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My heat went out yesterday... again... but thankfully it was an easy fix to get the furnace working this time. (And my hot water froze again the day before after I accidentally shut it off for a whole eight hours. I got it back the next morning. My landlord has been packing more insulation in around the heater where the pipes froze and messing with the space heater.)
The public session at the rink on Friday was very calm, and yesterday in my lesson, my coach said my back crossovers and back outside edges are improving, woo. Last time, we did spirals, and he asked if I'd been practicing (yes!), and we did three-turns for the first time in a month and a half, and he said those are coming along well, too. Back inside edges are still a work in progress. I'm also still having a lot of arch pain when I do some skills - I even had to pause halfway through our lesson to loosen my skate laces because the pain was getting to be too much after fifteen minutes. He said he's going to introduce me to someone who can help take a look at my skates, but I need to get on him about that next time. (He also said it might just be my boots breaking in more/my feet getting used to a new weird way of moving. That would be nice. I'd like to make sure I'm not hurting them, though.)
I finally got my USFSA learn-to-skate intro package today. 95% of it is useless to me, because it assumes that you are a parent of a child who is learning to skate. I might keep the skills booklet, although a glance through it re-affirmed that my coach and I are all over the place compared to their curriculum. (There is also an artistic track I haven't heard of that features such skills as 'rhythm, tempo, and melody' and 'facial expression'. Wonder what the criteria are there.) The spread on SafeSport and what to do if something bad happens felt painfully ironic given what happened recently.
Spent six hours helping Z do data entry for a paper a couple days ago. It was originally due on the first, though he and his co-author had originally mistaken the due date for the fifteenth. He was very, very happy when they got an email on Friday saying that it had been extended to the fifteenth after all, since so many people wanted extensions. We celebrated by playing Overcooked 2 for several hours and had a great time.
My dissertation proposal (draft) has been sent to my advisor. I hope it is okay. I hope my experiment idea is okay. Still a lot more work to do, tonight and tomorrow and onward. Going to go make dinner, then have some fresh bread when it comes out of the machine. My kitchen smells so good right now.
The public session at the rink on Friday was very calm, and yesterday in my lesson, my coach said my back crossovers and back outside edges are improving, woo. Last time, we did spirals, and he asked if I'd been practicing (yes!), and we did three-turns for the first time in a month and a half, and he said those are coming along well, too. Back inside edges are still a work in progress. I'm also still having a lot of arch pain when I do some skills - I even had to pause halfway through our lesson to loosen my skate laces because the pain was getting to be too much after fifteen minutes. He said he's going to introduce me to someone who can help take a look at my skates, but I need to get on him about that next time. (He also said it might just be my boots breaking in more/my feet getting used to a new weird way of moving. That would be nice. I'd like to make sure I'm not hurting them, though.)
I finally got my USFSA learn-to-skate intro package today. 95% of it is useless to me, because it assumes that you are a parent of a child who is learning to skate. I might keep the skills booklet, although a glance through it re-affirmed that my coach and I are all over the place compared to their curriculum. (There is also an artistic track I haven't heard of that features such skills as 'rhythm, tempo, and melody' and 'facial expression'. Wonder what the criteria are there.) The spread on SafeSport and what to do if something bad happens felt painfully ironic given what happened recently.
Spent six hours helping Z do data entry for a paper a couple days ago. It was originally due on the first, though he and his co-author had originally mistaken the due date for the fifteenth. He was very, very happy when they got an email on Friday saying that it had been extended to the fifteenth after all, since so many people wanted extensions. We celebrated by playing Overcooked 2 for several hours and had a great time.
My dissertation proposal (draft) has been sent to my advisor. I hope it is okay. I hope my experiment idea is okay. Still a lot more work to do, tonight and tomorrow and onward. Going to go make dinner, then have some fresh bread when it comes out of the machine. My kitchen smells so good right now.
