My mom called the insurance company yesterday and they said that as long as I am not permanently employed by Disney (i.e. just an internship) and taking the 2 classes I need, I will be covered under their policy.
So I've jumped through one hurdle. Now I have about 6 more to go. I'm hoping to meet with the Internship Coordinator at MC at some point to day so I can start lobbying to have it approved. So keep your fingers crossed for me!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
It's a New Day!
As part of my resolutions, I'm going to start back posting my daily training updates. Here's today's (so far....):
Meals
Breakfast- Coffee, V8 Fusion (check twitter to see what happened to the rest of my breakfast)
Lunch- 3/4 cup of Apple Sauce, 3/4 cup of Yogurt, cup of green tea
Dinner- cup of French Onion Soup, a baked potato and a Sam Adam's (YUCK! I now know that I'm a wine person!) from Applebee's. Not the best choices, but I think I'm ok.
Training
- Spedwalked 4 miles in 58 minutes
- Upperbody Machines at the Gym (3 sets of 12 on each)
- NO Gym Ab excercises (I ran out of time, but I'll fix it)
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In Other News:
I now have a Twitter account. Go check it out at www.twitter.com/mattj4226 . I swore that I wouldn't fall on to this band wagon (I also said the same about blogs, but here we are). But I tried it out and I like it. It's kind of fun!
Meals
Breakfast- Coffee, V8 Fusion (check twitter to see what happened to the rest of my breakfast)
Lunch- 3/4 cup of Apple Sauce, 3/4 cup of Yogurt, cup of green tea
Dinner- cup of French Onion Soup, a baked potato and a Sam Adam's (YUCK! I now know that I'm a wine person!) from Applebee's. Not the best choices, but I think I'm ok.
Training
- Spedwalked 4 miles in 58 minutes
- Upperbody Machines at the Gym (3 sets of 12 on each)
- NO Gym Ab excercises (I ran out of time, but I'll fix it)
_____________________
In Other News:
I now have a Twitter account. Go check it out at www.twitter.com/mattj4226 . I swore that I wouldn't fall on to this band wagon (I also said the same about blogs, but here we are). But I tried it out and I like it. It's kind of fun!
Happy New Year!!!! (Part Deux)
This post may make it seem like it's a New Year, but it's not. I just decided to recommit myself to my New Year's Resolutions and make a few more.
1) Training- Since I have not been faithful to my training, it's a new day. I am now recommitted to the Team Voice Challenges. If I don't start now, I'll never make it. So, even if I have to sacrifice an hour of study time, I'm GOING to do my "wogs"!
2) Strength Training- The cardio is great, but if I want to be healthy all around, I'm going to have to strength train. I might just get ripped in the process too, LOL!
3) Regular Updates- I feel like I'm letting the team down when I don't update you guys. I just haven't been motivated. That ends now. I'm am going to start updating the blog at least 3 times a week, but I want to do it everyday. I'm also going to start commenting on everyone elses blogs and on the fourms, so I can start motivating you all too. It seems like T.V. is down all over (I'm glad it's not just me!), so if I can get you all pumped, maybe I'll get pumped too!
Remember- We only have about 3 months before the big day! So let's all recommit ourselves... Ok?
1) Training- Since I have not been faithful to my training, it's a new day. I am now recommitted to the Team Voice Challenges. If I don't start now, I'll never make it. So, even if I have to sacrifice an hour of study time, I'm GOING to do my "wogs"!
2) Strength Training- The cardio is great, but if I want to be healthy all around, I'm going to have to strength train. I might just get ripped in the process too, LOL!
3) Regular Updates- I feel like I'm letting the team down when I don't update you guys. I just haven't been motivated. That ends now. I'm am going to start updating the blog at least 3 times a week, but I want to do it everyday. I'm also going to start commenting on everyone elses blogs and on the fourms, so I can start motivating you all too. It seems like T.V. is down all over (I'm glad it's not just me!), so if I can get you all pumped, maybe I'll get pumped too!
Remember- We only have about 3 months before the big day! So let's all recommit ourselves... Ok?
Friday, September 26, 2008
Major Change in Plans
Mongello!
I have some exciting new changes to my future plans to announce. First of all, I went to talk to my advisor (who is also the Dean of the Business School) yesterday just to discuss my plans to do the College Program next fall. Well, he told me that in order to do it, I would have to do it next semester. Also, in order to keep my financial aid and my insurance I would have to remain a full time student. That means that I would have to take 12 hours worth of credit. The CP (technically an internship) counts 6 hours. Now I have to convince the Registrar's Office to let me take 2 of the Disney classes while I'm there, or I'll have to find online classes at another university.
The point is, if I can get all of my ducks in a row, and I get accepted, and the school approves the classes, I will officially be a Disney Cast Member next semester!!!
I have already applied and I have a CP presentation that I have to go to at Hinds CC in Raymond next Thursday. There I either get interviewed or I schedule an interview (I'm assuming the former). Anybody who has gone through this process before (you know who you are!), anything you could tell me would be great! I'm also going to make up a resume, just to show off!
There is a dark cloud however (as usual for me). This could interfere with the Marathon. I'm hoping that it doesn't, but if it does what can I do? I know I can't get a refund. Will it carry over to next year? Even if I do have to postpone my marathon, I'm going to continue to train
This is all a little overwhelming. I thought I had a whole year to get things ready. Now I have 3 months!
How is everyone?
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IN OTHER NEWS:
We have a new member of Team Voice! Andy from Minnesota has joined our little community and is training for the 2010 Marathon. Go over to his blog and show him your support!
Welcome to the team Andy!!!
I have some exciting new changes to my future plans to announce. First of all, I went to talk to my advisor (who is also the Dean of the Business School) yesterday just to discuss my plans to do the College Program next fall. Well, he told me that in order to do it, I would have to do it next semester. Also, in order to keep my financial aid and my insurance I would have to remain a full time student. That means that I would have to take 12 hours worth of credit. The CP (technically an internship) counts 6 hours. Now I have to convince the Registrar's Office to let me take 2 of the Disney classes while I'm there, or I'll have to find online classes at another university.
The point is, if I can get all of my ducks in a row, and I get accepted, and the school approves the classes, I will officially be a Disney Cast Member next semester!!!
I have already applied and I have a CP presentation that I have to go to at Hinds CC in Raymond next Thursday. There I either get interviewed or I schedule an interview (I'm assuming the former). Anybody who has gone through this process before (you know who you are!), anything you could tell me would be great! I'm also going to make up a resume, just to show off!
There is a dark cloud however (as usual for me). This could interfere with the Marathon. I'm hoping that it doesn't, but if it does what can I do? I know I can't get a refund. Will it carry over to next year? Even if I do have to postpone my marathon, I'm going to continue to train
This is all a little overwhelming. I thought I had a whole year to get things ready. Now I have 3 months!
How is everyone?
_____________________________________
IN OTHER NEWS:
We have a new member of Team Voice! Andy from Minnesota has joined our little community and is training for the 2010 Marathon. Go over to his blog and show him your support!
Welcome to the team Andy!!!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Just Another Bad Day
Ok... I was just starting to feel better, then the $%&$ hit the fan.
I ran the 15k yesterday and I think I did pretty good. But, I have no way of knowing because my iPod died on me. I use the stopwatch feature to keep up with my time and laps. So I'm not even sure I did 9.3 miles. I may have to do it again.
Now to top it off, I may have to start my training over somewhat again. As you all know, I've either been sick, or not in the mood to train over the past 2 weeks. If I did train, it was on the indoor track (which is totally flat). Yesterday, I ran around campus (which is nothing but hills and slopes). Needless to say, I am sore today. I think I may have pulled something in my leg too.
So, I'm going to start over and get used to the terrian around here before I start running again. It shouldn't take too long, but I can't do that again!
I ran the 15k yesterday and I think I did pretty good. But, I have no way of knowing because my iPod died on me. I use the stopwatch feature to keep up with my time and laps. So I'm not even sure I did 9.3 miles. I may have to do it again.
Now to top it off, I may have to start my training over somewhat again. As you all know, I've either been sick, or not in the mood to train over the past 2 weeks. If I did train, it was on the indoor track (which is totally flat). Yesterday, I ran around campus (which is nothing but hills and slopes). Needless to say, I am sore today. I think I may have pulled something in my leg too.
So, I'm going to start over and get used to the terrian around here before I start running again. It shouldn't take too long, but I can't do that again!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Yeah... About Applefest....
Hey Guys!
It seems like everytime I have a race planned, a stupid (sorry) football game has to ruin my plans! So I've been in and out of rehersal and doing laundry all day.
So... I'm going to run the Applefest 15k (or 10k) tomorrow. I have nothing to do tomorrow, so this will workout for the better. So I'll post again after I run tomorrow.
In the mean time...
Have you guys seen the new Disney Parks commercial? Oh my goodness! It is awesome!!! I will admit that I teared up a little!
Here's a link to it:
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/WhatWillYouCelebrate/index?name=CelebrationVideoPage
It seems like everytime I have a race planned, a stupid (sorry) football game has to ruin my plans! So I've been in and out of rehersal and doing laundry all day.
So... I'm going to run the Applefest 15k (or 10k) tomorrow. I have nothing to do tomorrow, so this will workout for the better. So I'll post again after I run tomorrow.
In the mean time...
Have you guys seen the new Disney Parks commercial? Oh my goodness! It is awesome!!! I will admit that I teared up a little!
Here's a link to it:
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/WhatWillYouCelebrate/index?name=CelebrationVideoPage
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