Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Um....where's my class?

Today was kind of random.  I got up for Islamic Studies, which was pretty slow today, spaced out through most of it, also spaced out through BMB, what w/learning the various theories of emotion AGAIN.  Some of it I've never learned before, but we're sort of moving out of that material, so it's back to boredom.  Then, however, my day got interesting.  I hiked over to where my microbiology class was....SUPPOSED...to meet.  I just recently found the lecture theatre where they moved the class to, so I was really proud that I got to class on monday, but when I returned to said theatre today....there was some random polisci class in there?  Hrm....I'm positive it was the right theatre, and nothing was mentioned about a room change on the website....did I just miss something?  And the lecture recording is up online, so they apparently had class SOMEWHERE.....*fail*

I returned to RMIT and spent the day putzing around and doing some work until neuroscience at 4:15.  Though on my way to class, I noticed that the weather was kind of freaking out.  The sky was.....brown.  That isn't supposed to happen last time I checked....and the wind apparently maxed out in Melbourne at about 110 km/hr.  For those not on the metric system, that's nearly 70 mph winds......wtf Melbourne.  They're actually debating evacuating downtown due to the weather extremes.  It came on so suddenly, I don't understand.

Luckily for me, I was too busy doing TKD to be outside during the chaos!  I actually wasn't that late for warmup today, which was cool.  We did paddle drill for a bit, and they finally made an intermediate line, so I wasn't feeling totally spastic.  We worked natabans and spin hooks for a good amount of time, which was awesome, since I needed the work.  I need to not start my nataban jump so early so I can actually get enough rotation to land the kick, and I need to wait to extend my spin hooks until I'm closer to my target :(  Other than that, I feel progress is slowly being made :D

Practice then got interesting, as they decided to work forms, which I've never done before.  So back with the white-belts I went.  We learned a "14-step" exercise, which was just basic blocks and punches, and Jeremy was laughing at me for getting bored so easily....oops.  He then attempted to teach us Taeguk Il Jang, the first TKD form, which I already semi-knew just from watching so many belt tests, so at the water break, he pulled me aside and made me learn Taeguk Ee Jang (2nd form) anyways.  Whee for actually being ahead of the learning curve when I get back to Berkeley.  He wants me to learn the 3rd and 4th forms too, just in case I test here, and I could possibly double promote :D  Poomsae (forms) were actually way more entertaining to do than they look, which I was surprised at.

I opted to stay in tonight, and I'm dealing with caffeine withdrawals and possibly staving off a cold and am sore as hell from BJJ, so I'm glad to have a night in.  I'm gonna do a quick stretching session, since I've been horrible about staying on track, and hopefully another one tomorrow morning before class :D

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