Ok so sue me its like a week into May. See my "Not gonna be posting much till June" thread. I gots other things on my mind! :p

I am SO freaking excited!! I am going to LA/SoCal this weekend!!! Going to see my favorite band The Delphines!! They won't be playing live shows for quite a while (see my Delphines thread in Lesser-Known Artists) and I really wanted to get to this show. It didn't look like it was gonna happen, till yesterday!!! My Delphines show goin' buddy (Leina Rose of the forumz, and my bestest buddy since sophmore year in HS) got the weekend off so we are gonna road trip it down there! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! This is so what I needed right now!

And I'm in a good mood cuz I have a critical theory paper due tomorrow-AND I ALREADY DID IT!!!! I'm not procrastinating! Yay!!

I'm loving sticking to my new eating plan. I don't have that sluggish feeling after eating anymore (yay for fighting the carb addiction! I didn't toatally cut them out, I just cut back!) and I'm feeling very good about it this time.
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Originally posted by Rose Bud
And I'm in a good mood cuz I have a critical theory paper due tomorrow-AND I ALREADY DID IT!!!! I'm not procrastinating! Yay!!

Good for you! :) Technically I don't have to start procrastinating until June when I go back to school. But I could be working on my independent research now for the fall but, hey, there is always tomorrow! But for real, I'm like actually going to do the rest of my Italian workbook just so I have it done for the fall so I don't have to worry about taking 3 hours out of my week to devote to just the workbook. (I seriously am a nerd! :p My Italian prof would be proud of me :D )

-angeles
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It felt good to actually have time to proofread and revise my paper a little. Many a time have I handed in a paper with errors that SHOULD have been caught by proofreading!

Yesterday was a rough day for me when it came to assignments, but I got through it! I had THREE things due. But they all got done the way I wanted them to.

I felt rather triumphant yesterday. We had some leftover pizza in our fridge. I didn't eat it for breakfast or anything, I had the strength to toss it in the garbage. (it was a couple days old)

Its gonna be a little harder for me to keep up with eating well this weekend, but I'm gonna try my hardest. I know I'll have to eat out (haven't except for that pizza tuesday night, which I did ok with) a bit more than I want to, but it'll just be about me making smart choices.
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ARRRRRRGH. I am hating school right now.

I was working on my three paper re-writes for my senior seminar portfolio. 2 of the re-writes went ok, no problem. The third one, which I had the class workshop, I had to end up re-writing the last 3 pages becuase I changed the focus of the paper (admittedly, it needed it). And I'm running into major writers block! I KNOW what I have to write. I have the quotes all highlighted in the book. I know the points I want to make. The are just getting lost somwhere between my mind and my fingers. Maybe I should go get something to eat and then try again after lunch. Plus I should try to stop thinking about how long the paper was before I decided to do the major re-write. I should just forget that and write when I want to write and then worry about how long it is.

I was worrying about my marketing paper that's due next week, but I don't even care about that right now. I am just in that class for the units.

I guess once I get all these re-writes off my hands I'll be a much happier person.
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VenusFetish-Try Tylenol Allergy and Sinus first! My husband is a big time allergy sufferer. He's tried Claritin, Allegra, Zyrtec, you name it. None of it works on him. The one thing that does work is Tylenol! I'm just suggesting to give it a try, since you never know. And if not, if memory serves me right (which it might not!) the makers one of the prescription only allergy medications is losing their patent on the medication, so other brands will be able to make "generic" versions of it.

Grrr I'm so mad at myself! I got my critical theory paper back today. I know I had gotten it done early, but did I mention I did a really half assed job on it? I got a C on it. At first I was upset, but then I realized the paper got what it deserved. I'm meeting with my professor the week before my other paper is due, so I can run all of my thesis ideas and focal points by her to make sure they are ok. If I had just done that the first time, I would have done much better.

But, I got another assignment back today in another class and I did well on that one. I had to do an interview with someone who has my dream job for my Senior Seminar class. I got it back today and I got an A on that one. But I'm still a little upset over not being able to get straight A's this quarter. My goal now is to just get my GPA over a 3.0.
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Ohh yeah, forgot to mention my French Translation test today. It went ok. It took me the full 2 hours I was allotted.(damn and I thought I was good at translation) I hope I passed it. I know there are a couple things I didn't translate right. But I had to translate a version of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. I just went and looked up what the legend was, and for the most part I translated it correctly. There was one thing, that I realize now, that I couldn't translate without knowing the legend itself (which isn't fair, some people just don't know mythology! and I'm one of them) And if I didn't pass it, I can scramble to get the "waiver of residence" approved to take the test after I am finished with my classes.
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I picked up my cap and gown yesterday. I'm very glad that with college graduations, you don't have to purchase your gown. Its a rental that I have to give back after the ceremony. I still have my middle and high school graduation gowns that have not been touched in years! (Though, I was gonna lend my sister my old middle school graduation gown, because she graduates from the 8th grade this year, from the same school I went to, but she's shorter than I was back them!) I do however get to keep the cap. So I'm gonna decorate the top, with "HI MOM" in big glittery letters, so my family can spot me :)

Still no word on whether or not I passed the translation test. I should be hearing soon, I hope.

I got my big 10 page marketing paper off my hands yesterday! That was the biggest thing I had to do this quarter. All the rest of what I have to do really isn't that hard.
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Hey everyone; I'm so sorry I haven't been around much recently. Personal 'issues'. ;)

Well, I stopped exercising for about a month because I feared I was becoming too obsessive about it. Now, though, well I feel that I am in a place where I can dedicate myself to something again without it taking over my life; I have the control this time. So, I've been doing an abundance of exercise.

For some reason, ab exercises just don't challenge me anymore. I did almost 800 crunches the other day and barely felt a thing. I did 675 more today and still nothing. I put a weight across my abs but it still didn't really do anything. :t What, am I superhuman or something??!!!! And I did 100 knee raises today in the hope that it would annihilate my abs, and I guess we'll find out tomorrow whether it worked or not by the amount of pain I experience simply by breathing. :p

Are there any advanced ab exercises I can do? Please bear in mind I don't have access to a gym so I have to improvise at home. I'm running out of ideas. :s

Oh, and today I also did 100 angled calf raises (ouch!) and 100 squats (I'm really feeling that now.. my legs feel like jelly). :n

Rose Bud, it sounds like you're doing really well!!!!

Jordie
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Well, after a few it does burn, but after a while it goes away. I want PAIN, damn it! :s
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It is an immense misconception that the "burn" is a good thing, or pain is progress. The man who holds the record in the Guiness Book of Records for the most amount of crunches hit something in the thousands, in a row. I bet he sure felt the burn, yet when he showed his stomach, you couldn't see a single ab, even with a magnifying glass.

The "burn" you feel in all reality, is very similar to the first stages of rigor mortis in corpses. When you train to feel this burn, the muscles become exhausted, stiffen, and are spending their time recovering from over-taxing, and not hardening. Your muscles strengthen and harden when they are put under tension, not exhaustion. Whoever said pain was good? Pain is our body's way of telling us something is wrong.

All these modern day gym rats I see are dedicated to "feeling the burn" and training until failure. Yet, these muscleheads are stuck at the same weights and build for years, and can't figure out why. I myself will tell my clients (with free weight training) to find a weight they can fail out at 8 reps with, then never go above 5 reps with that weight. Great results, to say the least.

A single crunch should take anywhere from 2-5 seconds, with the lower back never having left the ground. If you can execute more than 15-25, your form and concentration may be off, and you need to re-evaluate it. Just remember, tension equals force. A hard body is a bi-product of force exuded.

Of course, that is just my two cents.
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