Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Progress Report: 15 Before 25

Maintain a yoga schedule:
Yoga schedule isn't static but I've been able to go to yoga 2 days a week for the past 2 months. This is on top of going to the gym in general another 2 days per week. I'm amazed that I'm able to do this despite how mentally tired I am from school.

Try new things:
Though many peoole have been to Knotts Halloween Haunt or some other creepy festive event by my age, I've avoided it altogether. I don't like being scared, my imagination likes to torture me when the house creaks. Yet there I was standing in line for the LA Haunted Hayride this past weekend. We went on the Hayride and then through the Inbetween Maze--which is funny because my night vision is so bad that it negated anything that popped out at me. "Oh hello there, I can't even see what scary thing you're supposed to be!" It had seemed so intimidating before, but now I can say that I'm not scared of Halloween mazes. Nonetheless scary movies are still a no-go.

Run three 5ks:
Last weekend was the BubbleRun at the Pomona Fairplex, bright and early. My friend Ashley and I ran through 6 different colored bubble stations. Each was about the size of a standard driveway filled with a huge mass of bubbles! Giant colored bubbles! Hehehehe.

This coming weekend is the ColorMeRAD 5k at the OC Great Park by our house. Essentially a color run with color bombs and dust. This will be my first color run, hopefully not my last. It looks like I just need to do one more 5k after this to complete my To Do.

Straight A's:
Just received my first paper back this afternoon.....A! It's a good starting point for now but there's still 4 more papers to go before this semster is done.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Meandering

I hate this frustrating feeling. It's so stupid to stress out so much. Stress is not something found in my natural habitat. It seems like I've managed to successfully avoid it for 90% of my life.

It only strikes me in the form of self-doubt. In this case, it's been triggered by one simple assignment. Write a scholarly review essay that considers a number of articles &/or book, write about the "state of the field." But it's not simple when you've been wired to think and write in traditional research essay form. As I look for sources I find myself wandering through it all and changing my topic ever so slightly. Then suddenly it's a completely new topic. Hello? Brain? Stop undermining me when I'm trying to be productive!

Why is picking a field and narrowing it so difficult? T_T *bangs head against wall*

Part of me is pissed off that this isn't clicking in my head, and the other half asks why I'm even in grad school. Thanks self-doubt, you're a bitch.