Language: I have this cumulative test tomorrow... It's a new thing the school is trying out on us and all reports indicate that it is pretty horrific. Not only do they change the format of the test, use materials that are above our level, and decide to tell us at the last minute that the test is cumulative throughout the course but we found out today that the test is not graded by our teaching team. In fact, our team never sees the test. Some other group of individuals grades the tests and hands us back our scores without even telling us what we got wrong. There's no feedback. No chance to figure out why things are the way they are or challenge the teacher's limited English vocabulary when they misinterpret our answers.
The exercises today were mind-numbing and the two female sailors in my class were spazzing over a joke our class leader played on us by announcing that the speaking test would be today instead of tomorrow. After 10 minutes of hysterics I finally asked them what they were hoping to accomplish by freaking out. So they jumped on me with accusations of being an emotionless jerk who had to have the last word in everything. There was some other stuff too but it all started to blur together...
All the theatrics is starting to make class a royal pain. My friends are now in a similar situation in their own classes. Hrm. It's not a nice thing to do but I think I'm bringing straws into class on Monday. These kids are in the military. It's about time they acted like it.
About the only good thing in class today was getting to watch a bit of a movie as we were all too frazzled to stumble through ineffectual review exercises.
Marathon: I was pressed for time today so I did a short but intense stairs workout. I climbed a grand total of ten three-to-four story staircases at a good clip. My quadriceps really did not want to move at the end of it all... but I finished the short run. I'm glad to report that my muscles recover from exertion pretty quickly but I get the feeling that I'll be feeling this tomorrow.
Fitness: I didn't get to lift today but I did work on my abs and this section is for my muscular development outside of running. Wow. The little things make all the difference in how effective an exercise is. In this case, putting the arms over your head during reverse crunches and putting a rolled up towel under your lower back for cross and normal crunches are key. It hurt but that's a good thing in this case. I just wish it didn't take so long.
Automotive: $492. That's how much the NEX Autoport is going to charge me to replace my seat belt, replace my brakes and rotors, and replace my entire front passenger-side hub assembly. That is a whole lot less than I thought it would be and all the work is under warranty. They also inspected my entire vehicle and are going to get me four new tires, which will cost a bit more but it's needed. Hopefully things will be fine once this is done... If not, they'll find out what else is wrong and fix it in record time. However, that wheel did have 25-27 degrees of motion on it and, apparently, this is the first time they've ever seen a wheel do that and not fall off so... Yeah. I'm glad this is all getting fixed.
Personal: Chugging along... Things are moving forward in a good way.
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