solarbird | another personal update, but there is also a flower

Not as tired as last weekend, but still not exactly high-energy. I think the lousy food situation at the school is not helping anything, but even aside from that, core physical systems are not yet nominal. I'm eating way more than I traditionally would but am not gaining weight, which is fine - one might even say tasty, were the lunch options at Shoreline better - but regardless, it's strange. Soft drinks - at least, without a 50/50 mix with something else like orange juice - are still off the billet. Sleep is both more needed and, well, strange in ways that are difficult to describe, and I do not have normal sleeping rhythms, as is evidenced by this morning's 6AM internal wake-up call. And so on.

Still very nervous about classes. I did not feel at all confident in class participation in either Biology or Japanese, and I feel both are starting to pick up speed a bit. (Well, in Bio, it's less "picking up speed" and more "getting out of chemistry that I already know and into actual biology.") Hopefully that A on that Japanese quiz won't be my first and last 100% on a language quiz ever; and hopefully Biology won't all be like this chapter, which mostly seems to consist of data acquisition, much of which looks to me like it expects to be memorised. So I'm very much worried about that.

In sillier news, what happens when you have a bunch of old dead hard drive platters and a similarly-old drive housing that still spins up? Pretty much this. G'wan, clickie. It's worksafe.

Thursday's miles: 2.6
Friday's miles: 3.9
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1358.4
Miles out of Rivendell: 893.4
Miles out of Lothlórien: 438.4
Miles past Rauros Falls: 30.5
Miles to Isengard: 440.4