The Good and the Bad

Hey everyone. I’m glad that you’re all enjoying my latest Q&A post.

Strawberry Green Monster topped with granola, raisins, chia, and TJ's peanut butter with flaxseeds.

Frankly, I didn’t really want to write this post since my week has been all over the place. I feel like a frickin’ mountain goat with all of the ups and downs that I’ve been experiencing since I got home from the long weekend on Monday.

Good – I’m already done with the first week of classes. The last day of the session is August 17, giving me a little over a week until I move.

Bad – I still haven’t heard bad about my Honors Option refusal. It’s been over a month and I feel like no one wants to work with me to try and figure this out, despite the fact that I’ve already contacted 3 people all in different levels of administration.

OOIAJ; overnight oats with chia in an almost-empty Sunbutter jar.

FANTASTIC – The boyfrand texted me the most awesome thing the other day while I was studying: He wants to become a vegetarian! Note: I in no way pestered him about this or lectured him at all. But, this seriously made my night. I can’t wait to help him as he transitions to the veg life.

Not So Good – My IBS has been absolutely terrible since Monday. Last night I was even woken up by pain and no matter what I did it wouldn’t go away. It’s starting to interfere with my daily life again and that is not OK in the least. But, I have no idea how to get better. None.

Slice of Zucchini Quinoa Lasagna.

Delicious – I made my first Mama Pea recipe yesterday: Zucchini Quinoa Lasagna. I didn’t exactly follow the recipe, I guess I got a little too excited and accidentally skipped some steps. Oops! But I think that it still turned out pretty well; though I need to work on my zucchini slicing skillz. A few of the modifications that I made are: I used a bigger pan (I don’t have an 8″x8″), replaced the onion with garlic (I totally read “garlic” instead of “onion”), used a tomato-basil pasta sauce instead of marinara sauce, omitted the non-dairy cream cheese (I had some on hand but forgot about it) and non-dairy cheese topping. I’m hoping to make this again when the boyfrand comes to visit in a few weeks, but to pay more attention to what I’m doing, haha.

Blah – I don’t know if it’s just the fact that I’ve felt like complete crap this week, but I’ve just had a really hard time keeping depression at bay. It’s not an all the time thing, but it does seem like I’ve been feeling bad more often than I’ve been feeling good. I’m going to give it a few more days, but if it persists then I’m going to make an appointment with my psychiatrist to talk and try to figure this thing out. Until then, I probably won’t be posting as much, but I will still be around commenting and tweeting most likely.

Green Monster topped with... who knows?

Much Needed – I had a really nice time hanging out with my old friend Ash the other day. We just talked a lot, nothing deep, but then I can’t really expect to just delve back into the kind of friendship that we had once-upon-a-time right away. I Am Number Four was on in the background. Not a terrible movie, but I don’t think I’m quite as devoted to it as she is (this was her fourth time watching it). I hope that it’s not another 2 months before I get to see her again. As much as I’ve been upset about our friendship over the past 2 years, it kind of all goes out of my mind when we actually get together.

Could Be Better – Classes starting means that I spend most of my “free time” reading and studying for said classes. Accelerated courses for the win. I sort of miss being able to read whatever I want whenever I want without having to worry about falling behind in something, but there is literally no way that I can work ahead in my classes because the course content is time-released, as in, I can’t view it until a certain date/time, and those dates/times are exactly the most desirable. It’ll all be over soon though, I suppose and I go back to having a normally-paced course load at the end of August when classes start up again.

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Strawberry Banana Green Monster; topped with strawberry-banana puffs, raisins, and buckwheat.

Yesterday (Tuesday) was the first day of my second session of summer courses. I’ll be taking Introductory Psychology and Management Skills for the next 7 weeks. I’ve already had to take quizzes and read 3 chapters from my textbooks! No rest for the wicked I guess.

I also just received in the mail one of the books that the RD that I’m interning for wrote so that I can read it and get to know a bit more about what she does. Is it nerdy how excited I am to read about diabetes? haha.

There’s actually quite a bit of overlap so far in my classes, which I always think is so cool when you can use your knowledge from other courses  in other disciplines.

Apple, Raisin, and Walnut oatmeal with a chopped-up nectarine thrown in.

So far so good. I definitely think that I’m going to enjoy my Psychology class better than my Management course. It doesn’t hurt that it’s online rather than 3 hours of straight lecture with no computers allowed! Gag me. I don’t usually bring a laptop to class anyway, but I still don’t like it when professors forbid it. This is college; we’re adults. If we don’t pay attention then that’s our own fault. I for one am not distracted when other kids in class are on their computers because it’s just so common to have at least one kid typing away no matter where I am on or near campus. white noise.

Wednesday = Zumba tonight with mi madre. WELL, USUALLY. It didn’t meet this week because of the holiday. I like the class okay, but I just get bored doing essentially the same songs and steps every week. I know, this coming from the girl who owns workout DVDs which by definition can’t ever change, but there you have it. Of course I’m going to stick it out for the rest of the season, but I probably won’t be signing up for another class given the chance any time soon. Since I didn’t have Zumba, I opted for strength training at home instead. HELLO Jillian!

Blueberry Green Monster topped with raisins, puffs, and peanut butter.

I also get to hang out with an old friend of mine later tonight. We’ve fallen apart a lot over the past 2.5 years and I’ve tried to reconnect so many times, and I’m still trying. I still don’t understand why most everyone I knew dropped me after the last day of high school, and I’m not getting any answers. But, keep trying I do. For someone like me who really doesn’t have many friends I have to try to reach out and get back the ones that I used to have, right?

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How do you know that a friendship is over and to just give up on it? – I apparently don’t know, and no one will ever come right out and say “I don’t like you, stop contacting me, we’re never going to hang out and I don’t want to be friends with you.”

Should computers be allowed in college classes?