Cathy and I sent Cait off to Senegal today... I'm going to miss her a lot, but I'm sure we'll talk as often as possibly. She may even be reading this now - Cait, get blogging, I want to hear about your life in Africa!
After we said goodbye, we got some frozen yogurt at this new place by my house... I feel like I'm going to be eating a lot of frozen yogurt this summer, haha. It's like Pinkberry style but cheaper. After that, I just came home and chilled. Got through the 30 Day Shred again after a two day break. I'm going to be sore all day tomorrow while I'm ushering for the jazz festival at my school. But it's totally worth it... 7 hours as head usher will earn me a little money. I really wish I had a steady job this summer, but it's not worth getting one right now since I'll have classes more than twice a week at the end of June. Meh.
Anyway, that's really it. Another summer day. Later!
- Jill
04 June 2010
03 June 2010
Yesterday!
I got up much earlier than I normally do - 6 AM. Didn't really get out of bed until 6:30, but I made sure to give myself that time. Showered, made myself pretty, and went out the door with an apple in hand to go to my first day of graduate school classes. I nommed my mini breakfast during my commute, which was surprisingly low on traffic until I got into town. But I managed to get to class a little early!
The first class was School and Society - I have a feeling I'm not going to enjoy this class. I generally don't like sociology courses. I participated and everything, but I think that class consists of a lot of people bullshitting and talking/arguing about things that are basically common sense. And there's a ridiculous amount of reading to do... Either way, I'll get through it.
After a quick solo lunch at a pizza place, I went to the library and read a little bit before my second class - The Adolescent Learner. That's going to be an interesting class. It's less about studying school as an institution (like my other class) and more about actual classroom stuff. Classroom management, educational psychology, theories of development... I'm pretty excited about it. The professor seems pretty cool, too. At least he made 3 hours go by relatively painlessly.
When I was all done with classes I headed to Cathy's house to pick her up so we could go see Iron Man 2. I was a little worried I'd be lost because I haven't seen the first one. I did sort of know the premise, though, so I was able to figure out what I was missing. Anyway, the movie was totally awesome! Cathy and I agreed that most of the fight scenes were weirdly short, though. But I didn't really care because RDJ kind of melts me into a puddle.
After the movie we hit a nearby diner for some food and to meet up with Cait. The lady at the diner was really nice and let us stay late - she even let Cait in after closing since we were totally unaware that the place was closing at 10 and she got there a while after us. We felt sort of bad just sitting there chatting when we were done eating so we left and went back to Cathy's house and chatted for a couple hours. That was really nice, to just hang out. I hadn't seen them since Spring Break and Cathy's leaving for California for the month on Saturday and Cait is leaving for Senegal for a YEAR. That's right. Pretty much all of my friends will not be anywhere near me geographically for quite some time. As depressing as that is, I guess it will give me time for all the reading I have to do for class... blah.
Anyway, tonight Cathy is coming over for dinner tonight and maybe my parents and I can convince her to come on vacation with us to Florida in August! But that's just about it for now. Till next time!
- Jill
The first class was School and Society - I have a feeling I'm not going to enjoy this class. I generally don't like sociology courses. I participated and everything, but I think that class consists of a lot of people bullshitting and talking/arguing about things that are basically common sense. And there's a ridiculous amount of reading to do... Either way, I'll get through it.
After a quick solo lunch at a pizza place, I went to the library and read a little bit before my second class - The Adolescent Learner. That's going to be an interesting class. It's less about studying school as an institution (like my other class) and more about actual classroom stuff. Classroom management, educational psychology, theories of development... I'm pretty excited about it. The professor seems pretty cool, too. At least he made 3 hours go by relatively painlessly.
When I was all done with classes I headed to Cathy's house to pick her up so we could go see Iron Man 2. I was a little worried I'd be lost because I haven't seen the first one. I did sort of know the premise, though, so I was able to figure out what I was missing. Anyway, the movie was totally awesome! Cathy and I agreed that most of the fight scenes were weirdly short, though. But I didn't really care because RDJ kind of melts me into a puddle.
After the movie we hit a nearby diner for some food and to meet up with Cait. The lady at the diner was really nice and let us stay late - she even let Cait in after closing since we were totally unaware that the place was closing at 10 and she got there a while after us. We felt sort of bad just sitting there chatting when we were done eating so we left and went back to Cathy's house and chatted for a couple hours. That was really nice, to just hang out. I hadn't seen them since Spring Break and Cathy's leaving for California for the month on Saturday and Cait is leaving for Senegal for a YEAR. That's right. Pretty much all of my friends will not be anywhere near me geographically for quite some time. As depressing as that is, I guess it will give me time for all the reading I have to do for class... blah.
Anyway, tonight Cathy is coming over for dinner tonight and maybe my parents and I can convince her to come on vacation with us to Florida in August! But that's just about it for now. Till next time!
- Jill
Since I'm currently running on adrenaline alone...
The post about today's excitement (read: actual activity, not utter laziness) will have to wait until tomorrow. Or really, later today. Brief summary: had first classes of graduate school, saw Iron Man 2, went to a diner, hung out with my 2 best friends from home relatively late into the night regardless of the fact that my whole body is aching from yesterday's workout (skipped today's... got home too late) and I'm running on about 5 hours of sleep.
Will fill in the details when I get up later!
- Jill
Will fill in the details when I get up later!
- Jill
01 June 2010
My armsssss.
Started the 30 Day Shred today. I'm totally able to do all of the exercises for strength and cardio and abs... except for the push-ups. I mean, I can feel my muscles burning for everything but it's a good burn and I can push through it. But I literally feel like I am going to fall down and die when I do push-ups. I'll keep trying to do them, but I'd rather substitute with some other strength exercise so I'm not seeing stars by the end of the 20 minute workout. Either way, I know I'm going to be sore in the morning.
I also have acquired all 12 books (that is for 3/5 classes that I'm taking) that I need for the summer. 12. That I'll probably have to read all of before the summer is over. And the aren't like novels. They are textbooks. Well, a couple are more like novels. This is going to be a rough summer. At least the reading I've done so far isn't really boring.
Another short entry from me - hopefully I'll have more interesting things to say tomorrow after my first day of graduate school classes!
- Jill
P.S. - Rabbit rabbit! When the hell did it get to be June?!
I also have acquired all 12 books (that is for 3/5 classes that I'm taking) that I need for the summer. 12. That I'll probably have to read all of before the summer is over. And the aren't like novels. They are textbooks. Well, a couple are more like novels. This is going to be a rough summer. At least the reading I've done so far isn't really boring.
Another short entry from me - hopefully I'll have more interesting things to say tomorrow after my first day of graduate school classes!
- Jill
P.S. - Rabbit rabbit! When the hell did it get to be June?!
31 May 2010
Big day of nothing!
Today was definitely a holiday for me... I did nothing productive all day. Well, I started organizing clothes in my room. But that's gonna take forever. I don't know how I acquired so much crap in my closet at home when I wasn't really even living here for the past 4 years... but whatever. Gotta clean it.
I've also spent a lot of today watching Doctor Who. I think I've got 4 episodes left in Series 4. And I know that's when the Tenth Doctor regenerates... not looking forward to that, I'm a bit attached to him. But then I'll only be one Series behind instead of never seeing it at all!
Anyway, I've been totally useless today. But tomorrow I'm going to pick up my books for school and I already have an assignment for one of my classes. I'm also going to pick up some hand weights for the 30 Day Shred. My mom and I are supposed to go for a walk when she gets home from work - hopefully it's not raining, and maybe we can get my dad to join us.
And now I'm 3/3! Let's keep it going!
- Jill
I've also spent a lot of today watching Doctor Who. I think I've got 4 episodes left in Series 4. And I know that's when the Tenth Doctor regenerates... not looking forward to that, I'm a bit attached to him. But then I'll only be one Series behind instead of never seeing it at all!
Anyway, I've been totally useless today. But tomorrow I'm going to pick up my books for school and I already have an assignment for one of my classes. I'm also going to pick up some hand weights for the 30 Day Shred. My mom and I are supposed to go for a walk when she gets home from work - hopefully it's not raining, and maybe we can get my dad to join us.
And now I'm 3/3! Let's keep it going!
- Jill
30 May 2010
Friends friends friends.
Today I went to my friend Jess's graduation party. Took a nice long drive down the parkway to get there... I really love driving long distances by myself. Especially on really nice days like today was. It's fun to ride down the highway with whatever music you want blasting in the speakers and singing along as you go.
Anyway, it was really good to see her and some of my other friends. It's been 2 weeks since I've seen anyone from Drew besides a couple of the people in my grad program. I was especially glad to see them since I had some strong nostalgia for school a couple of nights ago. I've been missing college life in general, I think. (I think I might miss The Pub a little too much.)
But I'll be back to school on Wednesday. I'm excited to take classes about education, but I really am nervous about the program in general. It's going to be a busy, intense year and I know I have bad time management skills. I've always been a procrastinator to the max and I know that's something I should have fixed in college... but I never really did. Hopefully living at home will help me get my work done faster. Since I won't really be seeing my friends very often, I'll have all the time in the world to do work.
On another note, Tuesday marks day one of the 30 Day Shred for me... I've been told it's an ass-kicking workout. I don't think I'll be able to get my parents to do the workout with me, but we are changing how we eat as a family. I couldn't be happier about that. I've used SparkPeople in the past and lost weight, but it was always sort of hard because I was doing it on my own. This time, I'll have more support from my parents and I'll be there to support them, too.
Anyway, I'm 2/2 for blogging! And that's all from me for now.
- Jill
Anyway, it was really good to see her and some of my other friends. It's been 2 weeks since I've seen anyone from Drew besides a couple of the people in my grad program. I was especially glad to see them since I had some strong nostalgia for school a couple of nights ago. I've been missing college life in general, I think. (I think I might miss The Pub a little too much.)
But I'll be back to school on Wednesday. I'm excited to take classes about education, but I really am nervous about the program in general. It's going to be a busy, intense year and I know I have bad time management skills. I've always been a procrastinator to the max and I know that's something I should have fixed in college... but I never really did. Hopefully living at home will help me get my work done faster. Since I won't really be seeing my friends very often, I'll have all the time in the world to do work.
On another note, Tuesday marks day one of the 30 Day Shred for me... I've been told it's an ass-kicking workout. I don't think I'll be able to get my parents to do the workout with me, but we are changing how we eat as a family. I couldn't be happier about that. I've used SparkPeople in the past and lost weight, but it was always sort of hard because I was doing it on my own. This time, I'll have more support from my parents and I'll be there to support them, too.
Anyway, I'm 2/2 for blogging! And that's all from me for now.
- Jill
Guess what.
Trying my hand at blogging yet again! It was my 2009 resolution to keep a regular blog... just like it was my 2008-2009 school year resolution to keep a hand written journal. Yikes. I was reading those old entries... it's weird to think what a different place I was in then. Let's do a little comparison, shall we?
I was halfway through my junior year of college. I was stressed out with classes, particularly those most important for my neuroscience major. I was on the brink of a new romance. I was hating my leadership position in my choir. I was extremely happy with my living situation. I was quite a different person.
Now, I'm a college graduate. Not so stressed out about those neuro classes anymore considering I've got the degree now. I'm also very much single, and not really happy or sad about it. I'm not in a choir anymore because I graduated, and I know I'm going to miss it along with all my other musical outlets. I wouldn't say I'm unhappy with my living situation now that I'm back at home but it's definitely different. Sometimes I don't feel like my room is actually mine, which is hard my room was completely my own place at school. There are advantages to living at home... mostly of the monetary kind. Considering I'm starting graduate school classes in about 2 days, I'm really not going to have time for a job so I can't really start saving for my own place yet. My best guess is that I'll be able to move out in about 2 years, maybe 3. That is, unless I absolutely hate commuting and need to get a place closer to school in the fall. Which is totally possible.
Anyway, that is what has changed in the time since I last blogged. And that's quite a lot. I really hope this doesn't turn into another abandoned journal! Especially since I enjoy looking back on old entries so much. Until next time...
- Jill
P.S. - A note on the title of my blog. It's the name of one of my favorite songs by Marina and the Diamonds. I recommend giving it a listen/checking out the video here - I can definitely relate to the lyrics, and I think it's a fabulous song.
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