- This morning people were handing out free hot chocolate in front of my building. Then the nice geography professor dropped off a tray of cookies in the back of a classroom. On my way out of class I grabbed a peanut butter sugar cookie. Delicious!
- One of the good things about being single is that I can wear my retainer whenever the fuck I want. None of this, "A retainer is really not-sexy, never ever wear it EVER when you're sleeping in the same bed as a man" business. I want to keep my teeth straight, damn it!
- This made me laugh. THAT IS MOHAGONY!!!
My GIS professor and I had a little tiff this morning. He emailed me to apologize for calling my attribute table "stupid." I wasn't sure whether or not to respond, but then I thought about the fact that he was reaching out to me as a professor, and it bothered me when I tried to do that for some of my students and they didn't respond. So I responded and also apologized for being short, saying I had been stressed out because I'm behind in everything, including his project, and that I wanted to do well on it but I needed to know exactly what I was going to do for it. I had gotten even more stressed when he told me to email him my project goals, because that meant I still wasn't making any progress on it. Really though he was asking because he's a visual learner like I am, so it's easier to understand things that are written down. I hadn't understood that at the time because I wanted to start work on the project and was stressed.
Today's reflection:
This morning went well. I slept well, and I was even closer to getting up at 6:15. However, I fell asleep again and didn't get up until 8. At least now I can reliably get up at 8, and I was early for once for class. The free hot chocolate and free cookie were nice too.
The rest of the day was kind of blah though. I'm just stressed out about schoolwork and unmotivated. I really wish they would give us a fall break so that I could catch up on things and reset.
Anyway, since I made a post about this shitty year a few days ago, I might as well reflect on some of the good parts of it:
- Graduating from college. 5 years of hard work, and I got 2 bachelor's degrees in completely unrelated subjects.
- Getting into my top grad school and studying with the leading member in my field.
- Really learning a lot from my advisor. I'm learning how to set myself up for professional success, in addition to learning the importance of keeping up with the current literature/conference proceedings.
- Keeping my New Year's Resolution of getting back into shape and going to the gym every day. I bounced back from 4 injuries, and now I'm so much healthier and stronger.
- Losing the weight that I gained after I became a heavy drinker. 27 lbs lost, I'm currently back where I was in high school, which is nice. However I'm not done, because in high school I had always wanted to lose 10-15 lbs but never did. I'll try to do that now.
- Eating better. The way I lost weight was to control my portion sizes. For the most part, I eat very healthy now. I try to make sure I eat enough of each food group every day, but not too much.
- Traveling places. Got to go to Las Vegas, Denver, and Winnipeg. Hopefully will visit NYC in December for my birthday.
- Having a better understanding of myself, and seeing how strong I am, from all the bad experiences.
- Repairing my relationship with my Mom. Hopefully it can get to where I want it to be.
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