Fortune Telling
Jan. 10th, 2005 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterWhen I was in Seattle, I bought a bag of fortune cookies from Archie McPhee. I recommend that all Seattleites do so at some time or another. I ate a couple of them, and here are my fortunes:
-Your lucky color is chartreuse.
-You develop an adversion to euphemisms, but cannot decide what to name this condition (definitely my favorite).
-You will go for the gold, but wind up bringing home the bacon.
Aside from that, it has been a fairly uneventful day. It was, however, one of those days that decides the future. I'm teaching at a respectable time on Mondays this semester, instead of at 9:30 at night on Thursdays, so I can adjust my sleeping schedule to something resembling normal. Okay, maybe not normal, but at least regular. The folks in my lab figured out when we'll be holding lab meetings, and since my registration apparently didn't process, I registered for classes. Or make that for A class. Hallelujah! I'm so tired of taking classes. I never thought I'd say that. But it's interfering with my ability to do research. Folks, classes are easy compared to research, which is time-consuming and often inconvenient. But I love it anyway.
Lastly, this morning I had my first crew practice in a month or more. I got sick at the end of the fall, so I took two weeks off, and then 'twas time to go to Seattle...and here I am, completely and utterly out of shape. I haven't been this out of shape in a reeeeeeeally long time. But not for long, because I'm now back to rowing five days a week! Something else that will regularize my schedule. There are some weird crew politics surrounding the whole thing, though. I'm not rowing with the City of Tempe anymore. I'm now rowing with Tempe Rowing Unlimited, coached by the guy I was coaching juniors with. Sadly, I don't think I'll be able to coach anymore because of my present jam-packed schedule. Sigh. In any case, hopefully this switcharoo will be easier on my back and will help me make more technical improvements to my rowing so I can go faster. I can't really comment on the crew politics too much--I just know my own perspective. I'm tired of trying to organize trips to regattas, only to show up and have terrible equipment. And I'm tired of rowing in terrible equipment on a day-to-day basis. And, quite frankly, I'm tired of not feeling like I'm getting technical help that makes me go faster. But enough blathering. My mind is made up, and I've made a switch. If it doesn't work out, I'll switch again to something different. Just as long as I can keep on rowing.
-Your lucky color is chartreuse.
-You develop an adversion to euphemisms, but cannot decide what to name this condition (definitely my favorite).
-You will go for the gold, but wind up bringing home the bacon.
Aside from that, it has been a fairly uneventful day. It was, however, one of those days that decides the future. I'm teaching at a respectable time on Mondays this semester, instead of at 9:30 at night on Thursdays, so I can adjust my sleeping schedule to something resembling normal. Okay, maybe not normal, but at least regular. The folks in my lab figured out when we'll be holding lab meetings, and since my registration apparently didn't process, I registered for classes. Or make that for A class. Hallelujah! I'm so tired of taking classes. I never thought I'd say that. But it's interfering with my ability to do research. Folks, classes are easy compared to research, which is time-consuming and often inconvenient. But I love it anyway.
Lastly, this morning I had my first crew practice in a month or more. I got sick at the end of the fall, so I took two weeks off, and then 'twas time to go to Seattle...and here I am, completely and utterly out of shape. I haven't been this out of shape in a reeeeeeeally long time. But not for long, because I'm now back to rowing five days a week! Something else that will regularize my schedule. There are some weird crew politics surrounding the whole thing, though. I'm not rowing with the City of Tempe anymore. I'm now rowing with Tempe Rowing Unlimited, coached by the guy I was coaching juniors with. Sadly, I don't think I'll be able to coach anymore because of my present jam-packed schedule. Sigh. In any case, hopefully this switcharoo will be easier on my back and will help me make more technical improvements to my rowing so I can go faster. I can't really comment on the crew politics too much--I just know my own perspective. I'm tired of trying to organize trips to regattas, only to show up and have terrible equipment. And I'm tired of rowing in terrible equipment on a day-to-day basis. And, quite frankly, I'm tired of not feeling like I'm getting technical help that makes me go faster. But enough blathering. My mind is made up, and I've made a switch. If it doesn't work out, I'll switch again to something different. Just as long as I can keep on rowing.
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