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That just happened.  Pics and reflection will be up tonight when the festivities subside.
~Jared~

(Whoo Diploma!!!!) 

So today I decided it would be awesome to go geocaching again (if you don’t know what it is go to www.geocaching.com for more details).  I also decided it would be a good idea to be in Vibrams.  Well, I forgot one thing:
I have not been on my feet in Vribrams for that long in a long time.  

Here’s some backstory:  It’s been shitty here in Troy for a while so I’ve been forced to wear sneakers.  Naturally, this has left my feet a little soft and pampered.  I got around to walking for a couple hours today (through rocky areas, up hills, down hills, on asphalt, on grass) and I realized that I shouldn’t do that off the bat.  Well, it was too late when I remembered it, as I was a couple miles downhill from my house.  By the time I get done with my trek, my head is just starting to hurt.  It’s alright though, I’ll be better by tomorrow, and within a week or so, I will be acclimated to my Vibrams again (I just need to keep up with the walking every day). 

How much did I end up going?  About 7 miles in my Vibrams (and then about another 3 in flippy floppies).  I like this 5-10 mile thing.  I got a decent workout and I don’t think I’m going to be hurting too much in the morning.  Maybe I will keep it up when I get home after this week.  Maybe it will break my plateau (if I am still on it, I’m not too sure, I have not had a scale in a few weeks).

Unrelated note:  I just got another person hooked on the Doctor.  Go me!  I believe that’s 4 people now.

~Jared~

I have absolutely nothing to do right now other than search for a job, which I have been doing.  My problem lies in the fact that I cannot wake myself up before 1PM for some awful reason.  The whole last week has been like this:

• I want to fix my sleeping
• I try to sleep by 1AM
• Sleep by 3AM-6AM
• Wake by 1PM

Every damn time.  I even missed my alarm this morning.  Well no, I didn’t miss it, I turned it off and didn’t wake up while doing it.  Any tips on how to fix myself?

 Good news though, it looks like I have been thinning out recently.  I have no idea if I have or not, but it looks like it, so I’m happy.  

Maybe there will be a proper update later when I actually get a run in.

~Jared~

EDIT

See…I’ve done that before, and it wasn’t working.  Hell, I even have a Clocky (I do not turn the wheels on, mind you, but the beeping i usually loud enough.  I may have to swap out alarm clocks for a while until I stop getting used to it.

The rapture may not have happened, but I still got to spend the night with a friend I haven’t seen in a while, in NYC.  Although I may hate the mass amounts of people and the traffic, I have to say I love the night there.  

Also, White Castle is the best during the apocalypse.  

~Jared~

Last grade came in - only a B.  Over it, I still got a 3.66 this semester, brings me overall up to a 2.58.  That’s good enough for me.

~Jared~

There will be no running today.  I woke up and most of my body was sore.  That’s a combination of my running yesterday and bowling the night before (I have not bowled that hardcore in a few years).  

Yeah, that’s it for today.

~Jared~

Just got back from my first jog in about 2 weeks.  Why did it take me so long to get back on track?  School, Fiancee, Shitty Weather, Busy with Friends (The usual).  Anyway, let me break it down for you.

• 1 mile jog mostly on straight/slight incline road (pushed myself really hard, made just around 8 minutes)
• .3 mile brisk walk up a slight incline (while breathing really heavily, I think I might have been around 180 bpm at this point)
• .3 mile jog up a steep incline (got my heart rate back up)
• .3 mile brisk walk down a steep incline
• .3 mile jog back to my house on mostly flat road

2.2 miles done up and down hills, mostly jogging (1.6 miles) and making it back just at 20 minutes.  I say that’s a job well done.  If I could have jogged all of it, I would be making fantastic time for a 3K.  

Hopefully the weather holds out tomorrow so I can try it again.

~Jared~

Well, my 4th grade came in over the night and I’m sad to say it wasn’t an A,only a B+.  It dropped my GPA for the semester to a 3.83 and brought my overall up to a 2.57.  I think I can still manage an A in my last class (or another B+ at least) so I should be able to keep my grade around a 3.8 and 2.65 respectively.  Which is still higher than I thought I would get around here.  I’m still happy and I’m still proud of myself (just not nearly as much as I would have been if I had gotten a 4.0 this semester).

~Jared~

I’ve been kind of in and out since my last post.  To be honest, I don’t even really have a perception of time anymore.  After Margaret was here it was the most beautiful out and I was able to finish school and get all my projects in on time.  So far I have only gotten 3 grades in, all A’s bringing my overallGPA to a 2.54 [It’s only so low because of major switching early on in my school career]).

There’s a lot here, hope you read after the jump,
~Jared~

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“So It Goes” idea sounds like it would be really cool. My only dislike about words is sometimes people get them so swirly that you can’t even read what it says. I don’t know if you want swirly letters, but that would be my only concern.

My idea is to have it look calm by using a sans-serif with a soft touch.  When I think about it, I think about something soft but strong and final.  Life goes on, so it goes.

I want to have it encased in something or with something that represents it well too.  I’m still not really certain.  I did see one image with rock-paper-scissors in a triangle and “So” “It” “Goes” on the inside.  That’s a very nicely done version (but I like having my own ideas).

That.  That is awesome.

I was Stumbling earlier today and I came across some inked ladies and gents.  I immediately got the twinge to get another tattoo.

I can’t decide if I want to get a giraffe (my favorite animal), or “So It Goes” (from Slaughterhouse Five).  If I get a giraffe, I’m thinking up my ribs or on the right side of my back (below my sun).  If I go for “So It Goes,” I’m thinking my left shoulder.  The phrase would be encased in something (I’m not quite certain yet). 

Also, I only do B&W ink.

~Jared~

What should I do?

Well, Margaret is here this weekend and I have a bit of work to do to finish the semester (that is why I have not been posting).  Since I am almost done, I need to start sending things home with Margaret.  Yes, I will be at RPI until June, but I need to send at least a quarter of my stuff back so I can go back home with a very little amount of items.  

This leads me to my decision.  I will be sending the scale home.  For at least the next month, no more disappointments in the morning.  Starting Tuesday morning (May 10th), I will not take any more record of my weight for an entire month.  I will update my page to show where I start, but from them until June 2nd or later, there will be no weight updates, just normal work-out updates.  It’s all I will be doing from the 10th until after graduation: working out (and reading…..and watching The Doctor of course).  

I hope this leads me to lose weight a little quicker and leads me to be happier about weight I may or may not have lost.  Wish me luck!

~Jared~

Not only has my sleep schedule shifted ahead a couple of hours, but I’ve been getting just over 8 hours a night.  That needs to change, it’s not helping anything.  I think I can blame last week where I did all my work all at once.  I can also blame the fact that I have not had the time or will to get out and work out.  I shouldn’t have been watching my weight daily, but I’ve noticed it go right back to where it was at the beginning of last month.  Have I been eating well?  Yeah.  I have not been eating more than 2000 calories a day, and my fat intake is low.  It has to be water retention from being stressed.  That’s the only thing I can guess.  Maybe when I get a chance to get outside (after Tuesday), I’ll be much better.

I can only hope.

~Jared~

PS : I’d love to try a new 30 Day challenge, but I’m not sure what I want to try.  Any suggestions (workout/writing/art)?

Other than this being my 200th post and that I will be able to see Margaret in the next few days, I have been feeling like shit lately.  (List Powers, GO!)

• It’s been really dark and gloomy out for about a week
• I have not gotten too much of a chance to run (but I’ve not gained back too much weight)
• I have not gotten the work from my classmates.  The thing I’m editing is due on Monday, and I only have two sections (Now I have to do work on it over the weekend, instead of being with my fiancee)
• I tripped up the stairs the other day and broke my water bottle.  Now it’s lock doesn’t work and the casing is fractured
• I have yet to watch last week’s Doctor Who (Episode 2 of the Season)
• I’m beginning to have some really weird/upsetting dreams
• My sleep schedule is fucked up the ass
• I need to figure out what I’m going to have Margaret take home for me after this weekend.  I need to make it easy on myself when I leave on June 1st

I guess I can think of some good things too…

• Even though I’m making no progress on my game project, it’s not due until May 13th
• Even though I don’t have the things for my editing project, editing is REALLY easy for something like this.
• I’m fairly certain that 4 of my 5 classes this semester are going to be A’s (I’m hoping for a 4.0 this semester, it would be the bees knees).
• Although I’m not losing weight or getting the chance to run, clothes are still fitting me well and I think I’m starting to see abs.  
• I’m almost out of this damn school
• I’m almost out of this damn school
• Fuck you ‘Tute.

Im still on the job search.  Mostly, I’ve been busy with my two projects and not doing them because I have so much time to do them.  I figure I’ll at least do one of them today, but I would ever-so love to do some reading today.  Not too sure if I’d be able to concentrate, however.  Even though I’m a little depressed and out of it (weather), I think I’l be better on Friday morning when Margaret comes.  I usually never need to use my light (for my SAD) when I’m around her, so hopefully I can wait long enough.  

Love you Margaret, hurry up and get over here.

~Jared~

EDIT : Oh, I also forgot.  After some finals, a lot of the Brothers will be leaving for the summer.  I will be here with a very small amount of my Brothers who will be either staying the summer, or graduating with me.  After I leave, I’m not going to be seeing them everyday anymore.  I will be with my Margaret everyday from June 1st until I decide to come out and visit my fraternity house.  It’s going to help, but being without a bunch of guys is gonna be a little sad.  There won’t always be something going on, I’ll have to make my own fun, I can’t exactly talk to Margaret about some of the things guys talk about (although I get close).  

Just something else I was depressing over today.  Good side?  I get Margaret every day.  That’s a good thing.