On with the show
It’s 8:30, and I can barely keep my eyes open. I didn’t get up particularly early or any such thing, but I guess it’s been sort of a long day.
I had my first section this morning at 9. It both went well and sort of crap, which seems to be how section always goes. The atmosphere was really great. The kids asked a bunch of questions, some clarification, some curious, and I had good participation in all the questions I asked of them. That’s the good. The bad… my computer wouldn’t work with the projection system for some reason, so I couldn’t use all the web resouces I had prepared. But we didn’t even end up getting that far, because we spent so long on the really basic (and reallllly boring) consonant chart. It’s good if it was helpful, and it seemed to be so, but I definitely felt like I wasn’t quite on my game, and couldn’t entertain the kids like I wanted. We’ll see if I can’t spice it up next week. And hopefully I can think of some way to improve Friday’s section so they don’t get stuck with this same boring task!
Skipped over to the Center to get into my cogneuro class (late, since my section conflicts) which had a guest lecturer today. I got there only about 35 minutes late, which was good, but the lecturer didn’t seem to know how long our class was. We got out about 45 minutes early, which means I didn’t get much of the matieral at all! It is, however, always a nice treat to get out early. Walked home with Lewis (sans bike), recombobulated myself here, and then headed out to the Center again to meet with my fMRI partner from yesterday. She was too busy to discuss data or anything, and our lab professor is in Hawaii, so there really wasn’t anything to do. Thankfully the Center is right next to the gym, so it wasn’t out of the way to drop by.
Gym was good. It’s ridiculous how easy it is to get my heart rate up to near max, so I always try and make sure I’m staying at a reasonable rate and not working too hard. I’ve been trying to aim for something like the suggested 30-minutes of vigorous activity a day, and that’s pretty managable. I’ve never worked out regularly before, but I’m really surprised how big of a difference it makes in my stress levels. I was chuckling to myself in the lockroom today when I realized that I’m one of the lucky people there who achieves their goal every day. Very easy when your goal is “do any exercise”, and not gaining strength or losing weight or learning to do stuff. Whoohoo! I’d like to think the regular de-stressing exercise has something to do with my lack of migraines so far this month… and I’m still major palipitation free since spring break too!