Why didn’t I go to bed 2 hours ago?
| April 17, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I am way more exhausted than I wanted to be 48 hours before my first attempt at a 50k, but I’m going to make this short and sweet and get to bed.
My bags are packed and the lighting was too bad for a picture, but I am sure you needed to share in the excitement of having BOTH bags packed that I drew you this.
One for the finish (shower stuff!) and another sweat bag that they will transport from the start to the finish for me so I can wear warm cheap clothes over scanty running outfit at 5am and perhaps have a chance of seeing those clothes again.
There was a million things to do today, but got the important stuff done – reserved a hotel near the race so that I don’t have to start Saturday at 2am and then run 31 miles, personalized my year book that the historians of my class of 2015 put together commemorating 3 non-clinical years of vet school (wasted my entire lunch hour getting it just right), and fed at my barn – with extra scratches and mashes for 2 particular arab ponies.
Lastly, I submitted the moster project I’ve been working on – my personal development plan.
Now, the “personal development plan” was a useful exercise.
Especially after renaming it (was somehow assigned as a “personal business plan” which made no sense) and making a few…err…”adjustments”. Such as the fact that picture on the cover is NOT a professional headshot as requested.
Because I’m really bad at playing reindeer games. Two and half years seems to be my limit.
If I’m going to spend a SIGNIFICANT amount of time creating a document for a pass fail class that has nothing to do with money, funding, or actual job opportunities, then for goodness sakes I may as well make it useful.
It’s a calculated risk of course, having been given a template, but I’ve met the intent of the assignment which according to the professor was to compile a document “useful to us”. And if nothing else my choices have validated my SWOT analysis included – independent and self motivated feature prominently.
By being tired and not in bed now, you’re giving yourself a better chance of being tired enough to sleep well(ish) tomorrow night and being refreshed to run strong 🙂 Good luck
Good to-do list destruction and happy sleeping and running to come! I guess professor mileage may vary, but “slightly modify the assignment to better-suit my needs and unapologetically turn in kick-ass end product” has not failed me yet!
I love that your “official head shot” is a ride photo. If they can’t allow for some creativity that’s a stupid project.
And I know your drawing is of a duffel bag, but at first glance I imagined a big 1980s boom box. Taking tunes on the trail, old-school style. Yeah, I’m old enough to have loved my un-politically correct “ghetto blaster.”
Good luck, 50k on foot, and on purpose (not because a horse left you in the forest for example), awesome!
I actually have an old style boombox on my counter and had the same thought as I was drawing it! Finally gave up and wondered if anyone would notice 🙂
I took the same kind of creative license for my pass/fail “capstone” class in grad school: I included a story, folktale, myth or riddle at the end of each section, with thematic commentary relating to the content of the section. (I also included “wise sayings” and quotes from the utterly imaginary poet Ron Silvern… and not one person questioned it!)
Bags packed, off you go!
Quotes! I should have put ny fav quotes in each section! !!!! Ah well. On the next update.
I may have been emboldend by some more minor assignments that i took creative license with. My “write a one page summary of a food animal derm disease in lieu of a final” got turned into a one page ringworm fact sheet ill be able to give to ffa and 4h exhibitors. Im just so done with completing assifnments just for rhe grade. They need to be useful some how.