Busy week (trip report)

21Jun/100

I've been too busy to post for the last week. Most of my time has been spent researching grad schools and physically being at school. I ordered a few books to study the GMAT and I'd like to take it in December. I already know I'm going to do horrible on the verbal section so I'm going to focus a lot on that. I've never actually studied for a test. (I took the SAT after staying up all night at a friends house and never cared enough to study) I've always done pretty well at most tests without any study, but I assume I will need to do something for this one if I want a decent score.

Thursday night I stopped by the Freakin Frog to have a beer with the Beer and Blog group while game seven of the NBA finals was on. I had a good time and it was good to see a group that I haven't seen in a while. My friends Jeff and Reef have been in town so we went to Ditch Friday at the Palms pool on Friday and then out to play poker at the Aria casino that night. On Saturday we went to the Flamingo pool and back to Aria for poker. Zach and Brian came along and luckily we didn't ruin Zach's pool party.

Friday night I saw a lot of good friends that I hadn't seen in a while at Aria and it made me really happy. The World Series of Poker is going on now so a lot of players are in town and I got to meet up with quite a few of my friends. The Aria poker room is great. The games are soft, the poker room is right beside the garage, and the games are soft... wait I said that already. My only complaint is that the waiting list can be a bit long on the weekends, but that is to be expected. Next time I go I will be sure to call ahead to get myself on the waiting list.

I had to take a week off from lifting weights because my right shoulder is screwed up from moving furniture incorrectly one day. (I one-hand overhead carried a bookcase because I was irritated) It felt fine until the next day and I knew I did something wrong. Everything I've read online about shoulders says don't push through it and give it some time off or you will regret it. So I'm going to take it slow. My plan right now is to do the stepmill until my shoulder is back to feeling good.

We went grocery shopping and I got my meals for the week. I am currently planning on eating the following meal breakdown:

Time Food
0830 Eggs + Peppers
1130 Bean and Cheese Burrito
1500 Steak/Fish + Sweet Potato
1930 Salad
2130 Whey + Skim Milk
2359 Cottage Cheese + Peanut Butter

This equals out to about 2500-3k calories a day. This is a bit low but since I am not lifting I don't want to overdo it. When I'm lifting I try to get in 3k-3500 calories a day for maintenance. I plan to drink 16oz of water with each meal. Typically my meals have looked like this during the weekdays for the last month and it has done well. I have not lost any weight (not my goal) but I have lost about two inches off of my waistline and actually gained three pounds . I was drinking half a gallon of skim milk along with this when I am lifting.

Well that was a longer than usual post so here are the cliff notes: