Archive for August, 2009
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
This week was slightly terrible. It dragged on and multiple problems reared their ugly heads. Oh well. Today I woke up and felt sick, in fact, most of this week I have been dragging my feet. The beauty of it all- I don’t have to go into campus. You know, when you feel sick it always gets worse when you have to go in to class. It was the only way I could keep up with school while battling cancer.
Off of that topic, I’ve been getting emails about the Swine Flu and how to prevent other illnesses. Haha. I get to stay all nice and wrapped up in my comfy blankets at home while doing classes. No need to go into school to expose myself to millions of germs. Then again, when I’m sick, I don’t go to school and expose the rest of you.
Another plus, I don’t have to go to campus and fight tooth and nail for a parking spot! Man! I drove into the parking lot the other day to pick up a book. Let’s just say that I almost burst into tears as I drove off….there was no empty parking space to speak of. Needless to say, I got the book and calmed down after awhile.
With the wedding coming up, I have time to work out. That’s a huge plus. After you go through 10-11 months of pure stress, chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries, and hardships….what do you think your body does? It crashes from trauma. It doesn’t know that everything can go back to normal right away.It takes months there afterward to find a balance. So what happens? It grabs onto any nutrients, fat, and anything else it can get. It kind of stores up on those things because it feels like the trauma will continue or come back. Exercise is the key to fighting depression and an unbalance of hormones that are bouncing around like pin balls. (plus you need to drink lots of water)
People often think that they won’t meet any new friends while taking online classes. That’s a myth. In my biology class we may start meeting to focus on the labs and help each other out on them by discussing, studying together, and bouncing ideas off of one another. Other classes, you have online discussions constantly going. (which gives you a lot or work to keep up on.)
So, there are some benefits and some additional thoughts. (there are more. However, I’m going back to bed.) I woke up this morning and thanked God that I didn’t have to go to campus in order to complete some classes for this week. I was too sick.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Alright, a day or two ago my fiancee and I are driving around checking off things on the “to do” list. We are listening to the radio and jamming away together to some great songs. My fiancee turns to me and states that Pop music has no originality left. I contemplate on this for awhile and finally agreed. Now wait just a second before you get all defensive! (this is not about the pop culture.) A little further along down the road, the radio DJ comes on and starts talking about the remake of the TV show Melrose Place. (have I even watched the first one? Nope.) Then she, the DJ, starts discussing the idea that we are remaking songs, remaking movies, and now remaking TV shows?! The point of this story is: Honestly, doesn’t anyone have an original idea anymore?
Our generation is educated enough, indeed. Are there any more original ideas to spare? Maybe we are just in a rut for some brand new creativity?Alright, so that is my thought of the day. So, switching gears for just a bit…
School has started and the homework has piled on pretty high. My main reason for taking online classes was so that I could work full-time. While it seemed like a good idea at the time….I’m not too sure now. Is it really worth just to be able to work full-time? Darn it all. Let me put this in a simple fashion. While I am happy that I settled out for online courses. (It makes my life a heck of a lot easier.) it’s kind of tough making it through the semester when you get stuck with just one of those jobs that you could roll in mud and feel better doing that, than going to work! Although, I do get weekends off…
Speaking of weekends, my fiancee and I went to a Rockies game this past Sunday. You know, the day it was like 95 degrees out with no clouds to be seen until like the 6th inning? Of course, we beat the San Fransisco Giants and I had one happy fiancee for the rest of the day! If they hadn’t won, I would be the one throwing a fit saying that we stood watching batting practice, we waited till the game started, and then 3 hours there afterward till the game was done….all the while the sun is melting us away to nothing. Ugh. I vowed that game to be that last game I ever went to. From now on it’ll be a “guys out” night or something. (I’ll probably go back once I forget how much misery I was put through.)
That’s it for now!!! I hope you are keeping up on those classes….you know, we do have four months left. Ugh.
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
So everything is going pretty well. I can never complain about the first week with online classes. Mainly, we just do introductions. While I’m excited to be doing English Comp once again (been awhile), I’m not too sure about some of my core requirements to complete for the degree of Sociology. For example: Contemporary Sociological Theory. While it is a mouthful and sounds interesting, I am just a tiny bit hesitant to how this class is going to go. (However, I don’t think anything can quite be as confusing as attempting to do a math class online…if you are as terrible as I am at doing math.) It seems to me that this semester I will be writing papers practically all the time, while working full-time.
Speaking of work…Yesterday I woke up and I decided that I don’t want to be working with youngsters anymore. I want older kids, the ones that interact more and you can teach them lessons in the core classes. The more I teach the more passionate I become about becoming a teacher! This is a dilemma you see! I am almost a senior at UCD and I can’t just change my major. My major is Sociology and my minor is Education, I would like to become a high school counselor some day. However, now I’m thinking that being a teacher before hand wouldn’t be such a bad idea. So, what shall it be? Masters in Education? Masters in Sociology?
In other news today, my fiancee and I are going to go explore Denver on the weekend. I am actually quite excited about this. I know practically nothing of the area. We also may hike Mnt. Yale on tomorrow. I’ll keep you posted on how that went.
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