Math & Upcoming race don’t mix

I have a test tomorrow morning and my studying has not gone as well as I had hoped. I’m good with 2 of the three topics but I just cannot wrap my head about all this goddamn geometry!!! What the hell!? Why do shapes and volumes of these mystical shapes even matter to me? Honestly!? I’m just so bad at visualizing all of this. This piled on top of the anticipation of my race this weekend is just not mixing very well. AND to add to that work is stressing me out. I really really really really need a summer vacation. A REAL one. I’m so tired of constantly be ON. This weekend is going to be lovely being able to tune out and forget about everything. But come next week it’s back to everything. My summer course ends mid-July and I’m going to embrace that month and a half of vacation by doing pretty much nothing but whatever I really want to be doing: gardening, training, coaching, writing, reading, being lazy, cooking. Stress reduction at maximum!!!! That’s the plan! 

I’m wide awake right now when I should be sleeping to absorb what little information I can for tomorrow’s test. GAH. I just hope I can redeem myself from what will be an inevitable failure tomorrow. I checked out what the final looks like and it seems this geometry business is only a small part of the exam. Thank goodness. I really hate shapes. They could at least let us have 3D models or something. I can’t draw for my life which doesn’t help me figure anything out. It’s a piss off because my notes are so beautiful and organized and when we started this blasted geometry section everything is a mess. I hate it. I was swearing and erasing the whole intro class. I was not happy. Give me limits, integrals, derivatives, that shit I can work with. But really!? SHAPES!? I feel like I’m the kid in kindergarten who keeps trying to put the square in the triangular hole. 

Math is fun

I’m probably taking another rest day from running today because last week’s post-marathon training week was kind of disastrous. I was drained physically and mentally and I knew that if things continued I would end of losing any excitement I had for my goal race.

But just because I’m taking another day off doesn’t mean I’m slacking off. My eating is being kept in check. Down to my lowest weight thus far since I started trackingandmy body fat % is steadily dropping. I’m going to do a mini core workout tonight while I watch America’s Got Talent (that shit is inspiring yo).

I’m having a ball with summer school. Who knew that somewhere deep inside I just effing loved math? Cal II is super duper fun. Of course, as mentioned in an earlier post, it helps to have a cute teacher. But NO that’s not why I’m enjoying it. Geez. Although I went through a few emotions today when he asked me to use my notebook to copy the answer of a problem down, probably because my notes are freaking awesome and then he asked my name.

You want my notebook?

My name?



To the ass next to me who is repeating the course and thinks he’s king-shit for knowing formulas but is not able to derive them and got told off by the prof:

Calculus by candlelight. How romantic. Just so you know…square root negative one <3 math Who would have thought huh? I cursed Calculus years ago and vowed never to look at math again. Kind of like my relationship with running. I hated it. I remember the gym tests where we had to run around the track. The curse words would fly out of my mouth, directed at the awful sport of running. Now I can’t imagine not doing it. I went from searing hatred to so much love for Calculus and running. What a love story.
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Calculus by candlelight. How romantic. Just so you know…square root negative one <3 math Who would have thought huh? I cursed Calculus years ago and vowed never to look at math again. Kind of like my relationship with running. I hated it. I remember the gym tests where we had to run around the track. The curse words would fly out of my mouth, directed at the awful sport of running. Now I can’t imagine not doing it. I went from searing hatred to so much love for Calculus and running. What a love story.

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