Here We Go Again

Good morning. Today is an important day. Today, Spring semester 2011 starts. Break couldn't last forever and now it's time to get back to work. In a broad sense, this is a GREAT thing. This whole break business was getting a little long. And without structure, my life starts to fall into chaos. Nothing like a semester at a college to give you structure. That being said, I am a little bit worried about this one...

I am enrolled for 19 credits. This is the behavior reminiscent of an over-achiever. The most I've ever taken in the past was 18 credits. It was hell.

Like this, but more academic.

So the course load is heavy. I've got to stay on top of things if I want to succeed and continue my crusade to salvage my suffering GPA (What alliteration!). Read that last sentence again and tell me you don't savor all the S sounds. :D

Anyway, even more frightening is the schedule that all these classes will be present to me. Every day except Friday, I will be having a class at 9am. 9 FREAKING AM!! Ok...So I know what you're thinking. "Big deal! I wake up at 6 am everyday to begrudgingly start the commute to my thankless job." Well here's the thing... I haven't had a reason to wake up before 10am since high school. 

This is what my expression is right now.

Yeah, it was easy back then. I would get up at 6:30 every morning and think nothing of it. But college does something to you... It makes you feel...lazy. And it is incredibly easy to get tired. Furthermore, it conditions you to sleep in! This is all bad! On Monday and Wednesday mornings, I need to not only be up and awake, I need to walk all the way across campus to go to a PHY ED class. PHY ED?! At my age?

Oh well... I guess the bright side of being back in a required gym class is that my movement towards my weight loss goals will be quickened. I've lost a lot of weight since last summer, but I've kind of stopped this last month. I've been eating a lot of junk food again. So this will be a good motivator to keep working at it. And that will at least make my girlfriend happy. Which, by extension, will make me happy. The great chain moves slowly, but with wisdom. Haha.

Cody M. Logeland