Alright, nobody took me up on my offer of responses to questions, but for once I have a few moments of free time so I’ll post a quick update.
I’m back at school (what??!), and I’m taking one more class than last quarter, and the classes I was already in have gotten more intense. Overall, it’s intense. Near the end of first week, I heard someone say, “Wow, this quarter picked up quick.” Then a third or fourth year said, “Yeah, everyone says that every quarter.” That’s how it goes around here.
Second week included the excellent tradition Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko, which was originally created in 1982 or 83 to show off martial arts to students. It’s been well-supported by the University ever since as one of the many Winter Quarter traditions clearly aimed at reducing depression. It mainly consists of a few hundred students waking up at 5:30 AM every day of second week to do calisthenics followed by trying out a random martial art or dance style.
There are also lectures and other activities throughout the week (the ice carving looked pretty cool), culminating in a walk to the Point (which juts out into Lake Michigan) Friday morning and the nude “Polar Bear Run” later that day. Oh, and anyone who goes to calisthenics every day of the week gets a free shirt on Friday. I only went on Monday. Tuesday morning I woke up and had an epiphany: I really do like sleeping after all. Then I went back to sleep.
Also, I set up this nifty system where every time I open my laptop, it automatically saves a snapshot from the webcam and opens up a text file (new one every day) in which I write down my thoughts or interesting activities. This way I’ll have something to look over for blog posts like this one.
Well, until next time… uhhh… remind me to post here or I won’t! :D
