Achievements, and plans which will most likely fail

[hawkwing_lb]

Things I have learned today:

1. Getting to the station thirty minutes before one's train is due is boring.

2. It appears that edits of unfinished novels take place in reporters' notebooks, since I went old school for the writing today. About five pages of small handwriting: call it what, a thousand words?

3. I'm not as unfit as I thought I'd be.

4. This still does not mean I'm fit.

5. When the fire alarm goes off in the gym, and you've nearly finished your workout, it is worth it to go back afterwards and stretch, because you regret not doing that now.

6. Fire alarms are annoying.

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19 minutes on the treadmill, for 1.5 miles. Weights, sit-ups, push-ups.

I have a Plan for the next four weeks. Barring actually acquiring employment, which seems like more than I ought to hope for, I'll be going in to college five days a week. Probably, though not definitely, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturday mornings. Under this plan, I'll do a full workout two days in the morning, running, weights, whatnot, break for lunch, and spend the afternoon in the library writing. Two days, running, sit-ups, push-ups only in the morning, library in the afternoon, climbing in the evening. Saturday mornings, running only, college reading in the library, and home for the afternoon.

Two days off exercise, though probably not off writing.

Also under this plan, the goal is to read and finish four background books for college: Colin Wells' The Roman Empire, Avril Cameron's The Later Roman Empire, Breeze and Dobson, Hadrian's Wall, and Martin Goodman's The Roman World: 44BC-AD180. I may be ambitious in aiming for four: the Goodman is a little larger than the others.

Goals for week starting Thursday 24 July:

Read Well's The Roman Empire
Write 35 notebook pages, or the equivalent number of MS words (where one [1] notebook page is assumed to be 200 words, unless it's all dialogue and you're cheating)
Run Thursday morning and Tuesday morning
Climb Thursday evening and Tuesday evening
Work out Friday morning and Monday morning
Run Saturday morning
Examine past exam papers and pick one question for each of the next four weeks to outline an answer for
Outline an answer for a past exam question. Decide structure of argument. Include notes on detail and examples; also include potential bibliography.

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Okay, I think one of my other goals should be to get my head out of my arse and stop doing the self-obsessed thing.

Any day now...

Comments

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

You *study* during your *summer break?*

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Inasmuch as this is possible, I try to.

...is this considered unusual?

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

*cough* Not really..I mean, people do study on their own all the time. It's just usually older students who are so dedicated. ;-)

Fire alarms are a pain. We are having trouble in my building at work and we've all had to troop out several times in the past two weeks. Something about steam lines and sensors being incorrectly set.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Ah, fire alarms.

I often think it's like the boy who cried wolf.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is a Europe thing.

Or maybe it's just that I rarely study even during the school year. I make a distiction between studying and learning; learning I try to do as much as possible. Studying, however, is inimical to learning. I learn for me; I study to get better grades on essays.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

For me, studying is a subset of learning: it is reinforcement of knowledge.

And I need to have much knowledge at my fingertips this year, since it counts for 30% of my degree.