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First day of the new semester!

My clothes are lain out nicely.

The clock strikes 6:15 and yells at me to wake up.

I roll out of bed, ninja style of course (the whole reason for having my bed on the floor) and Karate chop it to shut up!

What… woozy… I sit back down.

Sore throat…

Why won’t air move through my nose…

Oh no… I’m sick, for the 3rd day in a row. I thought I had nixed this. I took nyquil all week!

Welp, not time to dwell on that.

15 minutes later, I’m out the door and on the way to the weight room.

I lift.

I get dressed for class.

I leave my car on west and trolly over to East for class.

Psych of Personality. Looks fun! Hi Amanda, Hi Pera, Hi Mike! I know three people in here!

I get back on the trolly. CHAPEL! Hi Terry Franson!

Next Class, Intermediate Algebra! Booooo! Oh well, had to take a Math class at some point…

*Pause!*

OK, so a word to the wise, TAKE YOUR MATH CLASS EARLY! Even if your last class was geometry and it was Sophomore year of high school, you are still more in tune with Math than you think and it can only get worse! TAKE YOUR MATH CLASS EARLY! DON’T WAIT TILL YOUR SENIOR YEAR!

*Resume*

Its noon! Practice in an hour. Drive back to my apt, and walk over to the track.

First practice equals: HILLS*!!!

*The hills workout is where we head up Grand Avenue into a residential area who’s streets are, you guessed it, on a hill. We run up, we walk down, we run farther, we walk down, we run faster, we walk down, we do this over and over according to how hard the workout is for that day. It can be one of the most grueling workouts on the APU Track and Field Team, complete with throwing up in gutters on occasion.

We are done by 3:30pm. Dinner! I head to the Den! Mmmm, Western Burger!

4:15pm now, Time for Abnormal Psych Class. Hi Mandy, Hi Quesso (Formerly Known as Alyssa), Hi Jonathan. This should be a fun class too!

1.5 hours pass. Class is over! time for work!

I head into the office! EXPLOSION! EVERYONE GOT A NEW COMPUTER OR XBOX OR PS3 FOR CHRISTMAS! Oh my gosh! This is insane! So much to do!

I stay till 9.

Time for Senior Chapel.

What… we are playing Board games? Way to end a long day!

New episode of Legend Of the Seeker was last night! Karl and Blair want to watch. So do I… I’m tired though… but, its only 10…

LETS DO IT!

11pm. Time for bed.

6:15, the Alarm goes off. WHAT! but.. but.. but… why?

The rest of the week was not as bad, it got easier, being sick did not help as much, but 11 days later, and only my throat is irritated, so we are off to an almost cured Staphon.

Its interesting every new semester, how long it takes to get acclimated to a new schedule. It takes about 2 weeks to get used to in my experience. No one really know’s their Professors, everyone is figuring out routes to get around the day, strategies, but thats what’s fun, at least for me, who’s strength is strategy.

Lets see what this week has in store for me!

…Is that El Niño!?

TO BE CONTINUED…

Tags: Academics, class, first day, new semester, schedule, sick

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