The grades are in
May. 6th, 2011 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessIt's all over but the crying. I have one more meeting and graduation tomorrow then I'm off til July. gah wish I didn't have to teach in the summer. I need to figure out how to get into summer research (which naturally doesn't pay I need money...)
I'm a little disappointed I wasn't there to get my 5 year service pin. USUALLY they hand them out at the last all-campus meeting but they had a pizza party this time. Our new email system is faulty. I didn't get the notice. Sigh. The pin was in my inbox when I got to school to put in the grades. oh well.
that was my exciting day. put in grades. deal with students outside my office door. put in grades. students again. more grades. whimpers, goes home later than I would have if I had been teaching...
I did try to do my first non-guided mediation. For the last 9 months or so I've been taking advantage of the free guided meditations from the Chopra center when they do their challenges (though now they won't let you download them, just charge you for that privledge later). Anyhow, I have about 30 or more downloaded from last year and I've been using them.
I finally felt a little freer to move away from them and try my mantra meditation with some of the music designed for that. Well that's what I SHOULD have thought. No I decide to leap head first into the chakra meditation book where you have to concentrate on yantras. I failed to even manage it for as long as I usually do in a guided meditation. I think i WILL back off, move slower and just try the mantra meditations before taking a step up into opening chakras and concentrating on yantras to embed them in my mind.
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trekwriter (and a tinfoil hat too. THANK YOU)
Yeah this is NOT me. I might like Labs but this is so not my personality.
blurry. I THINK the batteries are going dead. I should investigate that now before I go to that con
I'm a little disappointed I wasn't there to get my 5 year service pin. USUALLY they hand them out at the last all-campus meeting but they had a pizza party this time. Our new email system is faulty. I didn't get the notice. Sigh. The pin was in my inbox when I got to school to put in the grades. oh well.
that was my exciting day. put in grades. deal with students outside my office door. put in grades. students again. more grades. whimpers, goes home later than I would have if I had been teaching...
I did try to do my first non-guided mediation. For the last 9 months or so I've been taking advantage of the free guided meditations from the Chopra center when they do their challenges (though now they won't let you download them, just charge you for that privledge later). Anyhow, I have about 30 or more downloaded from last year and I've been using them.
I finally felt a little freer to move away from them and try my mantra meditation with some of the music designed for that. Well that's what I SHOULD have thought. No I decide to leap head first into the chakra meditation book where you have to concentrate on yantras. I failed to even manage it for as long as I usually do in a guided meditation. I think i WILL back off, move slower and just try the mantra meditations before taking a step up into opening chakras and concentrating on yantras to embed them in my mind.
got this from
trekwriter (and a tinfoil hat too. THANK YOU)You Are Family Focused |
 You are a fun-loving and social person. Your friends and family are everything to you. You tend to have a pretty active lifestyle. You enjoy being on the go. You are easygoing and low maintenance. You don't like drama of any sort. You have a positive perspective on life. You are an optimist, and you don't judge people. |
Yeah this is NOT me. I might like Labs but this is so not my personality.
blurry. I THINK the batteries are going dead. I should investigate that now before I go to that con
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Date: 2011-05-07 02:45 am (UTC)I haven't tried any meditation since Cassadaga.
Is it me, or does your pin look like a band award?
And why is a Boston Terrier, which isn't really a terrier, in the photo for terriers?
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Date: 2011-05-08 01:27 am (UTC)band pin...yeah, I was thinking sorority pin
and no i don't like drama
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:04 am (UTC)I haven't seen a sorority pin, so I wouldn't know.
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Date: 2011-05-07 04:18 am (UTC)Whose pelt is the pin on?
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Date: 2011-05-07 04:38 am (UTC)The cats would totally freak whenI begin to levitate
that is Kanda's hide. he's very placid about lying there while you put stuff on him
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Date: 2011-05-08 05:00 am (UTC)Except, you know. For that time thing.
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Date: 2011-05-07 06:13 pm (UTC)My second-favorite breed of dog is a Corgi, which isn't on the list. :-(
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Date: 2011-05-07 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-07 08:21 pm (UTC)Yeah to school being done with!
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Date: 2011-05-08 01:25 am (UTC)yay to it being done