Off to the Holy...
Dec. 20th, 2010 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormWell. I've spoken a lot about dramatic relationship stuff on here lately. That's basically sorted: I have a thing or two to learn in that regard about patience and remembering to enjoy the other things in my life but I've put a lid on it for now.
Yesterday I spent the day doing things that made me happy: I went for very good dim sum with some friends, including a couple I hadn't seen in a long time or didn't know very well; I snuggled and drank tea and chatted with people all day; the snuggling and chatting flowed into a group sushi event which was, again, very good. During dim sum, as we're all paying slightly more attention to the food than to each other but still discussing things, I realised I was happy again. It's been a long time, weeks really, and happiness is foreign to me again. I didn't start crying in the middle of food, though that was my first impulse, and I rode out the rest of the day well.
I also started getting my grades back. I got a mark in math which was barely short of miraculous--- I must have done incredibly well on the exam despite the whole weird thing around that --and I'm doing well enough, though I'd love to get all the numbers in.
So I have my first eight courses and five certifications under my belt. My mental energy is definitely coming back, though I'm still losing words when I try to speak.
I'm also really very sick. This weekend I made the conscious decision to attend social events, albeit in a low-key way, because sitting at home being lonely would fix me less well than being low-key somewhere maybe colder and less comfortable but where there were friends. It was the right decision, but now I have to head in to work shortly and I'm really wishing this could be over.
I've spoken lately about how boring I feel: all I talk about is school, work, or that breakup thing. I'm going to inflict a tiny bit more school on you. Here are the courses I've finished:
-Applied mathematics for sustainable resource management
-Earth science
-Ecology I - Plants
-Field Safety I (this was ATV, WHMIS, worksafe, first aid, and first aid transportation endorsement certifications)
-Intro to geology
-Map and aerial photo interpretation
-Natural resource field survey ("surveying")
-Sustainable resource management I (the sustainable issues course)
-Technical communication for sustainable resource management I (the eng/comm distance course they couldn't fit into the timetable except by distance ed, where we wrote collections and rejection letters, etc)
Whew. Next up:
-Fire control (!)
-Environmental climatology (!)
-Ecology II - fish and wildlife
-Ecology III - ecosystem classifications of bc (I expect this to be the biogeoclimactic zone class)
-Intro to computer applications and GPS
-Intro to soils (!)
-Statistics I for sustainable resource management
-Sustainable resource management II
-Technical communication II for sustainable resource management
I start the term off with fire control (but not till Jan 31), climatology, comp & gps, statistics, and soils.
It will be interesting.
Yesterday I spent the day doing things that made me happy: I went for very good dim sum with some friends, including a couple I hadn't seen in a long time or didn't know very well; I snuggled and drank tea and chatted with people all day; the snuggling and chatting flowed into a group sushi event which was, again, very good. During dim sum, as we're all paying slightly more attention to the food than to each other but still discussing things, I realised I was happy again. It's been a long time, weeks really, and happiness is foreign to me again. I didn't start crying in the middle of food, though that was my first impulse, and I rode out the rest of the day well.
I also started getting my grades back. I got a mark in math which was barely short of miraculous--- I must have done incredibly well on the exam despite the whole weird thing around that --and I'm doing well enough, though I'd love to get all the numbers in.
So I have my first eight courses and five certifications under my belt. My mental energy is definitely coming back, though I'm still losing words when I try to speak.
I'm also really very sick. This weekend I made the conscious decision to attend social events, albeit in a low-key way, because sitting at home being lonely would fix me less well than being low-key somewhere maybe colder and less comfortable but where there were friends. It was the right decision, but now I have to head in to work shortly and I'm really wishing this could be over.
I've spoken lately about how boring I feel: all I talk about is school, work, or that breakup thing. I'm going to inflict a tiny bit more school on you. Here are the courses I've finished:
-Applied mathematics for sustainable resource management
-Earth science
-Ecology I - Plants
-Field Safety I (this was ATV, WHMIS, worksafe, first aid, and first aid transportation endorsement certifications)
-Intro to geology
-Map and aerial photo interpretation
-Natural resource field survey ("surveying")
-Sustainable resource management I (the sustainable issues course)
-Technical communication for sustainable resource management I (the eng/comm distance course they couldn't fit into the timetable except by distance ed, where we wrote collections and rejection letters, etc)
Whew. Next up:
-Fire control (!)
-Environmental climatology (!)
-Ecology II - fish and wildlife
-Ecology III - ecosystem classifications of bc (I expect this to be the biogeoclimactic zone class)
-Intro to computer applications and GPS
-Intro to soils (!)
-Statistics I for sustainable resource management
-Sustainable resource management II
-Technical communication II for sustainable resource management
I start the term off with fire control (but not till Jan 31), climatology, comp & gps, statistics, and soils.
It will be interesting.
