:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Thursday, November 20, 2003 ::

doctor's visit
I went to the doctor today at lunch. He doesn't think it's mono I've got again. But, he thinks it's a virus and not something he can give me anti-biotics for, so I basically just have to keep plugging along at trying to kick it. He also thinks what I've got is allergy related.

I also asked him about the ankle pain I've been having. He checked both my ankles while I was telling him about my past knee trouble. He thinks it's related to that and suggested trying to continue doing the exercises I was doing at the physical therapist's office as best I can. I can't do a lot of the weight bearing exercises because I don't have access to gym equipment (I'd need to join a separate gym for that because Curves works a bit differently), but I can do the resistance exercises and the stretching. Now I just have to actually get myself to start doing them again.



curves is cool
Yes, Mom and I joined Curves. It's kind of neat. It's a thirty minute workout where you go in, spend a total of a minute on each "station" (alternating an aerobic pad or a weight machine). You go around the circuit twice with 30 seconds at each station during the circuit. Then, you have a few minutes left over to do cool down stretches at the end, and it times out perfectly to 30 minutes. You're supposed to go at least three times a week. We haven't done that... ^^;;

However, I like the atmosphere a little bit better than going to a regular gym. Maybe once I lose a bit of weight and have some extra money, I'll check out a regular gym if I don't get health insurance first. Briarcliffe's Patchogue campus doesn't have regular gym facilities for sports and stuff. That's all at the Bethpage campus and that's like a 45 minute drive from home. I could stop on the way home from work, but I don't think Dad would want to wait outside for me to finish since he wouldn't be able to go in with me.

boring-ness
I was so bored today, it wasn't even funny. I thought my brain was going to rot and drip out my ears or something. However, I got pretty far and I'm down to the last 500 names I have to check out. That actually means there's a lot less than that because I know I've skipped at least 350, maybe 400, of those as ones I couldn't do anything with.

Unfortunately, this also means that they're going to have to find more work for me, cut my pay, or just not have me come in after I'm done. With that possibility looming fairly close now, I'm kind of nervous. I like having an income. It's just so hard to find stuff to get an income for.

how hard is it to find a stupid class?
I registered for next semester tonight. Talk about a song and dance to find classes that I needed that didn't conflict with each other on the schedule or were even being offered. We got it worked out, though, so I'm happy. Tomorrow, I have to head back down to the school again to drop off my loan paperwork so the request goes through. Luckily, I don't think any of the classes I signed up for will fill up too fast.

I'm taking MT-102, which is the second portion of my math textbook that I used in MT-101. I'm hoping they're still using that book. With my luck, they won't be. I'm also taking Business Management, Intro to C#, and American History. Yay.

I'm looking forward to the C# class. I've been reading about the language for a long time now, and I know it's like the next step after C++. Considering I took C and C++ slightly reversed... ^^;; ...I'm not too worried about taking that class after Java. The languages are all similar anyway in syntax and the fact that they're all object oriented. It should be fun.

I'm so not looking forward to American History or Bus. Mgmt. {{sigh}} Oh well, what are you gonna do, right? They're required for my four year degree.

teaching again
Well, after several calls where I either had to turn the person down or the student cancelled on me, I finally found someone that I can actually tutor. I'm meeting her on Friday. She's in Accounting I, which is what I'm in, but we're at the same chapter and I understand it pretty well, so maybe I can give her a hand on it. She's going to call me again on Friday to confirm time and place, so we'll see how it goes.

snapple "real fact" #143
"Q" is the only letter of the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.