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i lost 12 pounds in 3 weeks...i'm thrilled
Today I cleaned the house and changed the curtains...my back is killing me with pain right now, but I feel pretty good about myself!
Being haughty may sometimes be significant and permits you to work to your zenith of ability.I am proud of myself today that I had finally,with hard toil,finished my homework.Now I shall continue to read my pristine book.
I got and A- on a chem exam I thought I failed :eek:
Alright!!! That's great. :) :) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by samercury
Hey, congratulations!Quote:
Originally Posted by ntropyincarnate
:p Love it.Quote:
Being haughty may sometimes be significant and permits you to work to your zenith of ability.I am proud of myself today that I had finally,with hard toil,finished my homework.Now I shall continue to read my pristine book.
Congratulations, samercury!Quote:
I got and A- on a chem exam I thought I failed
What I am proud of today is that...I...am...demure and... eccentric.
Ive finally -finally mind you- done somthing with my profile!!
:banana:
( with the Niamh faerie's help of course!) :D
- I got an A on my oral area studies exam. that's one of my English exams. Area Studies (Landeskunde) is bits of history, geography, culture, current events etc. My special topics were The School System of the UK / US and Agriculture in the UK / US. After that there were a couple of minutes left for general questions. The teacher asked me about the political system in the UK, the role of the monarch today, (illegal) immigration in the US.
I got As both on the content and on my English language skills :) :) :)
- I've taken up jogging and went 3 times last week, 1x 4 km and 2 x 6 km. Last night we went again (my "hubby" rides his bike and I jog) and I did 6 km. The downside is I don't have time to do my swimming regularly what with exam preparation, so jogging doesn't tip the balance on the weight loss front.
Yay Nightie! :lol:
Awesome jobs, Sleepy, congratulations! :thumbs_up
Great job, Nightshade! I love your background, font and colours. :thumbs_up
Congratulations, Sleepy! :thumbs_up I'm very happy you passed your exam, and with top marks, too! What's up next?
i just bought a wii-fit!!!!!! - yipeeeeeeeee
congrats Sleepy! :banana:
Congrats sleepy!! And have fun fifth!
This may sound silly but what's a wii-fit? [See Fith, I use the word silly in reference to me. ;)]Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
thanks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by barbara0207
Literature (oral; I'm doing 19th c. novel and Shakespeare), didactics; and then it's the same all over in Geography: physical geo, regional geo, didactics.
19th c novels? early or late 19th centurey Sleepy? or are you doing the whole thing?
Shakespeare? does that mean you will be hanging out in the shakespeare subforums and joiing in with the shakepseare readings in the book club? - as a sort of study aid of course :p
I see you tempered it with the word 'may' ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
The wii-fit is a game that goes with the Nintendo Wii console and consists of a balance board and, I think, 49 'mini-games' designed to improve your fitness, mainly core stability. So it's got aerobic games, yoga, skiing, those sorts of things, and because it's linked to a games console it is also fun! Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Fit
Awesome! I want one, too! :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
Have fun, eh? :p
I just semi dismantled a chest of drawers emptied a shed ( contets of which is unknown) moved the chest fof drawers into the shed reassmebled it and put away aload of junk in pitch darknes and ugly rain.. and the only causlty was my thumb I seem to hae been stabed by a rusty nail from somthing in the shed...but it didnt draw blood so not too bad...
I need to talk to the landlady about getting somekind of light in the garden...:rolleyes:
Well, one is never sure oneself is being silly. Otherwise one would be silly. I'm at least open to the possiblitiy of being silly. :lol: Oh and I am definitely very silly. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
Hey that's great. Between this and your post about giving up your car (I think I'm remembering that, though I have no idea where you posted it) you seem to be very serious about getiting fit. Good for you. It's been almost two years now that I really got serious in my exercise. I've been going to a gym (no high tech approach, but you know how old fashion I am ;)) two or three times a week plus a good walk at least once a week and I'm in as good of fitness as when I was in my twenties. It feels great. Best of luck. :)Quote:
The wii-fit is a game that goes with the Nintendo Wii console and consists of a balance board and, I think, 49 'mini-games' designed to improve your fitness, mainly core stability. So it's got aerobic games, yoga, skiing, those sorts of things, and because it's linked to a games console it is also fun! Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Fit
Thanks Virgil :) I used it for the first time yesterday and today I am aching!! Which is good. The yoga exercises are really good, and a good support to the cycling which is going really well (despite the weather). As for getting serious about getting fit, yes that's probably the case. I recently read Haruki Murakami's semi-biography What I talk about when I talk about running and it reminded me of a few things. I guess it's easy to fall into the trappings of convenience, but I've always been quite an active person - we didn't have a car until I was 17 so I walked pretty much everywhere and I never used to be put off by distance. Obviously that's changed! But not anymore. I've been cycling for 5 weeks now and I'm already feeling the benefits in terms of improved mood, I'm less agitated than I used to be particularly when I get to work, and physically I'm more resilient - I've had a cold which was not a bad cold, and there are other benefits which I could only mention in the women's only thread ;) So, good news all round really :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
nope, I had my exam today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
guess who's got an A? :banana:
Well done Sleepy :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
:thumbs_up If finances go as planned for November, I'll be glad to boast about something very peculiar to me, and you'll hear of me; :thumbs_up if things go really good, I'll boast of two things! :thumbs_up :thumbs_up
( :( If things DON'T work out however, is there anywhere I can say how miserable I'll be? ... :bawling: )
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I just passed the Biology CLEP test!! I'm so psyched.
congrats Weisinheimer.
er, what is CLEP?
CLEP stands for college level examination program. Basically, instead of actually taking a class, you can pass a test to demonstrate that you know the material, and get college credit for it as if you had taken the course.
Good for you Weisy. Looks like Larry brought you some luck. ;) Oh you didn't need luck.
Haha, he was in my purse as I was taking it. That must've been how I passed, cuz it seemed like I was guessing for most of the questions.
I see. sounds cool :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
guess who's got an A in Teaching Geography (30 mins oral exam)?
bah, I'm really knackered now but I've got Physical Geography (40 mins) on Tuesday next week, so I really need to cram. :(
congrats, Sleepy. Good luck with the upcoming exam. I'm sure you'll do great.
I just got 195 out of 200 on my english formal paper.!! the average was 160!!! Im so happy~~!!!! I pulled the curve up!!! :):)
Awesome job, Domer!
And I gave my first post-graduate literature class today, and it didn't go too badly!! Horribly stressful but ultimately exciting! :)
:thumbs_up THAT is COOL. I am hoping to teach literature at a university sometime in the future :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bitterfly
I've spent over three hours almost all in one go on a single scholarship.
Sounds amazing, Bitterfly. I'm still getting a handle on undergraduate teaching (still a doctoral candidate near the start of the dissertation process), but it must be exciting when you get to lead graduate level discussion. How is it that it was your first class today, though? Our term is almost done. Is it some sort of short seminar or on an unusual schedule? What's your field or time period of literary interest? I'm a Renaissance woman, myself, as my screen name suggests.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bitterfly
I'm in a slightly different system, which would be hard and long to explain, ha ha! My usual teaching is at undergraduate level, mostly literature and translation, but not specialised since the curriculum changes every year. This is the contrary of boring but keeps me working so much that I had to delay the post-grad class until now (it runs on till March)!
I don't consider myself a specialist of any particular period, but rather a dilettante in and exploratory amateur of many, even though my MAs (? not sure of the equivalent) were about authors of the Romantic and Modernist periods (my faves, in British literature). I still have a LOT to learn and read... And I haven't started on a doctorate yet (they accept you at university level here with a different type of post-graduate diploma), but I'll probably want to work on someone from that period again (or maybe from the Victorian era... see, that's the problem, too much to choose from!).
I noticed you were Renaissance, but I know practically nothing about that period (apart from Shakespeare, whom I've had to give classes on - and even then, not much). :blush:
The older the students are the nicer it is, because they actually understand everything you say! :D But it's hard because they've obviously more demanding.
Haha not a graduate student or anything, still working on my undergrad courses, but I just got a 99/100 on my ethnography midterm exam! My professor is in the top of the field on Mayan archaeology so I really feel like I accomplished something! I studied so hard for it!
I also got a B on my structural and descriptive linguistics midterm, which is crazy because I thought I was gonna fail that one for sure. Another one that I did major studying for!
That sounds really exciting! I'm a PhD student teaching undergraduate courses like Petrarch. I often wonder what it will be like, as a starting professor, to actually teach grad (or post-grad, depending on your location) courses. Sounds kind of daunting, so congratulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bitterfly
Good job on your midterms. It's also nice to hear a student happy with a B that they've worked hard for. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86