5:342 Good Talk

Today I talked to my grad school advisor on the phone. We talked for nearly half an hour. It was a really good discussion. We talked about career goals, course options, and my plan for the next two terms. It was really productive and it made me feel pretty good about my plans going forward. It’s nice to be on the same page and to know I have options for some of the courses I wasn’t as enthusiastic about. Tomorrow I register for next term, and then on Friday I will be talking to one of my professors about options for a few waivers so I can sub in classes I am more interested in.

5:341 Delicious

Today I took a break from school work to make brownies. The husband made the excellent suggestion of making them in our cast iron pan. It was a success and now I have delicious brownies to enjoy whole I get back to work.

5:340 Write

Today I took a 3 hour course that was sponsored by the library in modern copperplate handwriting. We got to use nib pens with ink and learn how to modulate the pressure we used in order to change the thickness of the line we put down. We learned common strokes that make up most letters, and then the letters themselves. Three hours isn’t a lot of time, but it was a lot of fun and went pretty well. By the end, I felt like I had progressed pretty decently, and I was definitely making some cool looking words!

5:339 Miss

So I missed writing yesterday. I came home from work early because I had put in extra time at training events. I had intended on working on a paper that is due soon, but that was not to be. Instead I came home and my head started to pound until I couldn’t move my head without feeling almost sick. So I went to bed pretty early and just passed out until the alarm went off. I wasted a lot of time not doing my essay, but at the same time, I can’t help that I couldn’t look at the computer screen without the letters being fuzzy and swimming.So yeah, I didn’t write yesterday, but you probably wouldn’t have been able to read it if I had.

5:338 Grades

I’ve been working on not letting my grades define me as a student. I don’t want to stop myself from taking risks or trying something new out of fear for my GPA. Obviously I have to get Cs to stay in the program, but what I’m really talking about is feeling good with Bs. Well, all of that intention is really trying me right now. This is week 5, and while I have turned in numerous assignments (that I think I’m doing right), neither of my classes have given me a grade on any of them. And while I think I’m doing okay with taking academic risks, I know I’m not handling the lack of feedback well. At this point, if I’m doing it wrong, I might not be able to do much to course correct. I (think) that lower grades because I tried something hard are fine,  but lower grades because I didn’t know I wasn’t delivering what was wanted? Not okay.

5:337 Warm

I bought legwarmers about a month ago,and they were seriously the best investment since the weather here decided to be, well, winter. I only bought one pair (brown), but since it seems like this frozen hellscape is here for good, what color do you suggest I get for pair two?

5:336 Quilting

On Friday I got to hang out with a quilting guild that meets once a month to spend a day quilting together at the library.It was nice to meet other quilters and spend time checking out their projects and talking about my own. I have some time to decide if I want to join their guild, but in the meantime, I might also attend their business meeting tomorrow night. Honestly, the main thing keeping me from being 100% on board with attending is that this weather sucks.

5:335 Recipes

I’m in a cooking slump. We’ve been eating the same rotating ten-ish recipes for the past few months.Does anyone have a recipe they love? It doesn’t even matter what it’s for, I just need to try something new. Throw some favorites my way, please!

5:334 Create

Sometimes the mood is right,and I just really want to make something, but what that something is, isn’t always clear. Today was one of those days. When I got home from work, I was in a very creative mood. I wanted to make something, but I didn’t know what. We had some errands to run, so I was hoping inspiration would strike, but unfortunately, it did not. So instead I have this sort of pent up energy in my fingers and nothing to do with it.

5:333 Fast

This academic term has been moving along very quickly. I am finishing up week 4, which means I am nearly halfway done. It feels like I just started,which I guess I kind of did, but it doesn’t feel like a month has gone by. At the same time, I only have 15 of the 63 credits I need, so it’s still a long way before I’m actually done.