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The fall semester is running to its close within the next week, and that forces me to remember the term papers I've forgotten until today. My lab final happens tomorrow, and the major Term paper needs to be in by Wednesday the latest. Then the finals should be simple enough the following week. If I'd just release myself from my earthly bonds, like friends, sleep and karate (which is supposed to help me transcend in the first place), I'd have my work up to date, and I'd be able to show up to the dojo for the last week until the holiday to work out. Doesn't appear I'm disciplined as such though. However, if I've got so much to do, why am I here telling you about it instead of staring at a blank page for another couple hours? I figure that a break would hopefully induce something to happen, or at the very least, relieve enough tension to allow a decent information synthesis and flow to occur. I plan on being holed up in the library until the sun turns in tomorrow so I can get this done...

Which reminds me, I still have places to explore on that campus. This occurred to me after chasing my ride from one pick up zone to the next when they couldn't figure out where the CLB building was; I logged in a good couple miles before they just parked and told me to find the WLB building, to which I'm shocked that I hadn't been there before. It ended up being right next to the train station, and I got home safely, but just how many locations haven't I been? Discounting the new additions of the art museum and such, I'd gather that I've only missed a few areas: the music hall of the OCB, the horticulture building, the observatory, the auditorium in the CC building, and the roofs. That's quite a bit to be explored when I think about it, and I've been trying to escape this school for a much larger university to explore. That should make my final semester a bit more fun when I get around to filling the rest of my graduation requirements.

The cold has hit me harshly again, and I'm just about down to my knees with the aches and pains. I think I'm getting into the habit of applying biofreeze nearly every day. People ask me why I continue to participate in such sports, and I can only say that it's not the sport that's hurting me. And it isn't, it's the people kicking me in the god forsaken knees that puts me in so much pain! However, that doesn't happen so often, the real issue is due to my patella deviating off of its axis because my lateral muscles are stronger than ther counter parts. This causes total joint pain... The knees are fine--I'll never need a new one the doctor said, I've just got to rehabilitate them so they'd return to a normal state. It's not easy stretching specific motions and strengthening my medial muscles to par, because when it gets this cold you just don't want to move. The exercises need to be carried out consistently for a long period of time in order to do any good, but every year that winter rolls around, I go back to square one. It leaves me frustrated.

The stresses of responsibility are making the joys of leasure very difficult.