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Brief update
Dec. 2nd, 2004 10:03 amScience Center, on the Feast of Ste. Bibiana
What the...? I just received my second physics midterm back, and I got perfect marks. O_O That's the first time I've ever gotten a 100 on an exam since I entered Harvard. Am vaguely flabbergasted because I was sure I did one of the problems incorrectly. Wow. I feel so relieved. That means that despite my not-so-spectacular problem set scores, I can still get an A in this class as long as I do well on the final. Ironically, AP Physics was one of my worst classes in high school (of course, everyone ended up receiving As, but our exam scores were horrible).
Now if I could only pass chemistry...::sighs::
Yesterday, Jenny and I went to Wednesday practice (shock! horror! gasp!) to review kata because we have our very first ranking exam on Friday. We will be tested, among other things, on the first three kata--the first two are not difficult to remember, although executing them cleanly is a different matter, but the third is very, very complicated, and we needed to practice. We plan on practicing tonight too at the MAC. Kata are highly stylized and require a lot of mental concentration, which is why I always tense up and get very sweaty palms. >_> I also always do a bad job of shifting my weight from foot to foot, usually because I get confused about the footwork. I think that's one of the reasons why I'm bad at DDR as well. >_< Kata aren't particularly strenuous, but we realized yesterday that they could be rather mentally tiring. ^_^ We've only learned the first three, and I have no idea what the other four are like (well, other than from the Shoryuhai demonstration last April and from the occasional fuzzy video clip).
Lately I've been successful in my current campaign in the larger crusade for a more balanced/regulated lifestyle. In other words, I actually went to breakfast for the past three days. Unfortunately, the streak was broken this morning. >_< I'm now hungry and in no mood to actually work on my chemistry problem set, which I really ought to do. Also, I slept through Korean yesterday and didn't go to physics lecture on Tuesday--so much for my campaign. I wonder how monks do it: they need to get up in the middle of the night and at ridiculously early hours of the morning and they occupy themselves with manual labor most of the day (I've been reading The Genesee Diary, which is an account of six months spent in a Trappist monastery). Of course, they live a very regulated lifestyle, and the various issues of a monastic life aside, I think it would be nice to have that kind of order and structure in my life. I'd feel a lot less stressed out. Of course, to have that kind of order and structure means having no distractions like surfing the Internet. >_> Seriously, the Internet works by some sort of exponential function: you open up your browser intending to check your email for five minutes, and the longer you stay on, the longer you feel compelled to continue browsing. I ended up reading an 80+ chapter fic Monday night instead of going to sleep like a sane person. (It had a very intriguing plot, even though the obsession with describing clothes was annoying.) Maybe that's why I've been feeling so sleepy lately.
I've also been overwhelmed (in a good way!) by all the great character FSTs on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fst. My computer will never have free space again...but I will now have endless amounts of music--enough to continue playing for five straight days. O_O
All right, off to work on this (impossible) problem set.
Yours &c.
Post-script: Oh yes, rather belatedly, the isLove meme that's been going around my friends list like the flu.
Yes they are! ^_^
What the...? I just received my second physics midterm back, and I got perfect marks. O_O That's the first time I've ever gotten a 100 on an exam since I entered Harvard. Am vaguely flabbergasted because I was sure I did one of the problems incorrectly. Wow. I feel so relieved. That means that despite my not-so-spectacular problem set scores, I can still get an A in this class as long as I do well on the final. Ironically, AP Physics was one of my worst classes in high school (of course, everyone ended up receiving As, but our exam scores were horrible).
Now if I could only pass chemistry...::sighs::
Yesterday, Jenny and I went to Wednesday practice (shock! horror! gasp!) to review kata because we have our very first ranking exam on Friday. We will be tested, among other things, on the first three kata--the first two are not difficult to remember, although executing them cleanly is a different matter, but the third is very, very complicated, and we needed to practice. We plan on practicing tonight too at the MAC. Kata are highly stylized and require a lot of mental concentration, which is why I always tense up and get very sweaty palms. >_> I also always do a bad job of shifting my weight from foot to foot, usually because I get confused about the footwork. I think that's one of the reasons why I'm bad at DDR as well. >_< Kata aren't particularly strenuous, but we realized yesterday that they could be rather mentally tiring. ^_^ We've only learned the first three, and I have no idea what the other four are like (well, other than from the Shoryuhai demonstration last April and from the occasional fuzzy video clip).
Lately I've been successful in my current campaign in the larger crusade for a more balanced/regulated lifestyle. In other words, I actually went to breakfast for the past three days. Unfortunately, the streak was broken this morning. >_< I'm now hungry and in no mood to actually work on my chemistry problem set, which I really ought to do. Also, I slept through Korean yesterday and didn't go to physics lecture on Tuesday--so much for my campaign. I wonder how monks do it: they need to get up in the middle of the night and at ridiculously early hours of the morning and they occupy themselves with manual labor most of the day (I've been reading The Genesee Diary, which is an account of six months spent in a Trappist monastery). Of course, they live a very regulated lifestyle, and the various issues of a monastic life aside, I think it would be nice to have that kind of order and structure in my life. I'd feel a lot less stressed out. Of course, to have that kind of order and structure means having no distractions like surfing the Internet. >_> Seriously, the Internet works by some sort of exponential function: you open up your browser intending to check your email for five minutes, and the longer you stay on, the longer you feel compelled to continue browsing. I ended up reading an 80+ chapter fic Monday night instead of going to sleep like a sane person. (It had a very intriguing plot, even though the obsession with describing clothes was annoying.) Maybe that's why I've been feeling so sleepy lately.
I've also been overwhelmed (in a good way!) by all the great character FSTs on
fst. My computer will never have free space again...but I will now have endless amounts of music--enough to continue playing for five straight days. O_OAll right, off to work on this (impossible) problem set.
Yours &c.
Post-script: Oh yes, rather belatedly, the isLove meme that's been going around my friends list like the flu.
| the three kingdoms are love | |||||
| brought to you by the isLove Generator | |||||
Yes they are! ^_^
