Already Looking Up--At What I'm Not Sure.

So today I was happier than I've ever remembered being before. I said I'd feel better. I think the main difference was getting actual exercise this morning, thus endorphins. It might also be that I decided to try my ADD medication again, and I did so this morning. Plus, I had no work, or school, so it was largely about doing what I wanted to.

I started off the day playing racquetball for at least an hour. I have huge bruises on my knees to prove it, because I can't play most sports without unconsciously diving whenever the need arises. I also got little holes in the knees of the pants I was wearing. Anyway, I didn't black out like last time, so I see that as an improvement. I didn't do too badly, but I did lose, considering I was playing against 3 different guys I work with: Leon, Harold, and Tricksome. Tricksome always shoots us with rubber bands at work, even though they're now strictly prohibited. He wants to get fired so he can get unemployment, but Gregory will never fire him, or anyone else for that matter. So then I did a terrible job at ping pong, followed by a two on two game of basketball that was not bad at all. I need to work on my free throws though. I'm not "not good" by any means, but my dad tore out our basketball court when I was younger, so I rarely got to practice that skill. All in all we were at the field house for 2 and a half hours.

Anyway, the day started off well. I also cleaned my room partially before that. I had a major laundry day, and I feel pretty good about that. I went to run errands after the field house. In So Jo. I had to return my broken phone, return/pick up stuff to/from the library, get a package and my mail from my parents house (I now have my W2 so I can finally do my taxes), steal peanut butter from my parent's house, and get my pictures developed (from Fun Week especially). Maybe I'll modify and post some of those when I post my Fun Week synopsis sometime soonish. I have Anatomy stuff to do till Thursday though, so there you go.

So all of the pictures that will be developed by Thursday, my package of cds I ordered and received, the cds and movies from the library, my W2, and of course the peanut butter--made me really happy today. I smiled at strangers. I had a friendly, and not at all brief, conversation with my 80 something land lord. He was taking an old 10 speed that was missing the front tire out of the garage, and when I asked him about it, he said he was training for the Olympics. He's the most adorable old man, and when you look at him from behind it looks like he doesn't have a head, because he's so hunched backed. I want to put him in my pocket sometimes.

Anyway, I had my Institute class today, "The Gospel and World Religions," which I absolutely love. We get so many hand outs with a wealth of information in them, and my professor is just so good and funny to watch, and in addition to that I love the people I'm taking it with: Sheidi, Gus, and Distracting. Distracting does just what his name implies, and his whisper is pretty unwhisperish. But man does he make me laugh. We learned about Judaism today, and I think it was my favorite so far. Kind of a side note: last week I discovered, to my amazement, that Russia was in my Institute class. I haven't seen her since her dad's funeral when she came back from her mission briefly. I think she lives in SL, and is just working around there. I need to get her number next week.

Yeah, so lastly I studied in the Biology building with my roommate for an hour, working on our problem sets (I didn't even know the biology building had a 3rd floor, and I may have found my new study spot), then we went to the Review Session in the cadaver lab tonight. It was informative, and I've got to say, I was altogether very focused today, which is irregular for me, but highly pleasing. Proof of that is that I just sat down and wrote an entire post, then posted it right away. So now I'm in the library, researching a few final points for my problem sets, and tomorrow is looking to be pretty good, minus the statistics part.