Bullet point post time, ahoy! Just felt like writing a wee bit, even if it isn’t particularly exciting. I’m not making you people read these things!
- 76% in the first class test in Maths! It wasn’t particularly difficult stuff, but still, please with myself for having done so well despite not having done higher maths.
- I hope there are some redeeming classes for my course in second year, because so far, my two favourite classes (Engineering Applications – the major practical class, and Engineering Materials – about the structure and attributes of materials) don’t continue into second year for my course. Gutted!
- Hurray for springtime. Boo for the fact it’s been getting cloudy the past few days, and I’m expecting it to start raining at any time. I hate the rain. Remind me why I love Scotland so much given it rains so much?
- Health stuff (I’d originally written “health crap”, but that suggests a lack of enthusiasm.)
- Cycling is much more enjoyable when it’s not bitterly cold. Still, it was nice having the canal to myself. There were always a few runners and other cyclists, but as the weather gets warmer, there are gonna be more and more people – s’gonnae be murder polis to get along the canal in summer!
- While I have my lower body covered, upper body exercise is much more difficult. Getting out on a bike is enjoyable, and because you’re travelling, you don’t get all de-motivated from a feeling of not getting anywhere. Working your upper body feels more difficult because it takes it out of you much quicker, and I tend to give in pretty quickly, and if I give in too early, the exercise does nothing, and if it does nothing, there’s no gain, and if there’s no gain, it takes it out of me just as quickly next time, and then I give in… and it’s a vicious cycle.
- A couple of my uni friends intend on going to the Uni gym on our big long breaks on Thursdays. That would be an excellent way to sort the above problem. But, I’m incredibly self conscious and don’t want to be the awkward skinny guy in the gym.
- Bananas are awesome, especially given they are one of the few fruits I can actually eat. That is all.
- While I’m still far from having a really healthy diet and being “fit”, I’m significantly better than I was last year, and I can feel the improvement. You really do feel crap if you have a bad diet and don’t exercise. I find that I feel better about myself these days, a bit more of a spring in my step. Oh jeez, I’m actually beginning to enjoy this trying to be healthy thing. How disgusting!
- I’m totally destroying anything I may have achieved the past couple of days by binging on Vimto sweets right now. Anyone want to get me some willpower for my Birthday?
- I need to find a good local barber. I’ve still not even looked around here for one, I just make detours to my old barbers (where I’ve been going since I was tiny) if I’m down the road seeing friends. I’m a bit of a creature of habit.
- I have discovered that I get all tongue tied and monosyllabic upon being served by a pretty lass in the supermarket. This is why I am no good at life.