rituals

Ever wake up in the morning and not remembering what your rituals are for that day of the week? It was like that for me this morning. It's been happening more the last few weeks. I'm not sure why. I'm thinking it's because I'm changing some behaviors and it puts everything out of whack.

My music library has been messed up for a time. I finally went ahead and deleted off empty entries and useless play lists yesterday. I'm going to have to leave my external hard drives on if I want to keep all of that organization in check. Which also means I need to get myself a hard copy of all of my music sometime. That is a whole lot of blank DVDs I need. On that same note I should back up all of those TV shows I have on the other drive also. I also plan to throw a 3rd drive in there to store pictures and documents. Yeah. I have a lot of information that I can move around. I need to do a bit of cable management on my desk. It's getting pretty messy with all those connections on there. I have a few open ports on the back of my rig, but I think a second hub is needed. So one of them is for just external hard drives and the other for random connections. I think that would probably work.

I left my rig on last night to reload my iPod. It's now nicely synced. I also reset the play count on all the songs. I had to remake a couple of play lists and deleted a few. It's like I'm trying to work from a clean slate here. I woke up at 4 this morning to turn off my rig. Maybe that's why I feel so tired. I'm working on building up my 25 most played song list again. Starting fresh. I notice how I usually have a single song I love and would play it over and over. That song usually has a bit of special meaning to me at the time. I don't have anything like that right now. It feels strange to not have a song. I haven't really discovered any new music I like lately. I end up listening to the same things I usually do. It's been months since I found any particular song I can't stop listening to.

The yummy indian food I had yesterday finally hit me after 18 hours. It's great when I'm trying to take a quiz. Enough said.

These couple of weeks are going to be pretty light for me on the school front. I'm somewhere between the second and third set of midterms. Finals will follow pretty closely after that. I have an appointment at 3:30 today with an adviser. After that I should know exactly how the rest of school is going to look like. Hopefully. I know I should have done it like two months ago. But hey, better late then never.

I ran a little faster yesterday. I suppose I should work on that. My goal is to run as far as I can in 40 minutes, with a minimum of 3 miles. I need to build on my endurance a bit too. Slowing down my pace a little tiny bit should help. If I can jog the entire 40 minutes it would be great. At the same time I am going to use another treadmill at the gym. The one I was on yesterday kept stopping, saying no runner detected. That pissed me off. I hate being stopped so abruptly. I'm going to keep up on the running. Crunches and leg lifts are not a problem, but I'm thinking about taking off ISO from my routine. I don't know, I think I'll leave it in for another couple of weeks and see where I go from there. I'm going to make good about the whole yoga thing. There's a class at 10 tomorrow. I'll be in that. I need to start somewhere. I figure after I learn the basics from the class I can start doing it at home. I need to build flexibility and strength. I just need to fit my run into my schedule somewhere. Starting next week there is going to be 6 am yoga classes on Monday and Wednesday. I like that idea. It actually fits right into my schedule right through summer. My class (assuming I get to add into it after today) on Monday/Wednesday starts at 8. So yoga at 6 for an hour, get home, shower, go to class. Pretty good. If I can get up that is. I need some motivation. I already have a pretty good motivator in mine. I just need to keep to it.

That's all I have for now I think.