Spring break is really never long enough. I feel like it takes me at least 5 days just
to recover and another 3 or 4 to buy books and get my ass in gear again. And that puts me at Tuesday or Wednesday of
week 1 before I’m literate/dressing myself again. This was all certainly the case this year as
well. Fortunately, the term has been
relatively slow to start—with professors being pretty lax on assigning work and
reading—but I get the feeling that things should start blowing up in my face in
no time flat.
So before I have to get back to business I have (even more)
good news to share. (After the tone of
this post and the previous, I should be able to pretty much whine and complain
about how hard my life is for the rest of the year and still break even).
I finally got my grades from last term, and I am very proud to say I got straight A’s.
It’s not
because I haven’t gotten 4.0’s before—its because I took three extremely
challenging courses with well-known reputations among my peers for obliterating GPAs. I had adjusted my expectations
accordingly, and after finals, I wasn’t sure that I would even get a single A. I don’t want to go on and on about this, so
I’ll just say that the Junior year classes are infamously difficult, and I feel
a large sense of accomplishment having escaped unscathed.
I also just recently ran my first 5k in 30:36, and managed to
do it without stopping even once. In your face, legs/respiratory system! Of course,
since Beth is currently training for a half-marathon right now, that's
basically her warm up routine, but it’s been a goal of mine for a while so I’m
glad to have completed it. I hope to
trim my time down significantly before I try anything longer, like a 10k.
Additionally, my internship is awesome. It deserves a post of it’s own, so hopefully
I will have time for that in the near future.
For now I should just say that choosing my own schedule, working
independently, being entrusted with actual responsibilities, and flying around
on a charter jet are some of the aspects I’m enjoying most so far.
Finally, why don't you enter your email over to the right where it says "Follow by Email" and click submit? I have one single follower. I'm sure he's lonely.
