Spring Break

I'm on it, not that it means a whole lot to me at this point!  I'd have rather just have continued with school.  But whatevs; I always enjoyed it back in the day, although I was never one to head for warmer climes.  I guess it just seemed like such a trendy thing to do (go to Florida! Party with a bunch of strangers! WTF?) that I never considered it.

Whatever.  I find myself at home and with more energy to burn than usual.  The hip is improving steadily, although not as quickly as I would like - which is to say, I would have liked it to have healed instantly.  I've been walking a LOT but have been gunshy about running, other than taking a few test steps here and there.      I've also been gunshy about karate. Basically, I've been avoiding anything that involves what I'd call possible unpredictable steps, push-offs, or lateral movement.  What I HAVE been able to do is walk, as I said, and lift.  Started NROL/Abs and so far like the workouts, although after that last rotation, the workouts feel on the easier side.  Which is not to say they're easy - they make an impact - but they ARE shorter, so I come out of the gym feeling less worn down, overall.  Which, frankly, I think is a good thing right now, and pretty much what I WANTED in a program for right now, as I was theoretically going to be starting to up my mileage around now.

Best laid plans, eh?  I've been adding some step mill intervals to the end of my gym workouts; just 15 minutes a pop, but I think it's work that will come in handy assuming I do actually get to do Mt. Penn next month.  As it happens, I can withdraw from that up until April 1 (and get an actual refund!) so I have a little bit of time left to decide whether or not I can actually do it.

School has been going pretty well.  Had a bunch of tests last week, including a lab practical, Abnormal Psych exam, and an A&P exam.  The Abnormal Psych exam was a hot mess.  She specifically told us not to study certain sections of the book (including what looked like a very interesting unit on dissociative disorders), and yet there were questions on the material on the test!  As it happened she took them all off AFTER the test, so if you got them wrong, it didn't count against you, but I did get every one of them wrong (what are the odds of that?) and I have never seen a test paper of mine come back so covered in red ink.  Though meaningless in the grand scheme of things, it was disconcerting, and I subsequently overstudied for my A&P exam to the point where I was mentally burnt out for a couple of days afterward.  Haven't gotten that one back yet, but I'm not worried about my A average, to put it mildly.

I have the GRE's next Monday.  I was originally thinking I'd take them this past Monday (yesterday) and in retrospect, I'm really, really glad I didn't, because of the time change.  I fucking HATE DST, as I've said a million zillion times (morning people like morning light, to put it in simplest terms), and I'm having a crappy time adjusting.  My appetite is all screwed up, and this morning I had a very rare headache (I almost never get headaches).  Fortunately that seems to have gone away and I think it's about time I got out and enjoyed what is shaping up to be a very pretty day outdoors.