Class is in Session

My fortune cookie today said: “Action with a brain. Today you should proceed with caution.”

Action with a brain. I have no idea what that means.

On Tuesday, I left work a little early to squeeze in some speedwork before leaving for the baseball game. I was supposed to do 12×60-60, which is 24 total minutes. Well, despite knowing that I needed 12×60-60, I kept mentally calculating only 12 total minutes. That meant I’d have a solid 10 minutes for warmup and another 10 minutes for cooldown before having to head home to shower and meet Jen to drive to the ballpark.

It wasn’t until I started my warmup that I finally realized my mental math mistake. I had to skimp on my warmup and cooldown to fit the workout in, but it was so hot outside already that I decided it would be ok. I did 5 minutes warmup and 5 minutes cooldown, and I didn’t stop sweating for the rest of the night. It was one tough workout, but I made it. Later, I looked at the schedule again and it turns out I was actually only scheduled for 8×60-60.

Oh well.

I didn’t run on Wednesday night since it was the first evening of fall classes at UHCL. I am taking a class called Technical Foundations of Digital Media. It is one of the core classes for the school’s new graduate program in Digital Media Studies. When my classes counted toward a potential humanities degree, I wasn’t as interested in going all the way to earning a degree. I just wasn’t interested in taking the three generic English classes required for a M.A. in Humanities. With the new Digital Media Studies program, however, I am much more interested in going through with everything I need to earn another Masters degree. This class will be my fifth at UHCL, leaving me with 15 hours at the end of this semester. That’s almost halfway to a degree already.

Anyway. When the professor walked in on Wednesday and began going over the syllabus, I was immediately worried. There are tons of pop quizzes, and he asked everyone for their level of expertise, and spent a long time carefully explaining how the class was to be run. His manner conveyed that the class would be far too simplistic to me. The textbook (which I’d picked up before class) also looked very simple. I was worrying and getting carried away with myself when the professor finally finished the syllabus and started class. And class was actually good! It was interesting, and not too simple, and he had good lecturing style. He’s obviously a stickler for grading and attendance and structure, but I think the class will be interesting. It is the first class I’ve taken at UHCL that’s a lecture class (and not in the computer lab).

Hooray for Friday.