Friday---squared???

Yesterday was a holiday and we had the day off, so I have to question if this will be like Friday squared? Or if that is even possible! I don't know, I guess I'll find out today once I go back to work.

I had a rather pleasant run this morning. Yesterday I struggled through it for some reason, I'm thinking because it was supposed to be a day off and I got up late to run. Maybe that's what it was. No biggie, though, because today was a fantastic run. My first leg up the hill was a little tough, but after that, it all just seemed to smooth out for some reason. Maybe I'm finally starting to get my running legs back. I used to run all the time when I was in college and when I did my first 6 months here in RI for SWOS. Well, we all know how things like that go ;) So, I'm getting back into the swing of it again. Who knows, by the time I go back to VA, I might be ready to run some 5K's. Greg will be happy with that! Maybe he and I can run some together. We'll see. The pushups went really well this morning, too. The crunches, well, those never go very well--mostly because they are my least favorite exercise in the world. But I do them. I guess the only reason I'm writing about working out today was because it felt good this morning instead of feeling like a chore like it usually does. Maybe it's the attitude shift I'm going through, I just don't know.

I went into class and studied for about an hour last night. I couldn't take anymore past that, it was starting to weigh down on me. So I left. I think I'll probably go in some this weekend and study, I don't know, in the morning, maybe in the early afternoon, I'll have to see how I feel before I make that final determination. There is so much information to cram into my head that I have to go in to get it all there. Unlike college, you're not learning this stuff in class. They are presenting the information to you too quickly for that. For example, we can have someone come in and talk about a topic for 1-2 hours (giving us enormous amounts of information), then we go on a 10 minute break, and the next instructor comes in and does the same thing. This happens all day, so we don't really get a chance to try to learn the material. So, we have to come in after hours and get it into our heads. I'm beginning to get out of the mindset that it's just more work they're heaping onto us, and into the mindset that it is a part of my job--it is, after all--more of that attitude shift?! These are things we are going to have to know when we get to the fleet as TAO's, so I'm going to learn it. I don't particularly like the format they are giving it to us in, because it encourages rote memorization instead of actual learning, but that's what I have to work with, so I'm going to make the best of it. Hopefully I can get it to sink into my brain enough that when we actually go into the scenarios it will be there for my access and use. I'll let you know more about that when I get there!

Anyway, I'm going to cut this short and head off to school. I have a few errands I want to take care of. Hope everyone has a blessed day!