As of Now, Disregard the Last Post.
Well, although the previous post was really how I felt, and I do feel like that fairly often, I've hit my usual up after the down. And this was a rather good up indeed. Tuesday night, I went bowling with a bunch of my friends, and although I'm not much of an avid bowler, I had a darn good time losing... terribly. I don't think I broke 80 either time we played. I won't go into anymore details because one, it's all boring, and two, um... no, mainly it'd just be boring... but I like to think there's more to life than being good at bowling, eh?
Afterwards, we walked Megan back to her room, after I pulled some sweet secret-agent moves in the union, such as my patented somersault-over-the-back-of-the-chair (I learned from the best: Acrobats Go!) or the sidestep-behind-the-support-pole-thingy. That's right. Needless to say, the enemy didn't hit me with a single shot.
Before Tuesday night, however, I had a trombone lesson Tuesday afternoon. I wasn't really feeling all that confident, because I haven't been practicing as much as I should be lately. It's pretty hard to motivate yourself to go practice when you feel like the world's caving in on you. Anyway, I must have shown that I was sort of depressed, because Zadrozny asked me what was up before we did anything else, and I ended up just spilling my guts to him. He made me feel a lot better, as we talked about all sorts of things for a whole half hour of lesson time. It only got better after that, I played him part of my solo that I'm currently preparing for my jury at the end of the semester, and he was really pleased with it. Heck, I was really pleased with it.
ANYWAY, my most proud moment was Thursday. I received a most appriciated invitation to go to the rec center from Laya's roommate, Stephanie. I was pretty hesitant, being the xenophobe I am, but I ended up feeling good enough about it to go. And boy, am I glad I did. She showed me how some of the stuff works, and I started on the eliptical machine. It was pretty fun, it took me a while to figure out how all of the controls worked, the different settings, the bars that you hold on to to measure your heart rate, and the little thingy that you can plug your headphones into to listen to one of the various TVs placed around the room. I ended up switching the eliptical machine onto a "cross country" setting, which sort of varied up and down from a very small amount of resistance to a lot of resistance over and over again. I was pretty surprised, but I kept through the whole thing. I did a really good job of pushing myself, especially considering how long it's been since I've done any rigerous exercise, and after 400 calories and 45 minutes, I switched over to one of the high-bikes, just so I could watch Seinfeld. (I've gotten into the habit of watching Seinfeld on TBS every day from 6-7 when I get the chance; I'm thinking that doing it over at the rec while exercising might be a better idea than sitting in my room doing nothing) I did a fitness test on that one, and got: a 38. Unfortionetly, I had absolutely no way of knowing WHAT a 38 meant, so it didn't really help me, but I made it past about 80 percent of the resistance bar, so I suppose it can't be too bad. My point is: Exercising really isn't that bad. Especially for the health and social benefeits you get in the end. I definetly think I can keep making trips over to the rec whenever I get the chance, which should be often enough. Next time, I want to do some treadmilling, so I can get more in the habit of a running workout.
Once the summer hits, I'm hoping I can keep that up. I know running isn't good for your joints and stuff (I know a lot of people with knee, hip, etc ailments) but I've gotta do something. I'll probably mix in some biking (if I still have a bike somewhere), DDR-ing, swimming... I'm really serious about it, I'm pretty tired of being out of shape, having this gut, etc. I also noticed I haven't been eating nearly as much since I came to college, and I've been drinking a lot more water. I'm feeling pretty good about it all. But, y'know, if anyone's willing to give me support and remind me of what I said I really want... I would appriciate it. I'm almost certain it's going to be more difficult than I'm feeling right now, I've still got a high from the fact that I actually went to the rec today, but I can at least make a dent in my out-of-shappedness.
Well... that's about all I've got.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, y'all. Don't forget to don the green!
-Jimmy
Afterwards, we walked Megan back to her room, after I pulled some sweet secret-agent moves in the union, such as my patented somersault-over-the-back-of-the-chair (I learned from the best: Acrobats Go!) or the sidestep-behind-the-support-pole-thingy. That's right. Needless to say, the enemy didn't hit me with a single shot.
Before Tuesday night, however, I had a trombone lesson Tuesday afternoon. I wasn't really feeling all that confident, because I haven't been practicing as much as I should be lately. It's pretty hard to motivate yourself to go practice when you feel like the world's caving in on you. Anyway, I must have shown that I was sort of depressed, because Zadrozny asked me what was up before we did anything else, and I ended up just spilling my guts to him. He made me feel a lot better, as we talked about all sorts of things for a whole half hour of lesson time. It only got better after that, I played him part of my solo that I'm currently preparing for my jury at the end of the semester, and he was really pleased with it. Heck, I was really pleased with it.
ANYWAY, my most proud moment was Thursday. I received a most appriciated invitation to go to the rec center from Laya's roommate, Stephanie. I was pretty hesitant, being the xenophobe I am, but I ended up feeling good enough about it to go. And boy, am I glad I did. She showed me how some of the stuff works, and I started on the eliptical machine. It was pretty fun, it took me a while to figure out how all of the controls worked, the different settings, the bars that you hold on to to measure your heart rate, and the little thingy that you can plug your headphones into to listen to one of the various TVs placed around the room. I ended up switching the eliptical machine onto a "cross country" setting, which sort of varied up and down from a very small amount of resistance to a lot of resistance over and over again. I was pretty surprised, but I kept through the whole thing. I did a really good job of pushing myself, especially considering how long it's been since I've done any rigerous exercise, and after 400 calories and 45 minutes, I switched over to one of the high-bikes, just so I could watch Seinfeld. (I've gotten into the habit of watching Seinfeld on TBS every day from 6-7 when I get the chance; I'm thinking that doing it over at the rec while exercising might be a better idea than sitting in my room doing nothing) I did a fitness test on that one, and got: a 38. Unfortionetly, I had absolutely no way of knowing WHAT a 38 meant, so it didn't really help me, but I made it past about 80 percent of the resistance bar, so I suppose it can't be too bad. My point is: Exercising really isn't that bad. Especially for the health and social benefeits you get in the end. I definetly think I can keep making trips over to the rec whenever I get the chance, which should be often enough. Next time, I want to do some treadmilling, so I can get more in the habit of a running workout.
Once the summer hits, I'm hoping I can keep that up. I know running isn't good for your joints and stuff (I know a lot of people with knee, hip, etc ailments) but I've gotta do something. I'll probably mix in some biking (if I still have a bike somewhere), DDR-ing, swimming... I'm really serious about it, I'm pretty tired of being out of shape, having this gut, etc. I also noticed I haven't been eating nearly as much since I came to college, and I've been drinking a lot more water. I'm feeling pretty good about it all. But, y'know, if anyone's willing to give me support and remind me of what I said I really want... I would appriciate it. I'm almost certain it's going to be more difficult than I'm feeling right now, I've still got a high from the fact that I actually went to the rec today, but I can at least make a dent in my out-of-shappedness.
Well... that's about all I've got.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, y'all. Don't forget to don the green!
-Jimmy
posted by Jimmy at 12:18 AM
6 Comments:
LoL! The over-the-chair-somersault was my favorite! :)
I'm glad you're feeling better.
Way to go, James! Keep it up!
hey, i bought a 300 dollar mountain bike last year for down at OU, so I would be delighted to be your biking companinon this spring/summer! Not to mention accompany you to the pool for some hard laps!
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