Pearls of Wisdom:
-Nothing like anger to get your butt outta bed at 4:30AM and getting you to charge forth into the day. - Me

I'm happy I have my own room. I noticed yesterday that my dorm is no longer "the dorm" in my vocabulary. It's become "home." I know I'm happy where I'm at when I can call it home. However, I seemed to have moved onto a noisy floor. It's like I can't win. Friday and Saturday night I was kept up with bizarre dreams that were crossing Facebook applications with forestry and the like. Last night, I felt like I'd finally settled down and I went to bed at a good hour only to be woken up 3 times. Finally, at 4:30 (alarm was set to 5:30) I just thought screw it and got up.

The annoyance and anger drove me through 7AM fitness (made some serious improvements over the last week and a half), and got me till about noon when I started to crash. I'm still holding out but I'm pooped. I think I'm going to attempt to go to bed in about 15 minutes here. I took an allergy pill to see if that will help me sleep.

I finally caught up on my tree ID flash cards. I have 41 trees, shrubs and vines to remember as of now. Our first quiz is on Thursday. I've not really studied beyond making the cards. I might be able to pull off the common names fairly well but the scientific names will be rough. I also have my first exam in wildlife ID and it's kinda the same deal. That one is on Wednesday so it's a priority when I study tomorrow night. I never was a good studier.

I stuck around "home" tonight instead of going to the gym like I've been doing. I'm tired as mentioned above. The stinker part is that I've only managed to catch about 11,000 steps today on the pedometer instead of my usual 15,000. (Fitness experts say you should get 10,000 steps a day so I'm good.)

Tomorrow, besides studying and wracking my brain through GIS class, I'm going to go on a hike again. I am supposed to follow a map and some compass directions to a certain point and sign my name in a notebook. I went up there Saturday and couldn't find it. I'm still not quite sure if I was in the wrong place or if I was in the right place and the box with the notebook got moved. Apparently I had been moved at some point according to our lecturer. From what people were describing, I think I was in the right spot. I also rechecked my directions and my map topography and I should have been there. Anyway, I need to go back up there and find it so I can get credit for this assignment. The climb up the last hill is a killer, lemme tell you.

Okay, it's 8:30. Time for bed. Night night. Wish me luck in sleeping. Quiet hours don't start for about an hour or so. :P

Amy