This semester was fantastic. In my classes I got
3rd year Philosophy – 86/ High Distinction
Cultural Analysis – 85/ High Distinction
Palestine Class – 84/ Distinction
It’s really hard to get HDs, and I only missed a clean sweep of HDs by ONE single mark.
Current GPA: 5.909 (close to 6!!)
This goal is almost complete. YES!
Starting the 8th July, I’m taking a 10 (?) week course on beginners conversational Arabic. I’m excited! There isn’t any pressure, or deadlines, it’s just as fast (or more likely; how slow) the class learns collectively.
I didn’t get an offer this semester, because my results from the previous semester weren’t in and therefore I didn’t have enough units to qualify for application. Epic cut. Out of no fault of my own, I missed out. It sucks too; that I worked so hard the last 1.5 years to get into a position to apply, and still got knocked back.
I’m pretty cut; but life is knock backs. It is. Anyone who says it isn’t obviously hasn’t lived.
I have re-opened this goal after almost 2.5 years, because I’m interesting in acting once again. YAY! I’m currently a member of a theatre, which means I can audition for the productions they put on. I’m not going to set myself any immediate goals, or create any pressure, I’m just going to say this: one day I will get into a drama company production. And every day I feel positive about this, is another good day.
My polish is on pause, because there are free Arabic classes running in my neighbourhood center! Yay!
*adds new goal: Learn Arabic
There’s this great family guy episode, where the jaws shark is personified to be a homosexual while eating the baywatch guys. His motto is
‘I’m gonna eat that hairy leg. I’m’ma eat that one too. Oh now, wait a minute, I did have a chubby kid kid on a raft earlier… but it’s okay, I been swimming a lot lately! Mm, yummy, mm.’
Swimming hasn’t had a lot of my priority time lately, it’s been raining for one-two weeks here in Sydney, and work’s given me an extra two days so getting to the pool has been a rarity. I have only been swimming around 1.5-1.8 each time, not due to tiredness but rather nausea. I’m going to trial pushing eating by a few more hours before going, I didn’t have this problem when I started and think it could be why.
My best swim is still 2.2km, and I’m keen to smash it! Have been getting some great compliments on body tone lately, which is also encouraging. I’ve been more comfortable with eating treats because ‘I been swimming alot lately’. :) In case anyone happens to be browsing my goals, I added the family guy clip for lulz.
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XcuL194TDhY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">Edit: it comes up properly in preview, the code is right but 43 things is disabling it. Here’s the URL for anyone interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcuL194TDhY&feature=PlayList&p=4A39DF6415694FA6&index=1
I’m making this entry as a university student, in my 2nd year of B Arts (Psychology). I can say that in the last year, I met this goal every day of ever week because I physically was able to.
I still consider it a goal to meet every week of class with complete attendance, but I think I can mark this goal as complete now and let go of the past. :)
So, falling off the horse a bit now. It’s been raining all week, I swam on Saturday but only did about 1-1.1 km and gave up due to stomach upset. Tuesday I didn’t go at all. Yesterday I got home too late. I better make sure I go for SURE on Sat, or I’ll loose what I’ve been building up to.
d’oh.
I keep stuffing this up on school days, because there is just so much crap to eat and people to eat it with. Identify the obstacle, check. I would usually drink a lot of tea and coffee at work or home, or protein shakes between meals… but they’re too expensive to buy all the time at uni, and water just doesn’t cut it for a distraction. I might try taking pre-made green and chamomile teas and see if it gives me some variety and distraction. Consider alternate solutions, apply, – will get back to you.
Still 140 lbs… goal is to be 136 in two weeks. Would be happy with 138 if the full 4 pounds is too hard. :)
Here we go again, I set the 2.0 goal 3 days ago… and already smashed it to bits! It’s encouraging but also kind of worrying that I’m breaking through my goals so quick, I don’t want to set them too far in case I struggle and loose heart, but I think I need to challenge myself some more. So, I’m re-setting the goal for 2.5 by the end of March, and upping my ‘minimum’ to 1.8-2.0 for each swim. Who knows, maybe in a few months I’ll be ready to take myself to the ocean and learn the techniques for currents sooner than anticipated.
My Mum will be proud.
I love our crappy little garden, outside our Mexican/Italian house. I live with 3 guys, who happily leave the maintenance of it to me. Once a month or so, I really get into it and pull up as many weeds I can, poison the grass breaking through the tiles, prune the bushes and re-tie the growth patterns. Today was my February gardening day, and one of the guys commented how well the Rosemary and Rose bushes have shaped since I picked up on it.
I really appreciated his support, as it is something I work on regularly to keep my mind at peace. I decided to make it a goal on here, that I continue working on it regularly. It’s soothing and ‘mine’, I can turn to it when my head is swimming or I need some physical control. When it’s thriving, I can look on my hardwork and smile. When it’s not looking so great, I can nurture it and hope for better growth. Therapeutic goodness, it’s now a goal! ;)
Tonight was great, so much fun and a really encouraging and uplifting environment. Exactly right for me, I need healing. I need peace. I have found a comfort to be still in being involved once more, and I don’t need to be on the stage at this point to feel like I’m really achieving important things for myself.
Have made a couple attempts since last entry, and improved to 1.6km. My goal has been revised slightly, because (don’t think I mentioned) I was aiming to do 1.6km by the end of March and I actually did that already before the end of February! :D I am now aiming for 2.0 by the end of March, though I will be happy if I can swim minimum 1.5 and be hitting around 1.8.
I’ve had some profound personal insight recently, regarding my expectations and unrealistic demands I’ve created for myself. My goal is about giving up the negativity that drives me to exhaustion. I can’t do everything, and trying is only going to burn me out, rob me of joy, and leave me with a miserable set of circumstances in living life.
It’s reasonable that in my university years, I’m not working 30-40 hour weeks at work whilst studying 30-40 hour weeks at school. This reasonability means that having less money as a result is actually okay. Having a degree will allow me to develop the skills which I’ll need to maintain my position in society when I’m older, as traditionally the job market is always an open book for young people (but quite the opposite for old). This is called the bigger picture.
I need to let go of my hangups about having no money during these years, because even when I earned almost 40k in the last 12 months I wasn’t happy anyway! The extra few hundred a week ensure greater security, sure, but the stress of working that hard ensured stress and lack of me-time as well. I am adjusting this expectation of myself to a more realistic version of 15-20 hours work per week, in addition to 30-40 school hours. I don’t need 80 hour weeks. Not at this age. Not for such small ground. I need physical and emotional wellbeing, so therefore I am aiming to working for insight rather than money.
My Mum recently swam in the Can Too 2km marathon at Shelly Beach, Sydney. She swam it in about 41 minutes, aged 47.
A few months ago I took up swimming as a recreational fitness activity. I’ve been to the beach quite a few times for swimming since early December, though most of my training is done in a 50m outdoor swimming pool. I recently got up to 1.5km in laps, through Mum’s tips to buy a cap, work on my breathing technique, and correct little things in my strokes.
This is my inspiration for this goal, which I intend to first complete in the pool first: Mum finishing her race, and our family (I’m second from the left) supporting her at the finish line.
So I recently joined a theatre I’ve only been to as a viewer in the past. I signed up for the front of house program (bar work), so I could meet some people and just be involved in supporting political theatre in Sydney. I’m on next weekend, and totally stoked.
Will update as more happens.
I am reminded time and time again that there is no proper way of losing weight, that doesn’t involve a combination of good diet and frequent exercise. I had a couple attempts at failed diet last year, but I’m finally getting the message that there must be physical elements to real progress. Since taking up swimming in December, I lost 5cm from my waist, 1.5cm from my arms, 4cm from my lower stomach and a couple other centimetres from around my body. It added up to 15cm off, but there was no actual numerical weight loss on the scales.
I added diet into that, and immediately am seeing the numbers froom the deficit of calories. I’ll have to keep following it for a few months to make sure I keep it off by maintaining good habits, but once again I’ve cracked the AMAZING ZOMG SECRET (not really) that weight loss is: exercise + diet, and one does not discount the other.
Weight today: 140 pounds.
REALLY need to start working on this! Finally found someone who has agreed to give me lessons once I have my Learners Permit (initial obstical), my cousin Michael. We’ll see if he keeps his word!
Mini goal within the big goal: pass learner’s quiz. Costs $50, so I’ll have to save it up while studying the manual, then set the date once I’m prepared.
This is such a hard goal! I just like food, and being lazy, it’s such a comfortable way of life, haha. I was 147 two weeks ago, yesterday I was 143 after a week of intensive dieting. I’ve been lap swimming between 2-3 times per week for about 6 weeks now,it started by going to the beach with the boyfriend a couple times a week. I’m building up to be able to do 1.4 KM by the end of March, at the moment I can do 1 KM comfortably in under 40mins. I started at about 600-650, but once I got into it, found I could build fairly easily and decided to set a conscious goal so that I do more laps, but my times get better. Sort of like any rigourous exercise, do more in less time. :P
I plan to re-format the diet in a couple of weeks, this is an intensive period just to kick the crap out of my diet and adjust to saying ‘NO’ again. What a shame summer’s almost gone, I’ve got a hard winter ahead. *grrr
