This month I am taking a semester of Koine Greek… also known as New Testament Greek. This is a daily class that lasts three hours, but also highly recommends that students spend an extra two to three hours in a language lab that occurs an hour after the class. So, it is a pretty intense class.
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This came up again tonight at UPS, so I thought I’d go ahead and type up the gist of my thoughts here, because I’ve felt this way for so long.
I wear gloves and will soon be wearing earplugs when I work at UPS. Not everyone does this, in fact, most people do not wear any precautionary paraphernalia. So, people wonder why I am bothering to do it.
Here are my thoughts behind doing so…
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In my room I have three posters of lighthouses. Each of these posters are similar to the Successories posters, in fact, they might actually be the real thing.
I picked lighthouses, because I wanted a theme and of the posters available at the time of purchase they were my favorite theme. I like the idea of lighthouses because of their purpose. They warn you of the coastline, light up the sea, and serve as landmarks to guide your path. They also make fun phallic symbols for when you’re in the mood for sexual jokes.
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In the last few years I have been noticing another pattern of behavior in myself. I get complacent. In fact, complacency is an extremely strong underlying motive for many of the things I do. I want to get to a place where I can be finished and rest. Anything that only requires one set of actions is extremely attractive to me.
The problem with all of this is strikingly clear to many people. Complacency is really, really bad and dangerous.
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hand holding - you like to be in constant physical
contact with your special someone but you don’t
want to take things too quickly.
What Sign of Affection Are You?
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I’ve realized over the course of the last few years that I like to have time to myself. I probably never really got much of a chance to know this until I had a long period of time that was not to myself. Lately, I’ve had that chance both in college and in having a girl friend during college.
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Lately I’ve been blogging less than I’d like, and I think that some of it has to do with the feeling that I’ve already blogged. Almost a month ago I started a second blog for myself to keep track of what I do in my little workouts.
So far it has been working really well for me. I’ve been working out more since I’ve created this new log than I ever have in college. I am even thinking of moving on and doing actual workouts at a gym or something.
There is a small link to the log over to the right under the search tool.
Check it out!
UPDATE 12/5/2003:
It’s been seven weeks since I started this fitness log and it is still working rather well for me. I was thinking about it, and I have a few thoughts as to why it might work well.
1. I get online every day. Now, when I get on in the morning after class I think about e-mail, stocks, blogs, and then my fitness log… so I go and do something so I can add to my log.
2. Even though no one has commented on my log, and even though it is so incredibly boring to read that probably no one reads it regularly… I know that it is there. I know that Joy, a friend, or some stranger from cyberspace could pop in, take a look and realize that I’ve stopped. So, I have that as a small incentive for continuing on with this.
3. I like blogs, I like being able to track growth and decline (perhaps that is part of my obsession with financial markets,) and I like to type and write. So, this log really does it for me. Working out lets me add more to my blog, allows me to see growth and decline, and I type it all in there so, I’m happy.
4. Finally, I like keeping records. I like knowing that doing X number of this or that exercise means something in a small way, because it will be recorded in my log. So, that kinda spurs me on to not only do a little something something so I can create an entry, but when I have energy it motivates me to add something new… like a record setting day of some sort.
So, if you’re anything like me in these respects, and you’re interested in becoming more physically fit, perhaps you should try this out too.
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I was looking into PDAs again today. I already have two, but one of them is broken, and I am letting Joy use the other.
When I was looking at these PDAs at Palm.com, Sony.com and Ebay I was thinking about what I would like in a PDA, and I realized that these newer PDAs have either extra funcitonality that I will not use OR they lack some things I want. So, I thought about what I do want for “personal productivity.”
Basically, I’d like a PDA, in color with optional backlighting, that had a fairly sturdy metal casing. It would also act as my phone. It would have a long (18 hour) battery life. It would get great reception wherever one could possibly get reception. It would also come with a case that could hold the following with easy access — at least 5mm-thick worth of cash; ID cards/business cards; and credit cards.
I guess it would be easier to just get a cell with good reception, a $100 color PDA with Palm OS 4+, and something to hold my cash and cards and then put all that into a purse, but… I’m a guy. Purses aren’t exactly acceptable for guys right now. Besides, Then I’d still be hunting… only for the perfect purse.
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One of my favorite things about the whole concept of diaries, journals, logs, etc. is the fact that eventually someone (usually the author) reads everything that has been written from some time that is many months or years after the time of the writing. This appeals to me because I always liked looking at the scrapbooks that my mom had made when I was growing up and seeing how different I was at different stages of my childhood. Likewise, I think it will be fun to look back after reading my journal and see how much I’ve grown (or at least changed.)
So, I decided to make a whole category called “me” and maybe even do a series of entries about my likes, dislikes, interests, traits, etc. For example — the first (second after this one) entry that I plan to do will be about foods that I like and dislike. I think this will be cool because my food tastes have already changed so much in the past few years. It might be fun to look back in a decade or more and see how I’ve changed. Also, it might be fun for others to comment and let me know how they are similar or different.