Monday, January 23, 2006
Am nächste Montag werde ich "max out" auf[?] die "bench press". Today the instructor had people (including mich) who had never bench-pressed go through the motions. I could barely lift the bar for five reps. The instructor added five-pound weights during my second set, and I lifted those thrice. He reduced this amount to two and-a-half pounds at either end of the bar, which I barely managed to raise and lower to my chest five times. I naturally would like to improve this week, but I would admittedly feel a bit odd asking one of the room supervisors to spot me... for just the bar. But oh, well. C'est la vie.
I excitedly discovered the HTML code for Greek characters. Now I need only catch up on my Greek homework and learn to recognize verbal and participial endings, so that I might actually understand what I am reading...
I just absent-mindedly picked the Planter's wart on my index finger (a few months ago I bought acidic medication for it, but the goop dried up and was ineffective, wasting seventeen dollars of my laboriously-earned wages). My oozing blood has formed a nice clown nose bubble, which I have artfully avoided splashing over the keyboard.
Ich muss jetzt zur griechische Kurs spazieren. Aber ich hat die Hausaufgaben nicht gemacht... und ich muss für deutsche Kurs lesen... Schade... ich weiß! Ich werde nicht nach griechische Kurs gehen. Dr. Holland wurde noch mich lieben. Dann kann ich für deutsch studieren, danach bevor der Arbeit (um achtzehn Uhr) ich für griechisch studieren kann. Ja. Das ist sehr gut (aber ich denke, daß meine deutsch nicht so gut ist...).
I am to meet in a few moments the girl whose apartment room I sub-leased during December. She will return my deposit, which I shall then redeposit in my account sometime tomorrow, either before or after I make a visit to the doctor about my ear infection and possible allergic reaction to the poisonous Lubbock environment.
Now that I am on a roll (or rather, a downward spiral), I wonder if I might not skip out of meine deutsche Kurs as well, for it is in the exact building as the Greek, Dr. Holland will see me sitting outside the room (he teaches Latin in one adjacent to mine), and, though Der Grair Bear might quiz the class today, I have already attended Stammtisch (last Friday) and may receive extra credit, thus covering the quiz. This arrangement, in fact, might serve very well, for I could simply walk to the doctor's office after I meet with Jaki (the aforementioned subject of the preceding paragraph). Ja...
Skipping class, with contrived reason, always makes me feel better.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 8:40 AM]