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Thirty-First of October
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Not As We Are
This world of our’s comes another night and day, but a definite feeling only eats away. Tomorrow I focus, only to stray, my mind has never been so caged away. I’d like to live, and to know and be free, but the life I live will never be me.
The truth is out there.
F1: October 24, 2009
One of the best days in a long time!…
- Today was the big shopping spree for new clothes – and it was a whole lot more than that, it was the search for a new style. I think I found what I’ve been looking for.
- I’ve really liked the preppy look – full pull-over sweater on top of a collared shirt… so awesome. Well, my weight loss hasn’t led me quite to that point in playing dress-up, but I think I’ve accomplished a sub-step on my way there. I got a few collared shirts, a pull-over sweater with a turtle-neck, a vest, and plenty of new jeans, as well as a sick sweatshirt. And get this!… I dropped two pant sizes. I was so ecstatic! I haven’t fit into 34′s for ages (literally).
- Anyway, I’m extremely happy with my outfits and cannot wait to bring ‘em to the ole Corvallis. Could not had a better time shopping… Well… Maybe. I feel so changed and definitely hope to leave behind the old me.
- I’ve decided my Halloween costume. I shall be a DJ! I’ve got my basic Sennheiser headphones and my T-Qualizer shirt (that basically fits now – has ALWAYS been a challenge since it was imported from Europe). I am thinking what else I might need. I don’t really want to go hardcore, so maybe this is enough.
- So stoked for Halloween weekend to come in 6 days! Kevin’s good friend is visiting with his girlfriend (and her friends, too) and are staying the night. PARTAY!… Campus will be buzzing!
- Haircut tomorrow, along with shoe shopping and a few more errands.
- I miss Corvallis, though. I feel bad leaving Kevin at the apartment alone. Ok, it sounds weird, but it’s something I think about. I don’t have as much of a desperation to go home anymore like I did during the stagnation of dorms. I love the apartment!
- Hit up 24 Hour Fitness tonight – man the food I’ve consumed yesterday and today since being home is inevitably going to put me up a pound or two – had to at least try to burn some of it off. I can’t wait to get back to the normal routine of working out at Dixon. I come home and I see how I used to live – and how contrast it is to my way of life in Corvallis… The later being better, actually.
- Went to Haggen to pick up my final paycheck. My coworker’s paycheck was there, and his last day was one day prior to mine… so mine should be there too – but it wasn’t! There’s more workarounds, but it’s a pain.
- Ready to turn the page and start a new chapter… Bring it on!
F1: October 23, 2009
- The rain made its way back here to Corvallis… Absolutely EWE.
- Driving home this afternoon and staying in Tualatin until Monday mid-morning – practically all my clothes are packed up so I can swap out for newly purchased, better fitting items.
- Workout predicament… I didn’t work out yesterday due to my busiest day of classes and the need to complete my most difficult essay this year so far. That makes twice this week I didn’t go work out. I feel I should go to Dixon today and work out because I am most likely going to be gaining a pound or two this weekend at home with little options to work out there. Such a hard decision!… Here’s the downer, though… I’d have to skip Math 245 to do so. I looked over the notes online and I understand the content. Decisions, decisions!
F1: October 20, 2009
- Yesterday was jBlog’s 100th post on its 1st birthday!
- Sunday evening I had to interview random people regarding an event I was required to cover for Writing for Media (WR-201). I was so nervous! I ended up attending the premier of Not Evil Just Wrong, a documentary on Global Warming. I’m glad that the people I interviewed had mixed opinions – it will help when I write up my assignment. But I have that still to do, plus my beat journal. Urgh…
- Math 245 midterm tomorrow… That class is still quite strange. My professor was hired the week prior to school starting, so his methods of teaching haven’t had years of OSU student conditioning, if you know what I mean. He doesn’t even know what actually goes on in recitations – he thinks we have our “study groups”, when in fact we don’t. He makes his midterm so that we will take the exam during our 50-minute class, but he assures us that we won’t be able to finish all the problems. But we should feel comforted because he grades on a curve. See… this could be a good thing when it comes to grades, but it could also be bad because there is no actual fixed form of grading – essentially it becomes based on how he believes you did, not whether the machine graded your answer right or wrong. So, what I’m thinking is that if you go through all the problems and show some work on each one of them, and then go back through and complete the easiest ones and whatever the rest you can complete, then you have a much greater chance of scoring higher because he gives credit for showing your steps and procedures for more problems than anyone else, technically. But what if the majority of the class does perform the “trick” I just mentioned and I don’t? Will I get marked down because I didn’t use the same method for testing as others? In my mind, it doesn’t seem to come out all that fair, unless he actually does use a bias to essentially offset this issue. We shall see…
- Going home this weekend – was supposed to be last weekend, but then I realized that I had two midterms this school week and two papers due Friday, so it’d be best if I hit home this Friday such that my work load will be much less, and stress be much lighter. I will be heading home the first time since I moved down here to Corvallis. It will be nice to play Boggle at Starbucks in the aura of this autumn weather. I need to also go to Haggen to see if they still have my final paycheck (yeah… from 4 weeks ago) and also to say hello to some people I miss. I will also be going shopping for new clothes!… It’s a procedure I usually whine and cry about, but I’m actually eager. This dieting is going well, except all the clothes I have here at the apartment are fairly large and baggy now. I have to put my hands in my pockets in order to keep my jeans up, and unzip my sweatshirt because it curls all up without a stomach there to keep it straight (confusing to explain, I know). All the belts I have are too big as well. So… I suppose this is a good thing. I can’t wait to see what pant size I can fit into! The only thing I’m a bit iffy about going home is my loss of traction on this diet, and the fact that even though I will be enjoying home, I’ll also be missing great times here in Corvallis. Though, Halloween weekend will be a new experience.
100 on the 1
Today (Tuesday, October 20th) is a big day! We are celebrating 100 on the 1, meaning this is jBlog’s 100th posting on the day of its 1st birthday… How exciting is that?! Anyway, wish I had prizes to give away, but I’m just a starving (actually, I’m dieting) college student. So thanks for stopping by on this personally historic day. As always, your comments are welcomed no matter if you are registered with WordPress or not. And remember kids, blogging is not dead, it’s really just getting started.
