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well... I haven't been posting much, I know... truth is, I probably won't be able to do a whole lot of anything on my blog for the remainder of this semester... I somehow ended up with 3 difficult teachers out of the 4 I have. All three of those classes are much harder than they need to be. My honors english class is really the only class I like and seem to be doing real well in. It's a small class of about 5 people and we read stories (that at first seem disjointed and confusing), after we talk about these stories and some of the moods that are trying to be created, the use of irony, and I could keep going... It's still a class that requires a lot of work, but it just seems to always be clear what we need to do... I wish I could say the same for some of these other classes...

Anyways, I kind of started to ride again this last week along with starting the winter strength training stuff. I'm not sure what happened this weekend, but it seemed like after riding saturday for a measley hour and a half, I was dead the next day. I entertained the idea of catching some bug, but none of my symptoms were consistent with being sick. A lot of what I was feeling seemed like what I felt when I came back from France and at various times throughout previous seasons, except this was 10 times worse. I did a little research and my symptoms all seem to match that of Anemia... I don't want to self diagnose myself without talking to a doctor but I haven't really got a doctor out here yet. That's the next order of business so I can get a full blood panel done... I started taking some B12 and doubling up on a multi-vitamin and by the next day started to feel much more normal... ironic... After a little more researching, anemia can be a result of overtraining (which for sure happened in Belgium)...
Gotta get those iron levels back up... I think I will go to the store and buy some red meat tomorrow...

Aight... gotta go rewrite this speech for my teacher that's making me do a speech on Lance Armstrong... seriously, I gave her a list of great ideas that met her criteria and she tells me to write about Lance Armstrong because I'm a "cycler"... uh... yea... I spent this whole last summer around bike racers, live in a house with a bunch of bike racers, read about Armstrong in the news all of the time, ride my bike when I'm not at school, and am thinking training when I'm not on the bike. I'm pretty sure the last thing I want to talk about is anything remotely close to bike racing... Not to mention, I've rewritten this thing too many times to count because my teacher keeps changing what she wants me to talk about... grrrr... then I get my outline back today with a big B+ on it... cool yea? not really when everyone else in the class has an A! and their missing resources and such. I had all the resources outside of one I have to change because she decided (after telling us it was good) that this particular resource was no good... this was the only explanantion I could get as to why I had a B and not an A. Didn't fly with me after seeing the dudes paper sitting next to me missing 3 resources and still with a big fat A. I could handle this with 1 class, but this is how all three of those classes are like. I'm tired, still sore, frustrated, and seemingly making little progress... I am seriously hanging on by a thread at times...

with that, I'm off and gonna try to get me some sleep...