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And my new catchphrase: "I have no time!" or, because I'm in Spanish 211 and have to speak in Spanish, "¡No tengo tiempo!" And so I have to make sure less is more. Less time to exercise, but more intensity during the workouts. Something I can sustain over a semester of burgeoning homework. A routine, so I don't have to think about it. And Damm, because he knows me well, promised that I'd be able to get to 2 classes at my gym per week (muchos puntos for that one:). So I've chosen Spinning on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Entonces (so then), aquí es mi horario (here is my schedule): Monday: Spinning Tuesday: 2 mile run, ab workout, 100 pushup program and 200 squat program Wednesday: Spinning Thursday: 2 mile run, ab workout, 100 pushup program and 200 squat program Friday: Off-gaming night for Damm Saturday: An INSANITY workout of my choice Sunday: 2 mile run, ab workout, 100 pushup program and 200 squat program That looks like a lot, but on my runnin...

Discussion Question for my Russian history class. Why did the Bolsheviks win in 1917? You should discuss positive features about the Bolsheviks, as well as negative features about their opponents. Which of the many different positive and negative factors seem to you to be the most important? My answer. It seems to me that two major factors in the Bolshevik win were the peasant revolution and the unstoppable force that was Lenin. Back in chapter one Suny said that ". . . this mass of people by its very size and importance in the economy of Russia was quite powerful" (p.8). Later on he says that the peasants were extremely unwilling to adopt new ways and were distrustful of capitalism (pp.12&13). Lenin's uncompromising stance against any negotiation with the government most peasants were coming to distrust and associate with the bourgeoisie meant that the peasantry supported the Bolsheviks. And as Suny had indicated that was a powerful force to be reckoned with. Lenin...

I am a Clutter Queen. I inherited the syndrome from my mother, who inherited it from her mother. I remember my mother telling me about a time my grandmother pitched all my mom's stuff out her bedroom window ... usually she was threatening to do the same thing to my overstuffed bedroom. I do attempt to control the clutter. But I've got that packrat mentality. Someday, I might need that highschool paper I wrote. And sure enough, I'm wanting to get my hands on a paper I wrote for English on Beowulf ... my honors teacher wants thoughts on the art of translation and I read three different translations for that paper. So far I haven't found it-my packrat tendencies have failed me! This issue comes up today because I'm setting up our school room/office and I have mounds of paper waiting to be filed/shredded. And I don't have enough room on the bookshelf we have in here for our school stuff because I have last semester's stuff still on there. And although I have a ...

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I wish we had taken pictures. Damm was in a suit-black-with a dark blue dress shirt. He looked snazzy . I was in a swishy blue skirt and white belted short-sleeve dress shirt. The Orclette wore her shiny red dress and the Miniorc was in dark grey pants and a green polo. We were adorable . The occasion was the baptism of the son of friends of ours. They attend an Anglican church and the dress code there is a bit formal. I didn't see a single person wearing jeans, which was nice. I'm not sure I like the dressed-down look favored by modern churches. But then I like pomp and circumstance. Afterwards we were invited to a country club for lunch. It wasn't the fanciest I'd seen, but there was considerably more silverware than I was used to. And I completely thought the rule of thumb was to work from the inside out. After a while of using the big fork I noticed that everyone else was using the smaller fork ... and I remembered that it's work from the outside in. Embarrassi...