original ones. It was pretty neat, but it was like a week long history class, so I don't really count it as a vacation. So I feel it would be a nice treat to go out and just do something new and exciting.
Finally some good movies are coming out. I saw Superman Returns. I thought it was very good and the special effects were pretty cool. I was not blown away by the plot, but some of the action scenes had me feeling some awe. I am looking forward to seeing the new Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest. I really liked the original one and I have heard some people say that the sequel is as good if not better. I am intrigued by A Scanner Darkly or whatever that movie is. It seems to be the off beat type of film that is usually quite interesting. I don't know if it will ever play in a theater near me though so I might have to wait and get it on DVD through Netflix. (I should really get some sort of kickback every time I talk about them.)
I am thinking of taking a full class schedule for the Fall semester. If I can pull it off, I can get my Associates degree in one year. Not too shabby. I also am going to take some Japanese classes so when I eventually get my butt over there I can hopefully be coherent enough to blunder my way around.
In other news, my foot's condition has stagnated. It doesn't seem to be getting better, but it is not really getting worse either. So I still hobble along, but I am able to alternate periodically with normal walking. It is rather frustrating that my foot has not recovered yet.
Despite the foot pain I got tired of just sitting around all day so I have started trying to jog around the block. My foot twinged with every step for a little while, but the pain went away about halfway around. Towards the end though it had enough and was telling me to sit my butt down and rest. At least I was able to get a bit of exercise. I want to get rid of my extra pounds. I totally have the ability to do so, I just gotta put some effort towards it.
I feel like some of my main interests have been shifting in the last few months. I still like anime, but I have been watching much more foreign films. I still have many series to watch sitting on my computer, but with school and such, I have not really watched many of them, I just have not had the desire to sit down and view them.
Lately I have been feeling a bit lonely. I don't know many people and I seldom get to do things with them. All my time with other people seems to be restricted to a few weekly scheduled periods of time. Maybe that is normal, I don't really know, but I feel like I need some friends who will call me up and ask if I want to go with them to see a band, or go check out this restaurant that they heard of. Maybe I need to find a group that does things like that. A established group would also give me more of a nudge to actually go out and do things rather than making up some lame excuse to not attend.
