Knees. *Edit: WOW.

Herein begins yet another year of classes for yours truly. Ugh.

I shouldn’t complain- this semester is going to be a much nicer semester than those in the past. Most days I have class from 9:55-5, so at least I don’t have to be up at the crack of dawn.

My knees have been very achey lately. They are making me so mad! All I want is to be able to run. I don’t push myself to the point of collapsing, I don’t sprint, I wear good quality shoes and the pair of $50 insoles that my doctor recommended when I told her of my problem… none of it is really working. Sometimes I jog right through the pain… a mile and a half in it does fade away. I realize that running when they’re achey probably isn’t the smartest of things to do, but whatever. I’m doing it with the idea that running is strengthening my legs, and that strengthening my legs will make my knees better.

I have been giving myself adequate breaks inbetween runs (I skip a day if they hurt badly or go on the elliptical instead… but I really don’t like the elliptical).

Dave and I played Tennis on Monday with his friend BK and BK’s girlfriend Michelle. It was a lot of fun! I’d never played before so I wasn’t very great, but I definitely improved by the end of the game. Dave and I definitely plan on doing that again! It was a great work-out and it didn’t even feel like a workout! I even ran a mile after coming home.

Anyway, I’m out. I have to get in the shower so that I can get to class! Wooo.

*Edit: Wow. Just… wow.

I’m one of those people who like to ignore stressful situations. I realize that it’s not necessarily the right thing to do, but it helps me for whatever reason. If I’m aware that something stressful is going to happen then I pretend like it’s not, and then when it happens I can attempt to accept it without having allowed myself to get worked up about it.

I did that with classes. I always hate the start of the semester. So for the last month I’ve totally ignored that it was about to happen. I didn’t look up the location of my classes, I didn’t buy my books, I didn’t buy school supplies, I didn’t do anything that most other people do when preparing to start another year of school.

I only finally looked at my schedule last night before I went to bed (the schedule that myself and my advisor made last April) to check to see which classes I was to have today and which buildings they were to be in. I checked the time of my first class so as not to make myself late. I set my alarm and went to bed.

I got up early to check my schedule again (because I tend to be a little OCD and wanted to make SURE that I was going into the right class on the right day).  I checked my "Week at a Glance" which accounts for days off and saw that the first two parts of the calander were blank. This made sense to me because we wouldn’t have class on Sunday and Monday was Labor Day. But then I looked a little closer and noticed THREE of the spots were blank. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The class that I THOUGHT was to start today wasn’t cued up to be my first class of the semester. Chemistry was. And from what I’d remembered, Chemistry wasn’t set to start until Wednesday.

I didn’t think much of it. I went and worked out, fully believing that today was in fact Wednesday. I mean, classes are supposed to start the day after labor day, right? They always do! So today must be Wednesday. Whatever. Okay. So now, fully believing tha today is Wednesday, I came to the realization that I didn’t have to be to class until 11, not 10.

"Score!" I thought to myself, "I can hang out and watch the news for a little while before I have to get ready! I can write a mini entry on OD!"

So that’s what I did. I turned on the news and I wrote the entry above. Something small to pass the time. But then juuuust before I was to log off I ran my mouse over the time on the bottom right corner of my screen. A box popped up that read, "Tuesday, September 8, 2009"

Cue PANIC.

"It’s 9:15! It’s not Wednesday, it’s Tuesday! Oh my god I’m so stupid! Since when is Labor Day on a Tuesday, Riely? Ugh, I’m going to be late! I’m supposed to be at class at 10 after all! I’m supposed to be leaving and I haven’t even showered yet!"

… "but why does my Week at a Glance say that my first class of the semester is to be Chemistry? Fuck it, I’m already going to be late. I’m getting to the bottom of this."

So I looked up the academic calender… which informed me that classes don’t actually start today, they start tomorrow. Tomorrow, on September 9th.

That’s what I get, I guess.