Here We Go Again

Last night I was on Pinterest (I should have known better. This always leads to trouble) and I clicked on this pin that had something to do with Carl Jung. It ended up leading me to one of those personality type tests. I have always thought those things were kind of interesting, but they seem to have gotten exceptionally trendy lately, so I never bothered to do one. Anyway, last night I did and it turns out I'm an INTJ. I'm still reading about it, but it seems to be fairly accurate. The real point of this post though, is that now I'm tempted to try again to get my Psychology degree. I always find this shit fascinating and I can read about it forever. Plus, it turns out that Jung had the same personality type that I do. So perhaps I'm just built for it.

I know it's stupid to bounce back and forth so much about this, but I just love psychology and hate school. So what is one to do?

I know, Dean! I know! 

Alas

The last couple of days I've been looking back over some of my various lists of goals, in preparation for my end of the year posts. It turns out that I actually did okay this year, goal wise. I accomplished most of the things on my list for the year, a few things from my overall list, and a several other things that just feel like decent accomplishments. The problem is, it doesn't really seem to matter. No matter how many things I cross off, my life is still pretty much just pathetic. I think about all the things I've done and go "That's pretty good." Then I think about how fucking stupid my life still is and go "Yeah, but...."

Impetus

You know my Flaming Vegan post, well guess what? They put it on the homepage......and paid me for it! So I'm pretty excited about that. It's ridiculous how much more motivation I have to do things if I get any kind of incentive whether monetary, emotional, social, whatever. It's not like I'm going to make a living, or even enough to really make much of a difference at all, writing for The Flaming Vegan. It's just a feeling of appreciation. I mean, if they're willing to give me money, they must like what I have to say. So yeah, I think I might actually stick with it. I even started working on my next post for them today.

 

A Good Decision

I got my new workout DVD yesterday and tried it out this morning. I think I'm really going to like it. It's fairly intense, but enjoyable enough that I didn't feel like I had to suffer through it. Overall, I am quite pleased with my choice. I'm hoping I'll be able to find other Capoeira workouts later on, because I feel like most of what this one covers should be fairly easy to master, and, now that I've watched some videos on it, I really want to learn the more complicated stuff.

I don't know that I'll ever get to the point where I can do this kind of shit, but I'm going to try!

P.S. On a semi-related note, I have now gotten to the point where I can do ten pull-ups, both overhand and underhand. I have been able to do ten underhand ones for a while, but the overhand ones are a bit harder. I finally got it though! Next step- salmon ladder. 

Good Class

I think last night was the most productive class I've had yet. This is partly due to the fact that I was there until almost 10:00 (class is supposed to be over at 8:30). The other girl was there last night and she left shortly after class was supposed to be over, then the instructor and I kept working for over an hour after that.

Anyway, at the beginning of class the other girl and I worked on clinch. This was pretty cool because I had only ever done it against my instructor, so I really had no idea how good I was at it, and it turns out that I'm apparently pretty decent. I think she was actually getting a little pissed because she couldn't get away from me. After that we worked on defending/blocking kicks. I wasn't quite as good at that, but I think I was getting better by the end...I think.


After she left, the instructor and I worked on throwing and defending body kicks, and then kind of spared with it a little. He also taught me this nifty little trick which basically seems like a guaranteed way to knock someone on their ass. Of course this means that I got knocked on my ass several times, before I got it. Also, I'm not sure how exactly it happened, but at some point I got kicked in the throat. It was kind of hilarious actually because it barely even touched me, and it was obviously a complete accident, but for a second I think he thought he seriously hurt me because he jumped back and his eyes got really big until I started laughing. So yeah, pretty good class.

Also, the other girl had been referring to me as "Vegan" but has now started calling me "Fairy". I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it's slightly derogatory, so perhaps next time I will blast her my fairy light. 

P.S. My post is up at The Flaming Vegan.

The Prodigal Daughter Returns

I just wrote my first post for The Flaming Vegan in over two years. As some of you may know, I used to write for them all the time, but I stopped. I've been meaning to start again for a long time, and today I finally just did it. Partly because I looked back at my list of goals for the year and found that there were some, including writing for The Flaming Vegan, which I had totally forgotten about. Anyway, I'm going to try to start writing for them on a regular basis again. Apparently the post have to be moderated, so I'll let you guys know when this one is up.  

Funny coincidence, this ^ is the picture I used for my post at The Flaming Vegan (which had a different title). Then I was looking for images related to the prodigal son, and apparently there was something in the story about pigs.....who knew?

Well Now I'm Going to Have to Actually Do Shit

It turns out that next week is the "mid-season finale" of both Supernatural and Arrow. Since, for the most part, these two shows are the things I look forward to most in my weeks, I am going to have to start doing more real-world things to take up the slack. The good news is that we should be putting the finishing touches on my forge this weekend. If that works out, it should give me something pretty interesting to do. What would be really nice is if I could actually have enough of a life that I could stop needing to live vicariously through fictional characters, but I doubt that's likely to ever happen.

Also, it does look like they should be pretty good episodes. Supernatural looks like it's probably going to be fucking heartbreaking (which, for some reason, I consider to be a good thing), and apparently Oliver is going to have a snowy, shirtless, sword fight. So at least they're giving us something good to end on.