School For The Gifted

Is this what you were referring to tonight Mike??? I'm still laughing. Okay Readers...here is what happened based on my perception and interpretation...
I worked out with Trainer yesterday after not working out for five days. When I arrived at the gym tonight to meet him again my legs and arms were on fire. As I was running he told me we would not be touching any weights tonight. We were only going to do exercises where I was working with my body. That means I did two hundred push ups, lots of squats, a new type of lunge, and some pull ups. So I got to the bar where I was to pull up and got ready to go. (I'm laughing so hard right now just typing this...) Mike says, "Tammy, you need your feet to go the other way or you are going to pull the bar off on you." I look at the bar and said, "Oh yeah. Yeah because it's not connected on this side." I turned myself around and as I began Mike said I remind him of the kid in this far side cartoon. Maybe I have not told Mike this, but I have told my husband many times...as I'm working on this doctorate there is soooo much new knowledge going in my brain that some stuff (and usually it's the common sense stuff) has to leave. There is simply not room for everything. AND more importantly, this is not a doctorate in physics...it's in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis which would explain how I misjudged my distance yesterday and almost sprinted into the mirrored wall (which was complicated by the fact that I was supposed to be HIGH fiving Trainer on my way back and he was making me jump for it)and how tonight when leaving the gym I walked into the door. I'm still laughing!

Well I ended up not working out as much last week because I got icky sick. Thursday morning I woke up with this horrible mid back pain which didn't get better as the day went on. As a matter of fact, I became light headed and nauseous. I cancelled my session with Mike that night and was asleep before 7:00. I don't like to cancel my sessions it makes me grouchy, but to be completely honest...I felt so yucky I didn't even care. Friday I went to the chiropractor who said, "Tammy, what have you done?" I truly don't know what I did. So after another visit to the chiro on Saturday morning I was good to go for last night.

Truly, as I have spent this entire weekend working on this stinking Research Prospectus, I am very confident that working out is the BEST stress relief ever. Some of my fellow cohort members question how I have time to do the gym thing while going through this program, but I think I would be close to four hundred pounds and a wreck if I weren't doing it. I look forward to going to the gym each day. Even though I'm getting a lot better at pushing myself on my own, the workouts with Trainer are still the best. In order to write the Research Prospectus I have had to read over several other dissertations. There is this acknowledgement section. I'm pretty sure Trainer is going to get acknowledged in my dissertation because working out has been a major part of the doctoral journey.

I've hit a wall this semester with the doctoral program. If I hadn't invested so much time and money I think this semester would have been where I bowed out. Okay, probably not...because I don't quit stuff, but I have wanted to quit several times this semester. I'm burned out. I'm tired of reading and writing and revising and editing. With that said, I'm still enjoying the journey. I love learning. I really do. It's an amazing experience. Hopefully, a year from now I'll be defending the dissertation and so much closer to DR!!!!

Just one more thing before I sign off tonight. I've been sitting in here with my laptop for about three hours since I returned from the gym. Aside from going up and down the stairs to do laundry (which my legs are screaming at me for) I've been doing homework steady for three hours. Do you have any idea how many times pop tarts are advertised in three hours? Do you have any idea how good a pop tart sounds right now? I don't normally eat pop tarts! What the heck? It's simply because I want a carb...I get it, but holy moly!!! And now I'm watching this special on the upcoming Royal Wedding. You should see the candidates for the wedding cake...I want to dive my face right in. I can help Kate and William pick that cake out with NO problem!