Sitting Is A Form Of Peace These Days
I just sat down, finally. It feels like it has been two days since I’ve sat down in a chair and just taken a coupe of breaths and relaxed. Although, right now I could do with out the “rockingness” of this particular chair that I’ve chosen in the library. It will just have to do though, because there is now way I’m getting up to find another chair at another spot in the library. My spot is, as Barney would put it, awesome. (If you don’t watch How I Met Your Mother, sorry you won’t get that quote.) I have a whole table to myself, a window adjacent me to the right where I can see cars passing on the road, students going to class and the bright blue sky. This is just perfect for the moment. Let me express in detail what busyness I’ve been up to the past thirty-six or so hours, then my love for this quiet peace in the library may make better sense to you…
Since I’ve been employed at the biology department, my Mondays and Wednesdays are rather crappy. My schedule is as follows: 8AM-9AM Wake up, get ready, eat breakfast. 9AM-10AM Calculus. 10AM-12PM Work at the Life Sciences building. 12PM-1PM History. 1PM-2PM Lunch, grab things for Trig. 2PM-3:30PM Trigonometry for Calculus. 3:30PM-4PM Drive to the coliseum. Get dressed for training in the locker room, loosen my right foot in the hot whirlpool, go out to the practice fields behind the game field for training. 4PM-5:30/6:00PM Training.
This is my exact schedule for every Monday and Wednesday, but on just Wednesdays I also go eat dinner at the Wesley house at 6PM, and on this Wednesday in particular, I had a SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory Committee) meeting at 6:30.
Basically, I’m really busy, and the transition between Wednesday and Thursday is just not good at all because I have Chemistry Lab at 9:30 on Thursday mornings and that lasts for over two hours.
I do realize that a couple of weeks ago I posted about not complaining about life, but rather just accepting the busyness of life as an opportunity to grow. But hold your horses, don’t take this post as contradictory to what I’ve previously expressed because I’M not finished yet! My point is coming up, be patient!
Through all of the hustle and bustle of being a student athlete and wanting to be involved in extracurricular groups and activities, I’ve realized I wouldn’t want it any other way. If this it what it takes, then this is what I have to do! You know that cliche that one famous dude said about life being easy? “Life aint’ easy, it’s just as plain and simple as that!” No? You’ve never heard that? That’s because no one has ever said it! Yea, that was a lame lack-of an analogy, if you will. I’ll admit that. But hey, it helped get my point across right? Exactly. And that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury of life, is why you must accept life’s challenges and suck it up!
So in the essence of everything buzzing around me, I get to come to the library this afternoon and escape it all, for the most part. I’ve laid out before me all that needs to be done (see pic below, duh). I try not to think of it as work, but as knowledge instead. Although it seems like a lot, I have my chair, my window and my headphones to accompany me. That’s why Sitting Is A Form of Peace, specifically for me this afternoon, as after I leave here around four to go to weight training, there’s going to be nothing but busyness for me as I head to Virginia tomorrow morning for a long weekend at the CASE Apple Convention.
Weight lifting time at 5 and then sociology at 6:30. I have to pack for my trip tonight, do some much-needed laundry. Hopefully after that I’ll get some relaxation time on my bed and watch last night’s LOST that I had to miss.
Catch ya in the virgin state sometime this weekend.
