The Painting

The walker has exposed his back and braved the black pavement.

The wolves have heard his footfalls and their howling has opened the heart of the mountain.

The worm stirs at the bottom of the spiral and the cocoon has begun to churn its milky contents.

The warrior within readies to stretch his limbs out into the effigy.



Oh yes...

the flames...

I can feel them once again.

Rising from the Rubble.

So... I'm back to writing this. The last four months have easily ranked themselves among the least enjoyable and most stressful of my life. Probably even higher up on that chart than my time in the military. But... I'm back, and I've learned a lot about myself. Same could be said of how important it is to stay true to yourself, your dreams, and to have good people in your life that truly support and help you be you.

Speaking of good people... I have to mention the name Trevor Whitman. Not sure if I'd completely bless off on him being a saint just yet, but so far I'd have to say that he's at least a positive-energy kind of guy whose enthusiasm and consistently upbeat demeanor is rather infectious. Same goes for his wife, Christina. I say that because having survived the tornado that ravaged the remnants of this past semester... I've got my life back together to the point that I've been able to get back into the gym and I absolutely love being there. So much so that the last couple of days has really solidified for me what it is that I want to specialize in within the fields of psychology and biology. Sports science, or "fight science" if you will. Yep... that's officially my thing.

On Tuesday I shared that realization with Trevor amidst a conversation about the various aspect of fighting, and he welcomed the idea of my working with him and the people that frequent the gym. Not only that but he let me in on what he thinks is the biggest need as far as the psychological side of the game goes. I got to say that I'm pretty close to being as excited as Rebecca Black on a Friday. I feel more focused, determined, and confident in my academic pursuits now that I have a specific goal to aim for. I feel like a train that has been locked onto its rails properly, and the only thing left to do is to fire up the furnace. Next stop... Loki Jones the fight scientist.

LL&P

Today was a good day, and tonight was an even better night. Will write more about it later if I have the time.

Hope that anyone who reads this had an awesome day of being alive as well.

LL&P.

If someone can explain to me how trigonometry is useful knowledge for a doctor/research scientist to have please do, because so far all my "teacher" has done is talk about triangles and ask what might as well be labeled as rhetorical questions since he doesn't stop talking long enough to realize that a third of the class has been lulled to sleep by his monotone voice, the other third are off somewhere else via their phone/ipad/laptop, and the last third are trying to pay attention but are struggling to keep their head above the flood of information that spews out of his mouth at about 10 liters per second. In other words... my motivation to learn trigonometry is waning faster than a third quarter moon. I'm going to plop myself down in the merc lab and do the first homework tomorrow though so maybe someone in there will help me get my math flame burning a bit brighter.

Today was a good day though despite my trig class putting me in zombie mode for an hour and fifteen minutes. Both Chem. 2061 and Bio. 3412 were solid lectures. Hopefully workstudy will be quiet enough that I'll be able to start picking away at the mastering chemistry practice and homework problems, as well as catch up on a lot of the reading. Not planning on doing anything this weekend but burying my nose in my books though so I know that this will be the last week that I'm not caught up with the reading Given that we've got monday off for Labor Day Weekend I'll probably even end ahead of the game, which is something that I need to plan better to accomplish even earlier at the start of each semester.

On a complete tangent... there was a short segment on ESPN2's E:60 show about Kaiju Big Battle. It's too out there for me to even explain, but if you are game for some silly nerd humor definitely check out this video...

LL&P.

Very productive day that was hitting on all cylinders right out the gate.

Got to the downtown Littleton light rail station right in time to get one of the last remaining parking spots. Hit up the Chase bank nearby to drop off the change necessary to up my bank account to exactly $1000.00 for a nice round number to start off September with. Got back to the station right as the d-line was rolling in. Did have a bit of a hiccup with a young lady pulling up way past the stop sign and blocking the cross walk where the CCD parking lot lets out on to Speer Blvd. Funny though that once I veered around in front of here that she acted like she wasn't the one in the wrong by yelling something at me before driving off. I had the JRE pumping through my headphones though so I didn't hear any of her negativity. Got to the office on time regardless, and was pleasantly surprised by a pretty quiet couple of hours that actually allowed me to get some studying in. Banged out some two chapters worth of psych statistics reading and notes before taking off for some gen. chem. II supplemental instruction with Khan who really helped solidify the concepts of how the intermolecular forces of a molecule shape its characteristics in terms of viscosity, boiling point, vapor pressure, etc. Even got to talk a bit of Muay Thai shop with him, and how I hope to be able to get something going on campus as far as it goes.

After SI it was class time. Bio 3611 is still a bit of a question mark to me since I missed the first two lectures, but today was the first day that I was able to follow along fairly well. Hopefully catching up on all of the reading this weekend will further that along. Psych statistics lecture was a so so class. Aaron is a good dude and does a good job of making the class as lively as he can, but there isn't a whole lot you can do with today's subject matter. Got to tell it like it is that I'm not all that happy with his not letting us pick who we want to work with for the course's major research project, and instead leave it to sheer randomness. Who knows though. Maybe it will turn out for the better. Either way I got to do my best at this point to just go with the flow. Going to have to do a bit of that with making up my incomplete work in Dr. Bruehl's honors gen. chem. I lab as well. Hopefully with it being my unofficial 19th credit hour for this semester does prove to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I feel good about it, but leery that if I don't stay on top of my game that the whole thing could nose dive.

With that being said... I've got to get to bed if I'm going to keep this ship on course tomorrow, and at least get 6 hours of sleep. Should have been there over an hour ago. I imagine this will prove to be quite the reoccurring theme throughout my blogging about this semester. Nonetheless...

LL&P.

Another solid day. Nothing really out of the ordinary to make note of. Just got to keep this momentum going, and keep picking up more speed wherever I can.

LL&P.