4th of July Madness 2008
April 24, 2008 on 5:36 pm | In 4th of July Madness | No CommentsAt the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 I went home to Bulgaria for almost a whole month. Prior to my departure I was exercising enthusiastically because I had a bit more spare time, I had switched gyms, and nonetheless I wanted to be in shape for my visit home. Funnily, despite my extra efforts in the gym I was 190 pounds but I wasn’t lean. The scary part was that I was lifting 3-4 times a week and I was doing cardio at least 2-3 times, that including a crazy, fun spin class (I miss spin class with Bunny; it was an intense 1-hour experience).
As far as I recall, I did aerobic exercises, that being, running, outside, doing cardio at the gym or spin class from the opening of 2006 4th-of-July-Madness season all throughout the middle of 2007 when I started my new job and was so exhausted from it that I gave up cardio as a whole. The 2007 4th-of-July-Madness season coincided with my moving to NY and not working for about 3 months; time well spent job searching and exercising. I dropped down to 175lb. and looked GOOD.
Insipid of the lack of aerobic exercises, I kept the weight off for the longest time. Unfortunately, I’m back at 190, which happened in the span of 2 months – January and February. Consequently, I’ve opened the 2008 4th-of-July-Madness season with the first run on March 23, 2008. I’m now trying to maintain Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - lifting weights – and Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday running outside for 30 to 45 minutes. The goal is to get back to 180lbs by 4th of July, 2008. So far I have created 3 new running tracks and have been keeping up with doing them in full. It was difficult getting back on track after an 8-month break.
Yes, our life is a circle and we must do our best to always run as hard as possible so that its radius only gets bigger and the trajectory of our shadow thicker.
I’m a 1/4 CPA
April 10, 2008 on 10:49 am | In CPA, School | 1 CommentI was trying to set a “at-least-once-a-week” entry rule for my blog but it is a physically unattainable goal. I’m continuing with a work/study/life balance overload.
The good news is that on Saturday Mar 22, ‘08 was my last class lecture. Becker suggests that you take the class lectures in pairs and that you sit for each within 2 weeks of completion of the lectures’ end. That translates in a chapter a week. Something that is possible only if you don’t work, you work a job that lets you study all day, you work PT, you are an absolute genius or a careless and relentless gambler. Of course you can pass all 4 parts from the seventh try but… I suppose I’m a slow learner but I gave myself 3 months for each part. It stretches it over the whole year and it sounds a lot but when you break down the fact that each chapter requires between 30 and 40 hours of studying to guarantee success - this is a FT job and I already have one!!!
On a different note, after my last class at the Pennsylvania hotel I met up with Paul, Jose and some other friends, we went to the movies… I think. The movie wasn’t anything special; I don’t even remember its name, it was one of those American versions of a Japanese horror films. The fun part is when I got back to my house. I parked my car across the street, it was around 1:30am, I spotted, from 20 feet away, that there was mail in the mailbox and something told me that it has been a month, to the day, and I must have received the results from the BEC part. Sure enough, there was an envelope from NASBA in there.
I got in the house carrying the mail and a fierce debate with myself - should I open the envelope or should I keep it till morning. It took a lot of discipline but I finally placed the unopened envelope on my bed-stand and went to sleep. Of course first thing in the morning, after brushing my teeth, was to open it and find out that I’ve past!!!
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