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likeabulldozer) wrote2011-01-20 11:46 am
likeabulldozer) wrote2011-01-20 11:46 am
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I'm here to eat cotton candy and steal your girl
I had my first day of class yesterday. It was classroom management and it's a three hour class. I've had several of those and honestly I don't mind them. This one was a bit uncomfortable just because it's packed and I'm very restless when I sit. I shift and fidget and move around a lot. The kiddo gets his inability to sit still from both me and Tony. Anyway in this class I always feel like I'm going to end up bumping into the people next to me or bother them with my shifting and fidgeting. So far the class is pretty much what I expected and that's good.
I've been really working on making sure I do some kind of exercise every day. I would like to lose 20lbs before this summer. I say would like to instead of making it an actual goal because I'm horrible at making goals and completing them. I'm better at just deciding I'd like to do something and move toward it as best I can without making myself crazy. So anyway, exercise of some kind every day. I've done really well since Monday. I either do Wii stuff or (and class helps me here) I count my mile one way walk from the parking lot to the building the class is in then after class I take eleven flights of stairs down to the ground floor. I'm not insane enough or in shape enough to take the stairs up. Sometimes if I have time and I'm feeling ambitious I'll do both.
Kid is doing better in school I think. After a break we always have this period of him settling back into the routine and getting on track. He's really sweet. He's very excited about me being in his school this semester for my student teaching even though I probably won't see him at all because he's middle school and I'll be in the high school.
Several people on my plurk and flist managed to convince me I need to give the Vampire Diaries a second chance so I watched S1 and I have to say, I've really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to S2. At first I just wasn't that interested in the major characters for a variety of reasons. The side characters like Caroline, Bonnie and even Vicki really were the ones that interested me. I still love Caroline [a lot] and Bonnie but the main characters slowly grew on me. I'm even liking Damon who originally I thought was just an entertaining smart ass without much depth to him. They've done a good job of taking the eye candy and giving viewers a reason to like him outside of eye candy. At least in my opinion.
I had to accept and move past the idea that there were going to be similarities to Buffy. That's part of what hung me up in the first place. That helped me move on and really I think the story just got better about half way through the first season or something. In any case, I'm fairly invested now. It's a fun show that I'm going to try to catch up on S2 for.
I'm looking forward to new Supernatural. I'd like for it to be now please. I'm hoping we'll finally be moving beyond the plot I don't like to something I do like.
Still reading a lot although right now it's The Morganville Vampires books because I'm canon reviewing for Myrnin. I'm trying to take notes as well because so much of what you learn about Myrnin in these books comes from the other characters rather than him. Since he's kind of batshit insane it's hard to trust what he says about himself. I may have figured out how to place his age a bit better. At what point in English history did people start using last names? My Medieval Survey class went over this a little bit but since it was a survey class there were giant leaps of time left out. In any case Myrnin gets referred to as Lord Myrnin of Conroy, the way he would have been at a time period before they started using last names.
My connection speed for some reason lately is sucking hard. I'm gonna have to call my wireless company and talk to them about how ridiculous it is. I'll end up doing it at night because the late night tech support will actually do something for you rather than open a ticket and refer you down to someone else. Undoubtedly along the way the open ticket gets lost, nothing gets done and it's just stupid. I hate our internet provider but unfortunately living out in BFE it's the best option we've got right now.
I've been really working on making sure I do some kind of exercise every day. I would like to lose 20lbs before this summer. I say would like to instead of making it an actual goal because I'm horrible at making goals and completing them. I'm better at just deciding I'd like to do something and move toward it as best I can without making myself crazy. So anyway, exercise of some kind every day. I've done really well since Monday. I either do Wii stuff or (and class helps me here) I count my mile one way walk from the parking lot to the building the class is in then after class I take eleven flights of stairs down to the ground floor. I'm not insane enough or in shape enough to take the stairs up. Sometimes if I have time and I'm feeling ambitious I'll do both.
Kid is doing better in school I think. After a break we always have this period of him settling back into the routine and getting on track. He's really sweet. He's very excited about me being in his school this semester for my student teaching even though I probably won't see him at all because he's middle school and I'll be in the high school.
Several people on my plurk and flist managed to convince me I need to give the Vampire Diaries a second chance so I watched S1 and I have to say, I've really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to S2. At first I just wasn't that interested in the major characters for a variety of reasons. The side characters like Caroline, Bonnie and even Vicki really were the ones that interested me. I still love Caroline [a lot] and Bonnie but the main characters slowly grew on me. I'm even liking Damon who originally I thought was just an entertaining smart ass without much depth to him. They've done a good job of taking the eye candy and giving viewers a reason to like him outside of eye candy. At least in my opinion.
I had to accept and move past the idea that there were going to be similarities to Buffy. That's part of what hung me up in the first place. That helped me move on and really I think the story just got better about half way through the first season or something. In any case, I'm fairly invested now. It's a fun show that I'm going to try to catch up on S2 for.
I'm looking forward to new Supernatural. I'd like for it to be now please. I'm hoping we'll finally be moving beyond the plot I don't like to something I do like.
Still reading a lot although right now it's The Morganville Vampires books because I'm canon reviewing for Myrnin. I'm trying to take notes as well because so much of what you learn about Myrnin in these books comes from the other characters rather than him. Since he's kind of batshit insane it's hard to trust what he says about himself. I may have figured out how to place his age a bit better. At what point in English history did people start using last names? My Medieval Survey class went over this a little bit but since it was a survey class there were giant leaps of time left out. In any case Myrnin gets referred to as Lord Myrnin of Conroy, the way he would have been at a time period before they started using last names.
My connection speed for some reason lately is sucking hard. I'm gonna have to call my wireless company and talk to them about how ridiculous it is. I'll end up doing it at night because the late night tech support will actually do something for you rather than open a ticket and refer you down to someone else. Undoubtedly along the way the open ticket gets lost, nothing gets done and it's just stupid. I hate our internet provider but unfortunately living out in BFE it's the best option we've got right now.
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I will always adore my Whedonverse shows, but I have to say that The Vampire Diaries quickly became one of my most favorite shows. And it's for the main three characters. I adore Damon, Stefan and Elena. But there's so many to this show that I like as well.
And I'm with you on Supernatural. We only have a week left to wait but I'd like it to start now. :)
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God yes, definitely.