Newsletter
First published: Dec. 13, 2006, 8:35 p.m.
Last edited: Dec. 13, 2006, 8:35 p.m.
Last edited: Dec. 13, 2006, 8:35 p.m.
Selected portions of my Weekly Reports for this semester
- 9/11
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Good. Deep down, I'm a little morose with life in general, but that's fairly average for me I think. I don't know how much detail you want here. Just to go a little further, I'm pretty lonely a lot of the time, even when I'm surrounded by people. :)
However, ostensibly I'm really doing well. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
My classes are going really well. Pretty much no homework.
I keep telling people I'll do stuff for them like make them websites and stuff. I've gotten to the point where I have a priority queue so I don't stress out about it and I do say no occasionally, but I've had stuff on the back burner for years that cause a basic underlying sense of guilt about not getting more of my todo list done. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Academically, I need to be doing CSCI research. I'm not sure I'll have time or motivation for that. Otherwise my grades are good and my classes are fun.
Personal goals tend to fall by the wayside. This sounds so cliche, but I'd like to find out what the truth, just in general, is. Probably mostly in a spiritual sense. I have a lot of books on the topic that I've been planning to read for years but probably never will. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
I'd like Centennial to have a bike pump so I could pump up my unicycle tire. I'm also considering getting a mandolin and a book to teach myself. Uhm, I have an action group with Crusade that meets weekly for Bible Study.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 9/18
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
I'm doing pretty good. I think I'm getting sick though. I have a sore throat. :( - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
I'm stressed about all the stuff to do. I have a lot more responsibilities at Cru since our last servant team meeting. I think I might be overworking myself to death, which is funny, because last week I felt like I had no homework or anything to do. I have lots of homework now.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 9/25
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Pretty good. I got a new cellphone. I've been waiting for my old contract to expire for months. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
I feel pretty settled in to the CA job. I don't mind rounds and I like being on desk, so things are good.
I'm slowly getting on top of all the things I have to do, but it's slow going, so a little stress is a good motivator. - Any comments about the grub or your accommodations?
Still miss those burgers. I've been taking 4 or so whenever they have them and keeping a stash in the front desk refrigerator. That's probably not acceptable. Let me know. But just if you're wondering what those are from. I'm also confused about the air conditioner not working.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 10/2
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
I'm really stinking hot. The weather is too warm for the window being open at night to cool my room down, and the AC is off. So I slept poorly. My dreams were weird.
Haha. Other than that, I'm pretty okay. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
I think most things are going well, though my growing todo list is stressing me out like crazy. I haven't been able to go visit any friends from last year as I have too much to do. I feel really bad about it, so that's a stressor. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
I don't know if I said this, but I'm leading a team in Crusade now for information dissemination, so I'm delegating all of my Tech jobs to other people now. Which may or may not be more work, but it's a little challenging. I don't know. :)
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 10/9
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Pretty okay I think. I'm not morose. Haha. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
Well: I reorganized and cleaned my room! I'm pretty pleased about it. I feel more on top of things. Even though I'm not.
Stress: I never thought my todo list could get any longer. Holy cow. I have so much to do I don't have any foreseeable free time in the coming weeks whatsoever. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Slowly but surely. I'm not convinced I have any goals more than just getting good grades this semester and completing all of the CA objectives. - Any comments about the grub or your accommodations?
I've been noticing more burgers. Yay! Also, I should probably inform someone of this. It's all safe and good, so don't worry, but I took the desk lamp off the wall of my room so I could put my bed there. Of course, it was wired to the wall, so I had to unwire it. I figured by shutting off the switch the wires wouldn't be live, but turns out, they were, because the rest of the lights in the room went out when I was unhooking it. I put the twisty electricians caps on all of the cables so that it looks just how it did, sans lamp, and there's no exposed cables anywhere. It's completely safe and everything is good now, but yeah, probably you should know. I made extensive documentation to put it back exactly how it was, too.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 10/16
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Not so great. I'm going to go into the doctor today. My lungs haven't worked all weekend, really. It feels like horrible asthma, but it's been consistent, which is unusual. Maybe that has something to do with my asthma prescription running out. Anyway, I need to be seen by some medical professionals. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
Hmm, most things are going well, but I keep complaining about my todo list. Each week though, I look at my todo list and wonder how last week's todo list even possibly stressed me out compared to this one. I'm probably overworking myself. I'd like to see what happens if I make it through this week. :) - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Okay. I wish I wasn't so sick. I went to that Campus Crusade retreat this weekend, and that surely didn't help my health, but that was fun. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
Try and be more organized so I can actually achieve all I plan to. :)
It will probably be a good skill for the future.
Oh, and my room for the first few weeks was the messiest ever. I've totally been awesome at keeping it clean.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 10/23
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Good. I did no homework this weekend. I had a whole bunch of stuff due last week, so I just lounged around all weekend. I needed it. Yay! - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
Most things are going pretty well, and surprisingly enough I'm not too stressed. I mean, I am, but my todo list is starting to shrink a little. There's a light at the end of the tunnel!
Oh, and I'm not sick anymore. Last weekend I was really sick and went to the doctor to see what was wrong with my lungs. Turns out they were at only 60% workingness. Sad day! So I got steroids and I can breathe again. My followup appointment is today. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
I spent a lot of this weekend teaching myself a new programming language, and I decided that my first program would be a Dr. Mario knock off. So I started writing that, which is good because I haven't sat down to write a program in a long time, and that's very relaxing for me. Hopefully I don't burn out and leave it unfinished like all of my other projects.
I need to do laundry sometime.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 10/30
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Good. I'm sort of sleepy as usual. I fell on my bike the other day and sort of scraped up my hand, so that still hurts. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
Hmm. I don't know. I'm doing a pretty good job just keeping my prescriptions filled I think. :)
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 11/06
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
I don't know. My body hates me. I think it's joined the other side or something. I woke up the other day with my spine hurting so bad that I couldn't take a full breath. I don't even know what I did. I have like, 4 doctors appointments I need to make this week.
Furthermore, whatever team my body is on, my bike joined that team. I thought I fixed it for the 6th time last week, but today, the pedals basically fell out. I didn't even know that was possible.
Otherwise I'm pretty fantastic. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
Most things are going well. I'm not terribly morose, so that means good things.
I'm stressed about making it to all the doctors appointments I have though. I hope nothing's wrong with me. Nothing that WD40 can't fix I mean. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Pretty okay. I suppose this question would be easier to answer if I felt I had any. I struggle with this question every week.
Personal goals: achieving my academic and CA goals, and not dying. So far so good.
Academic goals: not failing. So far so good.
CA goals: Completing all objectives in a better than minimalist way. Haha. So far pretty good. I need to finish my bulletin boards though. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
Make sure I continue breathing. Apparently that's been challenging. :)
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 11/13
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Pretty okay. Physically I seem to be deteriorating more rapidly than I would have hoped. My bike is still in the same shape. Otherwise, things are pretty peachy. I'm thinking about going home to Utah for Thanksgiving, but I haven't looked into it at all. - What's going well? What's stressing you out?
A lot of stuff I'm doing is started to get near crunch time. I have a semester project due tomorrow, along with lots of other long assignments. I had a meeting on Friday with a research team that I'm thinking about joining. My job has some deadlines coming up. I mean, what's going well is I think I'm going to make all the deadlines, but it's stressful that I have them. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Good. I keep forgetting to do things like study for midterms because I'm feeling sort of stretched thin. I was working on huge projects for Computer Science all weekend and never checked my Economics schedule. Definitely had a huge midterm this morning. I think I did okay though. Good thing I went to class!
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 11/20
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Pretty good. I made the mistake of not getting time off for Saturday night, but I was standing out in the cold from 10pm-8 am for a new Nintendo. I got it though, so woohoo! I finally went to bed yesterday at 8pm and slept for 12 hours after a like, 36 hour day.
Unfortunately, I didn't do any homework this weekend, and I have a big research paper due Tuesday and a Midterm today. I suspect my productivity is not going to be great. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
I'm doing research papers the day before they're due!
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 11/27
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Pretty good. I'm still in Utah. I really enjoyed Thanksgiving and I'm really liking seeing my family. I'll be back early tomorrow afternoon though.
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be doing a weekly report this week, so I figured I'd do one anyway. I don't really have much at all to say though, seeing as how I haven't been around really since Wednesday. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Same as usual. I'm taking 6 classes next semester, so that's good academically. One is research, so that helps graduating with honors (I need some research experience)
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
- 12/4
- How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Pretty good. I finished a huge milestone at my other job this weekend, so that's good, but I still have a lot to do for them. Academically, I think my lowest grade is like, really not low at all. So, that's real great. CA goals, I need to run to Target and buy lots of marshmallows for our war I'm starting, and gift cards for study buxx. I also need to jumpstart this week's super awesome bulletin boards. - What are you doing to strrrrrretch, grow, and challenge yourself?
I seem to be trying to kill myself with stuff to do.
That's challenging. :)
- How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
- 12/11
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?
Pretty darn good! I've been real productive for the last week. I feel really on top of stuff. So that's good. - How is progress towards your personal, academic, and CA goals going?
Good! I feel relatively on top of everything. Academically I'm doing pretty great as far as I know. Personally, my room is clean and I don't feel like a slob this week. CA stuff has been going swimmingly.
- First of all - how are YOUUUUU doing?