January 13, 2010
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"When the going gets tough, the tough get going!"
--Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
1 I was WAY buzzed all day yesterday!
2 I have been working me arse off for three weeks in anticipation of this semester grade deadline. I put over 26 hours in during Christmas, and kept working like a madman.
3 I worked out like a madman as well, keeping visits to the gym at an astonishing 85% of the days in the week. I finally had to lag a bit in the past week due to the deadlines, but dude, I'm addicted!
4 In both cases, I hit a few roadblocks. For one, no matter HOW many hours I spent reading, grading, calculating, and all the rest, I kept falling behind.
5 I called my Dad yesterday telling him that even though I've been working my arse off, I still can't seem to turn the corner on this massive workload.
6 His response? "When the going gets tough, the tough get going!"
7 Ha! We laughed, and then pondered who first laid out that piece of chiasmus (look it up lolZ!). To my knowledge, it was Joseph Kennedy, but some claim the great foooooobowl coach Knute Rockne originated it. I go with Kennedy, even though it seems more of a foooooobowl quote. Nope. It's Joseph Kennedy, to be sure. There are some who insist it was originally written by Billy Ocean. They sent me this as proof:
8 Well, it clearly wasn't originated by Ocean. I told my Dad that the quote used to hang in the locker room of our gym when I was but a bright lad, and that it made me want to kick ass for the rest of my life.
9 Dad said, "Well, that's how you became the person you have become." Always calm and wise.
10 He mighta been blowing smoke, but I don't think so. He KNOWS that I go to the ends of the Earth working hard, and he KNOWS that he and Mom are the reason I do.
11 Man, the guy is my hero, in every sense of the word.
12 AnywayZ, I was SO excited yesterday morning because all of my grading, organizing, and stressing suddenly started to turn the corner, and the grading started taking care of itself.
13 I ALSO had returned to the gym for two straight days, and was pumped and ready to keep working until I finally feel that my health and life outlook would light up others.
14 That didn't QUITE happen yesterday, because I had to work at the school for odd hours, but the almost euphoria from the past two days turned my entire world into a positive go.
15 So all morning I became a tad giddy. Naturally, anytime one gets too filled with absolute Truth and joy, something comes by to blindside it.
16 My cell phone did that to me yesterday.
17 I thought that Dad would LOVE a random call during my lunch break, so I was SO enthused that I shot a status shot out to me peeps on FB.
18 Translation: I commented on my Facebook status that I was pretty darned happy, which was WAY true! ; ) <---------cool sideways winky dude.
19 Shortly thereafter, I tried calling Dad. My cell phone kept blacking out, even though I was sitting what I call the "sweet spot", right in the middle of my classroom and facing the immortal Mt. Hamilton and the wonderful hills of Sannozay.
20 Unfortunately, Dad kept fading out, and the phone kept going dead.
21 Such is life.
22 I finally went home, skipping a trip to the gym but knowing I had to call Dad before 6 (he has a tendency to delay dinner when someone is going to call, and his blood sugar goes haywire), and finally caught him around 5:30.
23 LOVED the conversation, and the rest of the night improved, especially once the Sharks did their thing!
24 So that's about it. Sorry I spent an entire DN on explaining some random FB quote, but every now and again, someone SHOULD explain their random thoughts. It always puzzles me when people say, "Saw a shooting next door yesterday!" followed by a million inquiries, and no real closure. I wonder if everything is okay, or what happened. I think too much, fella. And I worry too much.
25 AnywayZ, I was able to get a half class graded last night, which ALWAYS makes my semester, and it looks like the work is gonna pay off. Today should really move fast, I hope. I have one class, and then I'm free to finish my work.
26 Can't wait to jump in tomorrow and take this entire semester to task! I hope to be done by Thursday at around five, and I'm on a massively perfect pace to hit that deadline.
27 I'll keep ya posted.
28 Meanwhile, I have a nice roast in the oven, and I'm gonna go attack it right this minute!
29 To you, it's time for coffee and mellowness, but enjoy that too!
30 And finally a VERY special bon voyage to me great friend and confidante Thuy Ann Le, who heads for D.C. today, and then on to South Africa, Vietnam, and Brazeel, not necessarily in that order, but I'm so proud of her I can't even tellya. She'll be doing research for a program at UCSD. I'm guessing she'll be helping a lot of people along the way.
31 Godspeed TA! You are the world's gain.
32 To everyone else, Peace.
~H~
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