Setbacks, a Part of Life

I have said many times in posts before about how I'm going to be finished with school come August of this year. Everything seemed like it was going down that road. Well, yesterday I found out one of the classes I'm taking during the summer got cancelled. Great! It's offered twice during the fall, but I don't want to stay here for one class. Then I was told to screw the summer classes and just take those classes during fall and take the summer off. Honestly, I don't want to wait any longer than I have to do. I'm meeting with my advisor tomorrow and hopefully he can tell me that this class is offered online elsewhere, or if I can do something else in place of it, or get it waived. This is the same advisor that underestimated my ability to do anything. He didn't think I could handle an independent study...well I've proved thus far that I can. So until I meet with my advisor tomorrow I can't say which way this is going to go. I'm hoping in my favor. It just seems that nothing as of recent has come easy for me. I keep stumbling upon these setbacks. So far I've been able to get around them, but not without working at them first. I know setbacks are a part of life, but I look around and everyone seems to be so successful and don't have to go through these issues. It's just one class! Why do they do this? I've been told that setbacks make you stronger. If thats the case I will be the strongest person I know. I'm afraid that I will have wasted all this time and energy I will have nothing left to fight for anything else. I want to graduate so bad! It's what I'm fighting for right now and I'm not going to give up!

Miles for Causes

Ok, so people do specific races to raise money for specific causes like diabetes, cancer, etc. I've been doing lots of thinking, well some thinking anyways about how I could put my everyday walking/running to good use. I enjoy exercising, but sometimes it becomes monotonus and I try to mix things up. Sure I do strength training and taebo some zumba among others. But there is nothing like getting outside and enjoying the fresh air and taking a walk or a run. Why can't what I do everyday, such as walking be put to good use? Why should we wait for a special marathon to raise money? Ok granted it would get really expensive really quick depending on how I figure it out, especially on my salary. I first thought of for every mile I walked/ran I would donate a dollar to a chosen fund. Then I started to think, you know how many miles I could log in a day and then in week? I might sound a little selfish if I don't give that much, but I also need to live too! Then I thought maybe a dollar for every 5 miles I walk/run. This seems rather reasonable to me. I'm not sure what fund I would give money to. Perhaps every 2 wks I would accumulate miles and money and send it off to one cause and keep rotating between places. This would also continue to be an encourager for me to keep working out everyday knowing I have something else to workout for. I still haven't figured out all the logistics of it, but I don't think it could be too complicated. Then one day I will walk/run/bike across the USofA and raise money along the way for the cause of my choice, but thats along way off yet. I would also like some people to accompany me on that eventual journey! Peace and Love!

SpRiNg BrEaK

I just got back to school after a nice relaxing spring break. I was not like every other college student who goes far away on vacation to get a nice tan and get drunk. I went down to Florida to visit my parents. I didn't do a whole lot mainly caught up on some reading and watched lots of crap on TV. I was going to do homework and I should have so now I'm going to have a really rough first week back trying to get it all done. Here is a quick review of what I did this week. Saturday I traveled 7 hrs to Florida. I met my parents at this podunk little town because they wanted to go to a chocolate festival. Low and behold there was no chocolate at the chocolate festival. That was very disappointing. So we ate at a local diner and drove another hr to get back home. On Monday I went to the allergist to see if they could give me something to stop my nose from running. That was an epic fail. The doctor prescribed more asthma medications, well that isn't going to help my nose and my horrible allergies. Hopefully by next year I will be in a place where my allergies won't be so bad. I also went out to dinner with my aunt and uncle that night. On Tuesday my dad and I went to see the movie Rango. Which was a pretty good movie. I liked the western themed music. All week I helped my aunt and uncle by taking there 3 dogs outside and playing with them while they were at work. I got paid pretty good for my work! :) Finally my last day was St. Patty's day and my mom, a friend of hers and I went out to a piano bar. I drank a few Guiness' in honor of the Irish. Pretty much the best beer ever created. Everyone was decked out in their green clothes and hats and beads. It was a fun night! Then yesterday I returned to S. Carolina after a long drive, or so it seemed. Having plenty of beers and not enough sleep the night before didn't help my cause. Lesson learned I suppose. That is about it. Back to school on Monday, finishing the semester, final homestretch!

Almost, but not quite

I don't follow much of my college's sports teams mainly because they all stink. I also don't have time to go to games as I'm busy working and trying to keep up with school work. Today CCU's mens basketball team had a chance to be the first team to make it into the NCAA basketball tourney. They were ranked number 1 in their conference, but fell short today against UNC Asheville. Not once during the game did they have a lead and the closest they got was within 2 points and at times were behind by 10pts. In the end it wasn't enough. This is the second year they have lost in the conference championship and unable to clinch a ticket to the big dance. It makes me wonder what could have been if they had their 2 star players playing. One was injured a few games ago and the other was suspended at the beginning of this year. The basketball team has also been under investigation for illegal recruiting which seems to be a problem across many campuses. I wonder if this had any impact on their play as well.