Today's Journey
Jan. 21st, 2006 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateOkay, so I thought I would have an uneventful day... and for the most part I guess that's true. No more of my animals died at least. For those of you who also read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crabbyolbastard you know that our cat Loki was in hospital for another unknown infection. Fortunately I knew the warning signs from last time - and I learned a couple more from this time as well - and we got him in sooner.
Today, my final version of the study plan was rejected, too much anthro, not enough economics. So I had to add the Resource Economics class to my schedule (after missing the first class). I may have to drop both the Women & Culture along with the Democratization of Latin America - pity, I enjoyed the first W&C class immensely. I also ended (just in case I do have to drop the other two - which now directly conflict with the new class, which originally wouldn't have but the teacher reassigned the day/time, gah!) signing back up for the Plants & People Anthro class. The good news is that I only have to do a 3 credit Plan B paper so I may be able to graduate, if not on time then at least only a month or so after the usual May graduation date. I could care less about the pomp and ceremony, I just want the degree.
Then at lunch today. HA! We were all discussing going hiking and camping (in general) starting to make plans for the coming season, and of course tales of the past came up. Talk started centering around Mount Washington and Mount Monadnock, how plenty of people who hike unprepared die on the first and how the second is "one of the most climbed" and so forth. Again a tale of the past comes up CoB and his brother comparing notes from the last time they climbed Monadnock together - his brother doesn't remember anything unusual while CoB claimed he was two days in serious pain. He was also talking about how in shape he was at the time from cycling, then both his Mom and I at the same time started talking about if you are really in shape using a specific set of muscles - when you use the muscles that aren't typically used during your usual training regimen then OF COURSE you would be in pain after a strenuous working of them. I then, in relation to the Mount Washington part of the discussion, quipped:
It's the unused muscle that kills you.
CoB turned to look at me... then tapped his finger to the side of his head... and we both start cracking up laughing. Since we're so in sync with each other (scary sometimes) we were both thinking of well, people in general not using their noggin to solve what seems to be common sense day to day events. And the not so common events. Politicians, hikers of Mt. Washington, everyone. Not that I'm implying that the brain is a muscle, come on folks. It is something else, however, that we refer to as "exercising" when we use it. Maybe you had to be there.
Then we all ended up at Eastern Mountain Sports, checking out the gear. Where was I to be found? Right underneath my kayak of course. It is on sale too - 30% off. I got the usual though, it won't fit through the door and I gotta get a job and be making money, and I'd need a roof rack too, etc, etc. *painful sigh*
So now, the science-cheese-geekfest is on. Dante's Peak (with Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton and the boy child in Third Rock From the Sun) followed up by the new sci-fi thriller MAGMA. Yeah.
crabbyolbastard you know that our cat Loki was in hospital for another unknown infection. Fortunately I knew the warning signs from last time - and I learned a couple more from this time as well - and we got him in sooner.Today, my final version of the study plan was rejected, too much anthro, not enough economics. So I had to add the Resource Economics class to my schedule (after missing the first class). I may have to drop both the Women & Culture along with the Democratization of Latin America - pity, I enjoyed the first W&C class immensely. I also ended (just in case I do have to drop the other two - which now directly conflict with the new class, which originally wouldn't have but the teacher reassigned the day/time, gah!) signing back up for the Plants & People Anthro class. The good news is that I only have to do a 3 credit Plan B paper so I may be able to graduate, if not on time then at least only a month or so after the usual May graduation date. I could care less about the pomp and ceremony, I just want the degree.
Then at lunch today. HA! We were all discussing going hiking and camping (in general) starting to make plans for the coming season, and of course tales of the past came up. Talk started centering around Mount Washington and Mount Monadnock, how plenty of people who hike unprepared die on the first and how the second is "one of the most climbed" and so forth. Again a tale of the past comes up CoB and his brother comparing notes from the last time they climbed Monadnock together - his brother doesn't remember anything unusual while CoB claimed he was two days in serious pain. He was also talking about how in shape he was at the time from cycling, then both his Mom and I at the same time started talking about if you are really in shape using a specific set of muscles - when you use the muscles that aren't typically used during your usual training regimen then OF COURSE you would be in pain after a strenuous working of them. I then, in relation to the Mount Washington part of the discussion, quipped:
It's the unused muscle that kills you.
CoB turned to look at me... then tapped his finger to the side of his head... and we both start cracking up laughing. Since we're so in sync with each other (scary sometimes) we were both thinking of well, people in general not using their noggin to solve what seems to be common sense day to day events. And the not so common events. Politicians, hikers of Mt. Washington, everyone. Not that I'm implying that the brain is a muscle, come on folks. It is something else, however, that we refer to as "exercising" when we use it. Maybe you had to be there.
Then we all ended up at Eastern Mountain Sports, checking out the gear. Where was I to be found? Right underneath my kayak of course. It is on sale too - 30% off. I got the usual though, it won't fit through the door and I gotta get a job and be making money, and I'd need a roof rack too, etc, etc. *painful sigh*
So now, the science-cheese-geekfest is on. Dante's Peak (with Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton and the boy child in Third Rock From the Sun) followed up by the new sci-fi thriller MAGMA. Yeah.
