First Week

Listening to: Hey Soul Sister by Train

So the first week of classes is over, and although it wasn't even a full week it was very interesting. I've started my resolution about working out, and it's going well so far. Wednesday I cycled over 11 miles on the stationary bike, and today I did 10. I was working out with a friend today, so for the first 15 minutes we just did an easy pace, and I did like 8 miles in the last 15 minutes. The bike machine I was on today was horrible. First of all, the seat was way too high for me, so it ended up being a very uncomfortable time. On top of that, the machine I chose wasn't properly balanced on the ground, so as I would try to go faster it would rock right to left, almost as if it were going to fall down. Moral of the story? Check the equipment before you start working out or you'll be sore where you're not supposed to be sore. That being said, I'll probably work out again tomorrow even though I don't like washing my hair two days in a row.

Classes themselves were pretty good. I have a lot of good teachers this semester, so it should be better than last semester. Supposedly I have homework for half of them, but I can't find it in the syllabi or on Blackboard so I'll just hang back on that for now. I do have to read an article for my Korean Pop Culture class though, and I need to read an entire book for Mosaics and do two exercises for it as well, but that'll be simple enough. Hopefully I'll have a good majority of that done tonight, although I have a weird craving to draw, so I may just read the Korean article and then do all the Mosaic assignments tomorrow. I also want to upload some notes into my computer using OneNote so that I can take notes on my laptop in class. If you don't know about OneNote, you should definitely look into it. It's this really cool note-taking system made by Microsoft. It came with my computer so I'm not sure which vista/windows 7 set up it comes with, but if you take class notes on the computer you should definitely look into it. Everything is fluid and very easy to move around. It's great too because I can take my own notes and then just take diagrams and stuff from power points or online stuff and put it into the document. :D

Yesterday, Thursday, my friends and I went out for a girl's night and when we got to olive garden I found out that it was a late birthday celebration. They gave me a card and paid for my food, which was way too nice of them. I seriously didn't think anything like that was going to happen, so it was a pretty interesting surprise. This is just another reason I love my friends. :D

Oh, if you're wondering how reading "The Lovely Bones" to my mother went, it was pretty good. It only took a couple of days, well evenings really, but we got through. Both my sister and my mother really liked the books and we're looking into getting the book that Alice Sebold wrote after it. They're not related, but we enjoy her twisted stories.

Have a fantastic day and hug somebody!

Zan

::A Quote To Leave You By::

"Do or do not. There is no 'try'." Jedi Master Yoda