My second semester of school started yesterday. I was able to work out a schedule with the jaunt-bus so that I don't have to ride in at 5:30 with my dad and kill time for three hours before class starts, so that's good. I might occasionally be a little late for my first class but the professor doesn't mind so it shouldn't be a problem.
First day was good. The two classes that will carry the bigger work-load are History of Western Civilization, and English Comp 111. The history class will be a LOT of reading:
The Iliad, Beowulf, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, City of God by Augustine, and The Prince.
I think I need to be done with The Iliad in 3 weeks. Not that it's that much to get done in that amount of time, but scheduling it and forcing myself to read - and retain - the thing... Still, looking forward to going through all of the material and hearing some discussion.
The comp class is a little daunting. A lot of it is handwritten things I have to keep in one journal and I'm not crazy about writing everything on paper. I've gotten used to being able to edit and tweak things as I work on them. It'll be okay though. It's definitely one of those classes where effort counts more than, or at least as much as, the end results.
Good so far.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
New Years Morning
New Years Day (morning). I'd lost access to this blog but was able to find the login through my google account so thought I'd put up another post.
Dad and I spent New Years Eve at the farm with Emilie and Logan celebrating Christmas since they were in Kentucky with Logans family over the holidays. First Christmas I've spent with family in at least 10 years. We had a good time. Emilie made vegetable-beef (venison, in this case) soup the way grandma used to and then we opened presents and played bananagram. Nice way to spend the last day of the year.
I've been pretty ill since Tuesday and I'm tired of waking up feeling achey and nauseated. Once I put a bunch of tylenol in me I mostly feel okay but have no energy. I've still been going to the gym most every day and that seems to help for a few hours but I just can't seem to get past whatever it is. I've always been slow to recover from anything though. I think that if I don't just muscle through the unpleasantness it stretches it out forever so I've learned to just take a little time off and then go back to life as normal.
The first semester of school went well. I only had three classes so I was able to put in a lot of time on each one and get a 4.0. Next semester starts on the 10th and I'm taking 13 credits so I think it'll be the real test of how well I adapt to school. I'll only be there on Tuesday and Thursday, with all 5 classes running back-to-back on both days, so I'll have plenty of time to work on things outside of school. Managing my time and not letting things slip will be a challenge. I was good about (not) procrastinating last semester but there wasn't as much to schedule. Hopefully I can keep that up.
Things seem to be as good as they can be in the DOC. All of the guys are in good spirits. Still talk to James and Dallas regularly. Frank and I email pretty often and Z even manages to send a few paragraphs a month. The new videogram thing on jpay is nice. I can send 30-second videos to the guys. It's still only available in Rush City though. It'll be cool when Stillwater gets it so that I can send stuff to Dallas and Dino and Chris.
Chris seems to really be getting out there. He got fired from the editor job at The Mirror and didn't take it too well. From all accounts, he was pretty stressed and maybe letting the position go to his head some, so maybe it wasn't a terrible thing in the end. He's over in D-hall working in the kitchen. That's about as laid-back as a job can be in Stillwater. Hopefully it gives him a good break from the bullshit.
Dad picked me up an '05 Shadow for Christmas. We're turning it into a bobber. Blacked out the plastic silver stuff on the sides yesterday and there's a seat and fender kit in the mail that I'm really excited to see. I can't drive the fucking thing until April when my neurologist signs off on me getting a permit so it should look great by the time I'm able to ride. I was blown away by the gift and I know he's as excited as I am about it. It's cool having something we can both work on that isn't just home-improvement stuff.
That's really about it. Now that I can access this again I might write more. Daily stuff can fill up a lot of space if you actually write about it. Or you can not write a thing for months and easily sum it all up in a few paragraphs. I prefer writing more often though. I know I'm skipping past a lot of things that would've been worth writing about when they happened but are beyond me now.
Dad and I spent New Years Eve at the farm with Emilie and Logan celebrating Christmas since they were in Kentucky with Logans family over the holidays. First Christmas I've spent with family in at least 10 years. We had a good time. Emilie made vegetable-beef (venison, in this case) soup the way grandma used to and then we opened presents and played bananagram. Nice way to spend the last day of the year.
I've been pretty ill since Tuesday and I'm tired of waking up feeling achey and nauseated. Once I put a bunch of tylenol in me I mostly feel okay but have no energy. I've still been going to the gym most every day and that seems to help for a few hours but I just can't seem to get past whatever it is. I've always been slow to recover from anything though. I think that if I don't just muscle through the unpleasantness it stretches it out forever so I've learned to just take a little time off and then go back to life as normal.
The first semester of school went well. I only had three classes so I was able to put in a lot of time on each one and get a 4.0. Next semester starts on the 10th and I'm taking 13 credits so I think it'll be the real test of how well I adapt to school. I'll only be there on Tuesday and Thursday, with all 5 classes running back-to-back on both days, so I'll have plenty of time to work on things outside of school. Managing my time and not letting things slip will be a challenge. I was good about (not) procrastinating last semester but there wasn't as much to schedule. Hopefully I can keep that up.
Things seem to be as good as they can be in the DOC. All of the guys are in good spirits. Still talk to James and Dallas regularly. Frank and I email pretty often and Z even manages to send a few paragraphs a month. The new videogram thing on jpay is nice. I can send 30-second videos to the guys. It's still only available in Rush City though. It'll be cool when Stillwater gets it so that I can send stuff to Dallas and Dino and Chris.
Chris seems to really be getting out there. He got fired from the editor job at The Mirror and didn't take it too well. From all accounts, he was pretty stressed and maybe letting the position go to his head some, so maybe it wasn't a terrible thing in the end. He's over in D-hall working in the kitchen. That's about as laid-back as a job can be in Stillwater. Hopefully it gives him a good break from the bullshit.
Dad picked me up an '05 Shadow for Christmas. We're turning it into a bobber. Blacked out the plastic silver stuff on the sides yesterday and there's a seat and fender kit in the mail that I'm really excited to see. I can't drive the fucking thing until April when my neurologist signs off on me getting a permit so it should look great by the time I'm able to ride. I was blown away by the gift and I know he's as excited as I am about it. It's cool having something we can both work on that isn't just home-improvement stuff.
That's really about it. Now that I can access this again I might write more. Daily stuff can fill up a lot of space if you actually write about it. Or you can not write a thing for months and easily sum it all up in a few paragraphs. I prefer writing more often though. I know I'm skipping past a lot of things that would've been worth writing about when they happened but are beyond me now.
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