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I haven't been here in a while. Great accomplishments all!!:thumbs_up
I ran one mile (1.609 km) in 5 minutes and 32 seconds about two months ago. Improved my previous record by 20 seconds!
great job, Dori!
Wow, that is outstanding. Are you on a track team? The best I ever did was 6 minutes even when i was about 21. Breaking six minutes is so hard, and you did it by almost half a minute. Dori are you a gal or a guy, if you don't mind me asking?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dori
staying off-line is an accomplishment SleepyWitch (=internet addict) has yet to achieve!Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
hahaha, Sleepy. I meant this thread. I can't break my lit net addiction. :) Not sure I want to. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Hmmm it's not probably something I am supposed to be boasting about but I really feel like boasting so here it is. I am doing well in all classes yet. The tests I gave were good. But the real thing would be known after monthly exams...
Ah and also it's still quite hot and electricity goes off, but I don't complain as such! :p
congrats Pensy! i wish i was as smart and hard-working as you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
yeeeeeepieyayeyh, I've finally started writing on my thesis after months of research and procrastination. I've written 4 pages so far. maybe I'll write more later, but I'm tired, so maybe I'll just call it a day.
Thanks! :) But hey don't wish that....because I am not sure if I am either of the two...Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Goodluck with the rest of it! :)Quote:
yeeeeeepieyayeyh, I've finally started writing on my thesis after months of research and procrastination. I've written 4 pages so far. maybe I'll write more later, but I'm tired, so maybe I'll just call it a day.
I made second chair in orchestra.
I'm a freshman and most everybody else are Juniors and Seniors.
We have nine cellists.
All my freshman buddies are at the back... It's awfully lonely doing good.
That is fabulous Anza. Hopefully some day I will see you playing in the New York Philharmonic. ;) Why lonely? In time things will fall into place. One can't help but form friendships. You just have to find the right people.
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:banana: :banana: :banana: Yay!! Hooray for Shalot!! Good luck. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
I wish you nothing but the best in your new endeavor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Enjoy.
Jeff
Congratulations and good luck in your new job, Shalot! :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up
I'm so glad for you!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
what's your new job, Shalot? congrats
Yeay Shalot!:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Congratulations Shalot :D
Glad to hear you got the job Shalot:) Good luck with the thesis Sleepy, and congrats on making chair Anza. Pensive it is good to hear you are doing well in your classes. I bet it takes a lot of hard work to keep up with everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
I don't normally visit this thread to post anything of my own, but I had to put this here. First, I graduated college:banana: I'm officially finished and I even graduated cum laude. I have also managed to land an interview with a marketing agency that I wish to work for. So... yep, I had to share that good news. It's not even to really brag. I'm just excited about the whole deal:)
Awesome!! Some of the proudest moments of my life were when i graduated at various levels. Congratulations Meg. :banana:
Congratulations Meg!! I don't think anyone realizes how hard it is to go to school when you have children. I know you've worked very hard. I'm proud of you, girl. Good luck on your interview!
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Originally Posted by Virgil
Thank you. I'm looking foward to the interview, and I appreciate the well wishes. I can use all the good luck I can muster:)Quote:
Congratulations Meg!! I don't think anyone realizes how hard it is to go to school when you have children. I know you've worked very hard. I'm proud of you, girl. Good luck on your interview!
wow, that's great, Meg. congrats! it's really amazing how you can be a mother and graduate at the same time! you must have a lot of energy!
good luck with your job interview!
Plus, don't forget she's writing a novel. And i believe she works part time too. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. You are a hard worker, Meg.
:lol: I don't know where the thread about our typical days went, but they're normally pretty busy. I do work part time on the weekends, I'm also writing a book, like you said, and working on about 15 other crafts at the moment. I don't know why I fill my days to so overflowing, but I seem to always do it. I can honestly say I don't have some moment in my day where I'm not doing something unless it is when I'm asleep. Thanks again everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I was offered to publish some of my essays in a literary magazine... which I am incredibly proud with, given that it is not their usual practice to publish works of young people (even amongst older students!), let alone minors who are yet to enter university. :)
So damn proud. :D And I am on peaceful terms again with my Literature professor, due to that.
You ought to be proud Anastasia, that is great. :thumbs_up :thumbs_up What are the subjects of those essays?
Ironically, all three of them were originally written for school (:lol:), as I tend to be too lazy to take time to compose things of such lenght and complexity if not forced by school to write something little and symbolic. So we get assigned a small essay, and I get hooked up in the midst of it and end up working on it for dozen hours and exceeding by far what was supposed to be written. Professors do not complain, and I am happy because I know that otherwise I would never have written those works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
So, yes. One of them is an analysis (philosophical far more than literary) of several Baudelaire's poems (we were given choice, so I took my favourite ones); it is six and half pages long and I adore it, because I was writing it sick, in fever, with horrible headache and I was nearly getting hallucinations of how bad I felt physically - and that is perfect condition to write about Baudelaire. Words just flew, I saw it all in its essence, all was obvious to me, I felt lucid when writing it.
The another one is an essay on kitsch (if that is how it is called in English :blush: ), which I am not sure yet if they are going to publish given that the topic is not quite literary, but I accessed the problematics from philosophical more than art theory standpoint, so it might get in; it is twelve pages long and one of the rare things I wrote entirely rationally. I wrote not about concrete examples of kitsch in art (though I mentioned those in a couple of occassions), but about kitsch as phenomenon and how do I view it in the context of art, as well as its significance in the world and how far/close is it from/to the idea of art, ecc, unfortunately, I so incredibly suck trying to convey my thougths about it in English that it is probably for the best not to go further. ;)
And the third one deals with tragedy - not only as literary genre (I did draw connections with classical Greek plays), but also as the concept of tragical - it was originally supposed to be an analysis of a couple of texts on the topic (I got this book on theory of tragedy filled with texts by Schiller, Hegel, etc), but as I was getting more and more ideas writing it, it ended up in a work of its own, which is only partially an interpretation of views similar to mine on the topic. This one is twenty pages long, but a page and half only are composed out of references, so... :D
congrats Anastasija. you must be a real genius :eek:
I'm a guy. I am on a track team, and I also play soccer and ice hockey at the varsity level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Congratulations, it sounds like you have been granted a real honor:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Anastasija
Congratulations Anastasija and all for the success you people have achieved! :)
another of my infamous swimming boasts:
I hadn't really done my weekly swimming in ages (i.e. I my 3000 m a week). if I could find the time to go to the pool, all I managed was 2000m crawl (crawling is an energy-saving technique, so it's a lot more relaxed than breast stroke).
yesterday, my best friend and me went swimming and I did 1500m crawl and 1500 m breaststroke. :banana: when I started doing the breast stroke the insight of my thighs hurt so bad I thought I'd tear a muscle any second. that probably means "Sleepy you are a lazy fat old woman, do more breast stroke!"
my long term aim is to go twice a week and do 3000m breaststroke on my and 2000m crawl with my best friend.
Unfamiliar I am with swimming and can't probably judge what distance covered in what time is considered really good but this sounds very nice! Congratulations! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
thanks Pensy.
3000 m is quiet a bit, but when you do it every week (like I used to) it's not that much. some people do 5000m crawl in one go! I swim for endurance, so I don't care how fast/slow I am.
I think most recreational swimmers will do something like 1000m for every time they go, if they don't chatter too much.
edit: you can see the swimming records for professional competitive swimmers here. the longest distance they seem to do is 1500 m, but those are races. they aim for speed, so they do half the distance I do but are double or tree times as fast.
Outstanding Sleepy. I am such an inefficient swimmer that I don't think I could do 200m without stopping.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
yeah, but I haven't really done my 3000m breasstroke in ages. it's one thing to do after a couple of lazy weeks, but it's a totally different matter to build up enough discipline to do it every week (although it gets a lot easier when you go every week). grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, i'm a lazy witchQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Ah, but you look so thin in your pictures. You're fine. With you're phisique you just need to excercise for fun. Just quit the smoking and you'll lve to 100. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch