oooouch

Went to bed TOOO late last night again. I have to curb this habit...but it's fun!

After lunch, I had to go and TA a bunch of poor little second year engineering students in the engineering design course. They have to make a machine that weighs different grains and puts them in a certain order in jars, and then screws the lid on the jar. It's a pretty decent design project I think. The only problem is that I really suck as a TA. I don't know anything!! A question about circuits? no clue. A question about how their microcontroller chip works? no clue. A question about how to do something in the machine shop? A bit more clue, but still it's been so long I don't remember much. What an awful TA I am! booohooohooo :-( At least I try to be supportive and seem like I care. That's the very least I can do.

Anyway, after the TAing I went to the gym with a friend of mine, and we began our weight training for the season. Sadly, I found out that my legs are incredibly weak and powerless! No wonder I have trouble climbing hills. I can ride for a really long time, but not at a very high power. It is really weird, because my quads are actually fairly large, and I thought that the slow twitch muscle fibres (those are the long endurance ones) are usually fairly long and not so big, whereas the fast twitch muscles are much much bigger. You just have to compare a sprinter with any other rider...they are HUGE! I have no sprinting ability whatsoever, but my quads look like they should be good at that. Oh well, hopefully the weight training will make my slow twitch muscles stronger. In the meantime, I had a really hard time walking up and down stairs afterwards! OOOOOW.