I got my "visitor" yesterday night, but thanks to keeping myself doped up on generic advil ever since Saturday morning, I've gotten by with little to no pain at all. Thank God.
I also went to my instructor Corey's office hours in the Bio Learning Center this afternoon to discuss my lab report with him and turn in my isopods for extra credit, and that went along smoothly too. Apparently my isopods were midgets, though. He said I only had three good-sized ones...the rest were really too small to do anything with, but since he saw I tried, he went along with the twenty that I found and he'll give me 8 points. =)
And brilliant news: THERE IS NO PLAGIARISM!!! HAAAALLLEEELLLUUUJJJAAHHH!
He only wrote that on my paper because I had forgotten one --ONE-- spot where I ought to have placed a reference, and he wanted to make sure I didn't forget in the rewrite. Yeesh. Coulda given a sister a heart-attack, you know. *shakes head*
Anyway, so I also found out that while the class average for the first Cell Signaling midterm was 80, I got a 56. Hmph. I THOUGHT I did well...guess not. But all that will change.
I can see how this fast will help me with so much...It's going to help me get on the right footing with God, which is its main purpose, and an added benefit should be that I lose a bit of weight ;-), as well as the fact that since I'm not doing anything other than schoolwork (and the occasional blog), I can focus on the things that are important. Like studying for the tests that I'll be having every single week up until Thanksgiving break.
Yeah. I said wow, too. It'll be hard work, but I'm actually somewhat looking forward to it. Contrary to popular belief, I actually do like to learn. And study...just not...math.......or chemistry. But other stuff, yes!
And I also happen to enjoy taking tests. Heh. Maybe I'm weird. But uh.....so. This boy who sometimes sits next to me in physics, named Su Deng (that says it all right there) got a 95 on the physics midterm. And he doesn't even take notes in class. Just sits there with his clicker and answers the questions, and then goes home and does the MasteringPhysics homework.
*shakes head* It's people like him who mess up the curve.....but at the same time, that's great for him, that he can actually manage that. At least he's friendly and helps me in class.
So, what I'm going to be doing is blogging (or trying to blog) every evening before I go to bed to fill you in on the day's events and the progress I'm making. This is the first time in my life that I'm attempting anything like this...the extent of my fasting up until now was a three-hour fast here, a five-hour one there...I used to be terrified of them! I once went one week refraining from buttered toast (don't laugh) because the pastor wanted us to give up something that we did often or every day just to practice self sacrifice.
I was miserable.
It went without saying that I had to lose the toast, because I don't watch tv, play video games, I hardly read novels during the schoolyear....and well, what else was I supposed to fast from? I tried school--haha. Didn't cut it with my folks.
Anyway. So, point is, this is my first time with a fast this major. No food 9am-5pm daily, (I only permit myself a coffee or hot chocolate during the day since I'm not used to this yet), no facebook, no twitter, no aim (not that I do that anyway) NO STORY WEBSITES, GAH, and things of the like. And all this for forty days straight. No excuses.
I'm actually very proud of myself that even with my "visitor" I was able to hold out and not eat any food from nine this morning to well...it's 4:42pm now. I nearly caved a few times, but I managed it. Now I know I can do anything!
I've got to finish my MasteringPhysics homework..I have a few questions left--I worked on it earlier today (yay me!). I also worked hard on revising my lab report last night, and I'm quite pleased. I made sure I understood the purpose of the experiment and what was done and WHY. And I showed it to Corey, who said "Good, this is good." SO! (^_^) Color me happy and draw me a smile!
Anyway. Off to the homework now. Cause we're smart like that.
Your smart cookie,
~Cahryn K.
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