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Long, long day. I am posting this while eating dinner, and as soon as I'm done and packed for tomorrow, I'm for bed
Did some treadmill running for ~15 minutes, pushing myself about as hard as I could. The results weren't great, but hey, if I do that every day, or at least every weekday, I have to improve, right?
And climbing. Ouch. Fell off three walls, succeeded at none - but I got higher on the first one than I've ever gone before, and had something of a revelation. I understand the technique. Can't reliably replicate it, but I understand the technique: it makes a certain amount of intuitive sense. Now all I need is practice, and better upper body strength. And to be able to go climbing at a hour where I have more than forty minutes before I have to run for the train.
Completely failed at essay today. No concentration. I suspect it's the change of weather: it's been wet and sunny, warm and cool by turns, and my body's feeling all confused. (It should be summer already. Or at least a drier version of spring.) Tomorrow I'll have no excuse (I really had no excuse today, except - oh look! Shiny!): between now and Friday it's Qum'ran or death! time.
The weekend, of course, is archaeology assignment or death! And next week, well. We'll deal with that when it gets here, I think. But more essay or death! type activities, I suspect.
The problem with essays is, alas, the more pressed for time I am, the less I care about the end product. Actually, that's not precisely true: I had a hard time caring terribly about the ancient Greek history essay assignment (Classical or Archaic periods) because, well. The questions weren't exactly on topics that excited me. Not juicy: the scope was too broad, and the reading list provided, too short on detail that would have been useful to narrow its focus. And I've had, oh, three months or so to work on that.
This Qum'ran essay, on the other hand: I am excited about it, but I'm running into problems regarding the breadth of my knowledge of Second Temple Judaism. To whit, I have no breadth of knowledge, and, alas, scant time to acquire it. (I need to get my hands on at least two more books tomorrow, and see what good flicking through odd-numbered chapters will do me.)
Should be fun. If I stay awake.
Damn, my back aches now. I suspect I will be majorly stiff in the morning. No help for it, though: exercise is pain, of one kind or another.
But good pain.
Did some treadmill running for ~15 minutes, pushing myself about as hard as I could. The results weren't great, but hey, if I do that every day, or at least every weekday, I have to improve, right?
And climbing. Ouch. Fell off three walls, succeeded at none - but I got higher on the first one than I've ever gone before, and had something of a revelation. I understand the technique. Can't reliably replicate it, but I understand the technique: it makes a certain amount of intuitive sense. Now all I need is practice, and better upper body strength. And to be able to go climbing at a hour where I have more than forty minutes before I have to run for the train.
Completely failed at essay today. No concentration. I suspect it's the change of weather: it's been wet and sunny, warm and cool by turns, and my body's feeling all confused. (It should be summer already. Or at least a drier version of spring.) Tomorrow I'll have no excuse (I really had no excuse today, except - oh look! Shiny!): between now and Friday it's Qum'ran or death! time.
The weekend, of course, is archaeology assignment or death! And next week, well. We'll deal with that when it gets here, I think. But more essay or death! type activities, I suspect.
The problem with essays is, alas, the more pressed for time I am, the less I care about the end product. Actually, that's not precisely true: I had a hard time caring terribly about the ancient Greek history essay assignment (Classical or Archaic periods) because, well. The questions weren't exactly on topics that excited me. Not juicy: the scope was too broad, and the reading list provided, too short on detail that would have been useful to narrow its focus. And I've had, oh, three months or so to work on that.
This Qum'ran essay, on the other hand: I am excited about it, but I'm running into problems regarding the breadth of my knowledge of Second Temple Judaism. To whit, I have no breadth of knowledge, and, alas, scant time to acquire it. (I need to get my hands on at least two more books tomorrow, and see what good flicking through odd-numbered chapters will do me.)
Should be fun. If I stay awake.
Damn, my back aches now. I suspect I will be majorly stiff in the morning. No help for it, though: exercise is pain, of one kind or another.
But good pain.
