Hey Gamespot! Haven't blogged in a week or two, did you miss me? :P
School started back up last week and honestly I was not ready. Er, I guess the better way to say that was I did not FEEL like going back. Then again, who does? Two hours seeing friends and teachers and then I'm just thinking "Yeah ok, can I go home now?"
This week was exam week for us. Half days Tues-Fri, with two exams per day, if the respective cl@ss has one. Seeing as APMEH happened right before we went on break, I only had four exams. Geometry, English, Spanish, and Chemistry. Geo and Eng were both on Tuesday. Geo was a BREEZE, felt almost too easy. I double checked all my work and caught one or two mistakes, but most of the exam was conceptual not computational so there wasn't much room for error. Turned it in with plenty of time left and popped in the iPod while drawing a G36C in my boredom.
Eng was next and the longest exam of the four. There was one essay and one literary analysis about a poem, and of course matching, multiple choice, and short answer. It was fairly easy, english has never been very hard for me, but I'm sure I made some mistakes here and there, and the essays are a big toss up when it comes to how much my teacher likes 'em. We'll see though, I'm pretty confident.
Yesterday was just Spanish, and that was another uncomfortably easy exam. I finished and double checked every answer and am extremely confident in my grade. Didn't even have the speaking section like he told us we would. 'Nother time to pop in the iPod for...50 minutes...o_O
Today was chem, and that was meh. I feel like I did alright, but not 100 percent material at all. No less than a B, so I'll be happy with my grade. Not too bad.
On that note, I got back my APMEH exam. 90!!!!! I was overjoyed. I hadn't anticipated such a good grade. Definitely happy with that.
That's school as of late. Gaming's been AWESOME since I finally was allowed to move the 360 onto the 52inch HD. It's glorious. I had some fun in Ace Combat 6, which looks BEAUTIFUL, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, which looks very very good, and Halo 3, which looks very awesome too, and it's always great playing it in widescreen :D I took a load of screenshots in widescreen, and I'm not done yet, but you can see what I've got here. Hm. Link isn't working. Here's the URL.
http://haloscreenshots.net/gallery/sacksy+boy/
Other than that, haven't had too much quality time with it for gaming, but I have been watching some good ol' TV, most notable is 24 :D I watched the first 2 of the 4 that have aired so far, and it's wonderful. Other than that, I watched three hour long episodes of a special on BUD/s, the first phase and most famous of SEAL training. The next or last 3 segments tape late tonight, so I'll have some more to watch over the weekend, along with the second two 24s :) It's sweet. Here I am reading all this crap about SEAL training but I haven't really seen any of it in length, but I've now seen three hours and it's NUTS. My first thought was "...How am I even gonna last a day of this?" By the end, though, I was stoked, and I am so psyched for that total hell.
That's...yeah ok that's sort of weird, I know :P
"Speaking of that," says you, "how's the training thing going?"
Pretty good. I'm doing 100 push ups, 200 sit ups, 10-15 chin ups of three different s-tyles each, 50 leg lifts, and 4 minutes of...I don't know the name of it. Lay on your back and hold your ankles six inches off the ground. That one. I do one minute of those at a time, though, I'm not good enough to hold that for four minutes ;) However, back to what I was saying, I've consolidated all of those excersises into just 2 stints in a day. When I started I did all of that over the course of the day in five segments, then I brought it down to three with a short fourth one to finish off the tail end, and now I'm down to only two separate sessions a day. My goal is to be able to do all of that in one sitting. Once I can do that, I'll start increasing the amounts of everything I'm doing. Making good progress on that.
Running is the other big thing I've been working on. At first I could BARELY run a mile without stopping on my treadmill, and even when I did the whole thing without stopping it was still like a ten minute mile. I was not only furious with my awful performance, but was utterly puzzled as to why it was so bad. Convinced me and treadmills just didn't roll together, we parted our separate ways and I started running a route outside each night than runs me 1.3 or so miles. I could do that no sweat, which confused me even more. At any rate, after 2 or 3 months of this, I've worked my route up to at least 2.5 miles, if not a little more, but I haven't done anything to really measure it out yet. The route was my initial goal though, so I'll increase the length of my route soon. (Turns out? The treadmill has been stuck on incline the entire time; I tried adjusting it but nothing worked so I figured the switch didn't work anymore. Nope. Mom had the same puzzlment I did with her walking, and she figured out it was stuck on incline and managed to change it. Go figure, right?)
Anyways, that's why my fingers were thawing out. Today...I don't even know how cold it is. But it's the coldest it's been in Maryland this year, er at least the coldest I've felt running all year. Windy too. Holy crap it was windy. But yeah, that's that.
Other than that, no news from the front. I guess that does it for me...
Until next time, I've been an irmeleeman5995 with fingers thawed out, and that's a mouthful to say!