Weekend reflections

24 hours. That’s plenty of time to study.

Unless you’re me, of course, and have been coming down with senioritis (hey, spell-check says that’s a real word!) ever since going back to school this semester. For the life of me, it is absolutely impossible to focus on my studies.

Like this one book I’m trying to read. Horrible, horrible book. Even my professor said as much. I have to be prepared to answer questions on it this Wednesday, and I’m the only person who volunteered to read the book. Now it’s only 200 or so pages, so you can bang that out over a weekend.

Unless you’re me!

It doesn’t help that the guy who wrote it blew his intellectual load after the first few chapters. I guess he felt he had to offer some “value added” after making his point. Ugh. Read some pages, have a beer, check the email, read some more pages, do some laundry, read some more pages, reread the last 20 pages because I haven’t been paying attention…

And I still need to check in to make sure I’m fully on track to graduate. I’ve been keeping track on my own, and I think everything’s okay, but I’d like to have someone at Mason check my records, just to make sure. I SO do not want to go a semester longer than I have to!

All this yelping has been paying off :) First, I go and have a pedicure at Ibiza on Saturday, and it turns out they actually checked out my yelp review! Wow! I was in shock. I mean, did they recognize my picture? Do they check out their reviews every so often and figured I was the Jason in question? At any rate, I didn’t argue… I’d much rather slip back in that comfy leather chair and have my feet rubbed.

And when I went to check out my profile today, I thought yelp was having a seizure. There were 5 or 6 compliments. I’m struggling to think what the hell I wrote that warranted all this attention all of a sudden, since my last review was a week ago. So I go to read my compliments, and it all makes sense.

I made Review of the Day today! When this happens, the review in question is profiled on their home page. I still haven’t figured out the formula for having a review made ROTD, but I’ll take any attention I can get. It was really nice to get those compliments… it’s things like this that keep me writing. That and Trivia Night :)

Dinner should be really good tonight. I say that because I’m going back to the training table come Monday. I started that Abs Diet a few weeks ago, but was only doing it half-assed. Now, I’ve been sticking with the actual diet part about 50-50, and I’ve taken some weight off. But I’ve been cheating too, and I haven’t been going to the gym as often as I should. Though it’s a scapegoat to a certain point, I’m gonna have to lay at least some of the blame on school.

So I work from about 8am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have class. Unfortunately, both classes are from 7:20 to 10pm. Even though they let us out a little early, by the time I come home, I’m damn tired, and it’s tough to eat healthy. You don’t wanna cook. Even if you do, you just know your meal’s gonna sit heavy on you, adding more pounds. The alternative tends to be a cop-out… getting snacks from the grocery store when I walk home from class. And since I can’t get into a regular sleep schedule, I’m waking up later and ignoring breakfast when I get up. And between the nights I go to class and the nights I’m recovering from class, I have no desire to hit the gym.

So I’m going to try to make another go of diet and exercise. I really don’t have a whole lot to lose, and I’ve still been eating much better than this time last year, but I’d still like to make some changes. My dinner tonight, a ribeye marinated in KC Masterpiece Steakhouse marinade and washed down with either beer or wine (haven’t decided yet!) is going to be my last splurge until next weekend.

Is it Saturday yet?