I started off the week with a yoga class on Sunday morning. Yesterday, I got a new workout plan for weight training, and it's totally killer. Like just sitting here, I can feel it. Heck, lying in bed this morning I could feel it. It's mostly the biceps exercises that are doing it I think. For some of them I used 10 lb. weights, which is more than I'm used to. But, as I have decided, if I'm going to go to the gym, I might as well work hard while I'm there.

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I need to get some more work done on my homework tonight. I am taking Friday as a day off, but I don't want to leave it all till then. Besides, my "take every Friday off" thing that I did last fall was great, but I don't want to use up too many of my vacation days this early in the year by starting that now. So far I answered one homework question (there are 8) and did the reading. The reading was the first chapter of the textbook, and it was extremely dry. I didn't really expect anything different, and the teacher admitted that most library science books were pretty boring.

Somehow, cataloging doesn't strike me a boring though. It may be a boring thing to read about, but I think the topic is interesting if you're dealing with real stuff, like books or art or what have you. The teacher of our class for instance, is an archivist at another school up near mine. She's an adjunct professor at my school, which I've heard is something like doing slave labor.

Anyway, in class she gave us the following exercise: she passed around a box told us to take two things out of it. I took a postcard of an Edward Hopper painting called "Lighthouse Hill" and a giant super duper strong rubber band. Then we had to get in a group with 4 -5 other people and decide on a cataloging system for out items. The other items in my group were - some sort of train ticket with German print on it, a small sheet of star stickers, a golf tee, a three prong plug adaptor, a tape dispenser, a sheet of 1 cent stamps and... I can't remember the rest, but you can tell it's a very weird unrelated bunch of objects. The cataloging system we came up with was "two desk drawers with one for office supplies and one for household supplies." The other groups had similarly disparate groups of objects and came up with other good ideas for cataloging their stuff. See, cataloging is fun.

Watching: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season Four.

Six Feet Under, Season Five. Yes, I'm still watching this depressing show. I just want to find out what happens.

American Graffiti (1979) starring Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith and Candy Clark. Not as good as the first one, but how could it be? Still, not as bad as you may have been told. There are even darker undertones than there were in the first one, thanks to the Viet Nam war and Terry's most likely not making it out alive and knowing that John Milner is most likely meeting his death that night.

Labels: fitness, library science, school, yoga

posted by Miss Rachel 2/06/2007 06:26:00 AM

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