November 18, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: None!
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 2

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw the new Bond movie. It's pretty good.
2. Packed for to go HOME!
3. Dinner out with Jason and his mom. Also pretty good.
4. DIDN'T DO ANY WORK! Whew, I have to start up again on the plane tomorrow, but it was sooo nice to have a couple of days off.

November 17, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: None!
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 2.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Last section for a whole week!
2. No late afternoon practice.
3. Much hanging out with Jason.
4. Games night.
5. Chocolate ice cream!

November 16, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: None!
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. Ate dinner with my co-captain. It was a good chance to chat.
3. BEAT a really good guy at fencing (despite the fact that I had the massive headache of DOOOOM)!
4. Free Krispy Kremes!

November 15, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Patterson Beyond the Passion
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 7

Good things that happened today:
1. Weights went well.
2. TWELVE ROWS of knitting!
3. Lunch with Jason.
4. Pretty good seminar in the afternoon.
5. Finished all of my reading due this week!

November 14, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Patterson Beyond the Passion, Cather O Pioneers!
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 8
Quote: "Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account." - John W. Gardner

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. My coach cancelled our afternoon lesson, but I was able to make it up tonight.
3. Decent fencing practice.
4. Learned that Friday practice may well be cancelled.

November 13, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Dickens Our Mutual Friend, Patterson Beyond the Passion
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6

Good things that happened today:
1. Weights went pretty well.
2. I got ELEVEN AND A QUARTER ROWS of knitting done!
3. Dickens! Tea! Puppy! Kitten!
4. Lunch with Jason.
5. Though it sometimes was raining really hard today, there was never more than a light drizzle at any point when I had to be outside.

November 12, 2006

Music: Goo Goo Dolls dizzy up the girl
Reading: Patterson Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5

Good things that happened today:
1. Good brunch (excellent buttermilk pancakes and Darjeeling) and a beautiful drive up in the hills with my dad.
2. Wrote my paper.
3. Got some knitting done.
4. The guy who totally flaked out on the knitting group after the first meeting gave me my needles back. (He said he used my yarn, though... grr.)