I really don't know if I'm getting enough sleep. I think I am, but there are times when I'm not so sure. I mean, I've only been on 3rd shift for a week and a half, and honestly, I'd have to say it's gone smoother than I expected. But that doesn't mean i'm there yet. Plus, i haven't really gotten any homework. So i can sleep pretty much when I want. I generally sleep between 12-7pm. Those are the best hours. But when I have something to do, i'll have to adjust it.
Example 1.1
Mike signed up to play with a bagpipe band. THis band practices WEdnesdays from 7-9pm. In addition to this, Mike has a mandatory managers meeting to attend for Fall Softball at 6:30pm. Now, I don't think Mike can do both. But, he's still going to be running about just before a long shift and class the next day. Example 1.1 suggests this is going to catch up to him.
Example 1.2 (i know too many math textbooks!)
After this long day, thursday isn't looking any better. Mike has a softball game at 6:30pm in Westlake. If it's not rained out. Assuming worst case scenario. Mike will sleep from 12-5:30pm at the parents house, and then head to westlake for the game. Get back around 8 and have time to eat and nap some more. Or do homework. Who knows??
It seems more and more that my parents house is my best base of operations. It's much more convienent then the Islander. Which begs me to ask: Should I have stayed in Lakewood? I think yes. Even closer to downtown is looking like a pretty good option. Somewhere I could just use the rapid. I'm thinking if it weren't for softball, I could probably subsist on public transportation. That would be an impressive feat.
I also tried to do homework instead of blogging, but the online reserve hadn't been updated with the readings yet. So I continue to blog! I need new topics. Does anyone want to travel this weekend??? I know I do!!! Big time!! 3 day weekend!! woot woot!!! Anyone?? CHicago?? Louisville?? New York???? Somewhere I don't even know about! I need to travel. Boosts the morale!!
8.30.2006
8.29.2006
i'm on a roll
Hey,
i might never stop updating the blog if I continue to come downtown this early. I walk around a bit and enjoy the scenery, but today it's been drizzling steadily, so no playtime for me. And generally, the walk from tower city to CSU is enough outside activity. I should be doing homework! But it's only the 2nd day of classes, so i'll procrastinate a bit longer.
My first math class was not intimidating at all, and I'm getting the impression, I might make it through this. I think this first class will be a good indicator of where I stand in this math major. I just need to work on a routine of studying and doing homework. I don't anticipate missing any class. So, that's one potential problem eliminated. My class cutting days are over!
The sad news is, the white water rafting trip is temporarily on hold. It's a good thing I held off making the reservations. I've got a couple people who are definitely willing to go, but one or two had to back out for other obligations. And the fact that our softball season is on hold indefinitely, doesn't help. So, I'm hoping to push it back a couple weeks, but who knows. That changes the trip dynamic quite a bit. I don't see it getting any bigger or attracting more people, but we'll see. I do have my secret weapon, to entice people, but that's going to be a carefully considered option. I hope this is adding a bit of mystique and intrigue about it, and makes you wonder, that I am up to. Let me tell you: you should be wondering. It could be something you don't even know about. Something you're missing out on.
And the quest continues!
i might never stop updating the blog if I continue to come downtown this early. I walk around a bit and enjoy the scenery, but today it's been drizzling steadily, so no playtime for me. And generally, the walk from tower city to CSU is enough outside activity. I should be doing homework! But it's only the 2nd day of classes, so i'll procrastinate a bit longer.
My first math class was not intimidating at all, and I'm getting the impression, I might make it through this. I think this first class will be a good indicator of where I stand in this math major. I just need to work on a routine of studying and doing homework. I don't anticipate missing any class. So, that's one potential problem eliminated. My class cutting days are over!
The sad news is, the white water rafting trip is temporarily on hold. It's a good thing I held off making the reservations. I've got a couple people who are definitely willing to go, but one or two had to back out for other obligations. And the fact that our softball season is on hold indefinitely, doesn't help. So, I'm hoping to push it back a couple weeks, but who knows. That changes the trip dynamic quite a bit. I don't see it getting any bigger or attracting more people, but we'll see. I do have my secret weapon, to entice people, but that's going to be a carefully considered option. I hope this is adding a bit of mystique and intrigue about it, and makes you wonder, that I am up to. Let me tell you: you should be wondering. It could be something you don't even know about. Something you're missing out on.
And the quest continues!
8.28.2006
Back to School
Hey hey hey!
And I will be sitting in class in a little over an hour for the first time in about 3 years. I don't really count my short tenure at Kent State because that was laughable. Very disppointing. So, I'm biding my time. And this is how I will probably bide my time. I realized people probably don't read this cause I update it on average once a month. That's not enough to keep the viewers entertained. So I will be keeping this a little more up to date.
THe day has been pretty good so far. I actually like my schedule as I have it. I just have to make sure that I don't lose out on sleep. That's my only fear. I work from about 9:30pm-6am, then I grabbed a bite to eat at the 'rents house and hoped on the Rapid to wander downtown.
Checklist:
Get downtown
Get school books
FIgure out where my classes are
DO what ever I want with extra time.
Done and Done!
After class, I'll take a nap. On this monday, I am trying Yoga. Tuesday and Thursday evenings I have softball and Wednesday nights I have pipe band practice. I also have to squeeze in practice on the bagpipes through out the week. That'll be tough without getting shot. My weekends are all day fridays/saturdays. Which I enjoy because I can actually do stuff friday nights. Although the last 3 fridays have been hell. I might have complained about that in my last blog entry.
I bumped into a high school friend on the rapid. It was good catching up with her. Walked her to work, then headed to school. I walked from tower city to CSU. it's a walk I plan on making everyday. Hopefully the exercise will help. But I can always take the bus for free. So we'll see how lazy I get. i might need to invest in an umbrella! I hope to see the many people I know going to CSU around campus such as: my sister, my cousin Nora, Seher, Janelle, Janet, and whoever else I have forgotten or did not know about.
I'm out for now. Adios!
And I will be sitting in class in a little over an hour for the first time in about 3 years. I don't really count my short tenure at Kent State because that was laughable. Very disppointing. So, I'm biding my time. And this is how I will probably bide my time. I realized people probably don't read this cause I update it on average once a month. That's not enough to keep the viewers entertained. So I will be keeping this a little more up to date.
THe day has been pretty good so far. I actually like my schedule as I have it. I just have to make sure that I don't lose out on sleep. That's my only fear. I work from about 9:30pm-6am, then I grabbed a bite to eat at the 'rents house and hoped on the Rapid to wander downtown.
Checklist:
Get downtown
Get school books
FIgure out where my classes are
DO what ever I want with extra time.
Done and Done!
After class, I'll take a nap. On this monday, I am trying Yoga. Tuesday and Thursday evenings I have softball and Wednesday nights I have pipe band practice. I also have to squeeze in practice on the bagpipes through out the week. That'll be tough without getting shot. My weekends are all day fridays/saturdays. Which I enjoy because I can actually do stuff friday nights. Although the last 3 fridays have been hell. I might have complained about that in my last blog entry.
I bumped into a high school friend on the rapid. It was good catching up with her. Walked her to work, then headed to school. I walked from tower city to CSU. it's a walk I plan on making everyday. Hopefully the exercise will help. But I can always take the bus for free. So we'll see how lazy I get. i might need to invest in an umbrella! I hope to see the many people I know going to CSU around campus such as: my sister, my cousin Nora, Seher, Janelle, Janet, and whoever else I have forgotten or did not know about.
I'm out for now. Adios!
8.26.2006
my social life has no pulse
Man, i need to find more to do on friday nights!
I started third shift this week, and it went well, except for the fact that I can't sleep right now. I'm normally working. So, I might be keeping this schedule through the weekends! Yuk!!!!!!!!
I have a lot going on now, and it'll just changed in a week. It's taken one week to have a whoe new dynamic in my life. I'm going through the end of summer softball to the start of fall softball. Not so big of a deal, just different days I play softball.
More importantly the switching to 3rd shift and the starting of classes. It's a change, i don't know if it's for the best yet. I mean yeah, going to school is good. Aslong as I kick schools ass. That will be a true test of my mettle. not necessarily because I think a college degree is the ultimate pinnacle, but more to test myself and see if I can really apply myself. Because that is what is holding me back. That is what is stopping me from achieving something great. I need to work my way through this, and if I do, i'll make something happen. Because I'll have a tool i didn't before. I just hope that i can acquire other tools along the way.
I also kind of fell into a pipe band, which will be good, i hope. I wanted to check things out and there I was just piping away with them. Couldn't really keep up with them. but it's good to be back. and this way I'll be playing more regularly. if only i could find a place to practice. NObody like listening to a bagpiper practice.
so i get a lot of time to think on 3rd shift, no one really comes around, i got the stereo playing and i just work. and the more I think about it, and the more i ask myself "what's my purpose? or what am I doing with my life" I don't really come up with anything solid. Slightly depressing. How can it be i can't make that leap into something spectacular? And it seems while I"m looking for that dare to be great situation, i should be slowly building a solid foundation to spring off of, instead of waiting for something to happen. What is that foundation, well most definitely education. College helps, that kind of knowledge is respected in this world. But also education in the human dynamic. I really could learn to do that better. THere seems to be so much knowledge so many conversations I seem to miss because I don't let myself open up. Or maybe I don't know how. and there's the ambiguity. i can't identify the problem, so how can I correct it. am I going to run around constantly not finding the problem, am i doing it because I don't want to find it. don't want to fix it? shirking responsibility. see, i just come up with more questions and less answers. I want to force myself into something. I want to get to where I want to be, without really knowing where that's going. And it doesn't help I let my surroundings dictate my future. that's probably the hardest. I can't separate from my surroundings. I let them dictate my limitations. i talk and I talk about changing. well, i make a good sequel, to be continued...
too tired to check for spelling mistakes, let me know where I goofed!
I started third shift this week, and it went well, except for the fact that I can't sleep right now. I'm normally working. So, I might be keeping this schedule through the weekends! Yuk!!!!!!!!
I have a lot going on now, and it'll just changed in a week. It's taken one week to have a whoe new dynamic in my life. I'm going through the end of summer softball to the start of fall softball. Not so big of a deal, just different days I play softball.
More importantly the switching to 3rd shift and the starting of classes. It's a change, i don't know if it's for the best yet. I mean yeah, going to school is good. Aslong as I kick schools ass. That will be a true test of my mettle. not necessarily because I think a college degree is the ultimate pinnacle, but more to test myself and see if I can really apply myself. Because that is what is holding me back. That is what is stopping me from achieving something great. I need to work my way through this, and if I do, i'll make something happen. Because I'll have a tool i didn't before. I just hope that i can acquire other tools along the way.
I also kind of fell into a pipe band, which will be good, i hope. I wanted to check things out and there I was just piping away with them. Couldn't really keep up with them. but it's good to be back. and this way I'll be playing more regularly. if only i could find a place to practice. NObody like listening to a bagpiper practice.
so i get a lot of time to think on 3rd shift, no one really comes around, i got the stereo playing and i just work. and the more I think about it, and the more i ask myself "what's my purpose? or what am I doing with my life" I don't really come up with anything solid. Slightly depressing. How can it be i can't make that leap into something spectacular? And it seems while I"m looking for that dare to be great situation, i should be slowly building a solid foundation to spring off of, instead of waiting for something to happen. What is that foundation, well most definitely education. College helps, that kind of knowledge is respected in this world. But also education in the human dynamic. I really could learn to do that better. THere seems to be so much knowledge so many conversations I seem to miss because I don't let myself open up. Or maybe I don't know how. and there's the ambiguity. i can't identify the problem, so how can I correct it. am I going to run around constantly not finding the problem, am i doing it because I don't want to find it. don't want to fix it? shirking responsibility. see, i just come up with more questions and less answers. I want to force myself into something. I want to get to where I want to be, without really knowing where that's going. And it doesn't help I let my surroundings dictate my future. that's probably the hardest. I can't separate from my surroundings. I let them dictate my limitations. i talk and I talk about changing. well, i make a good sequel, to be continued...
too tired to check for spelling mistakes, let me know where I goofed!
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