A Little More Solo Action

So toady went pretty well. I showed up and we went straight to the plane. We covered a little more of the same as yesterday....basic VOR tracking, stalls and slow flight in simulated instrument conditions and a some pattern work. Well, after I didn't kill my CFI after a few patterns, he had me drop him off and go do a few patterns solo. The first one was pretty bad, a little bounce action but I saved it. The second one was WAY bad and I ended up going around. It was obvious that the winds were starting to kick up and some weather was coming in so my last approach (I originally was going to do a couple more) I did a partial flap and it was a damn nice landing. I thought to myself "Hey, let's end this on a good note..." so I brought it in for a full stop. So went back to the office and my CFI agreed with my self-critique and plan for me to go do some solo work Saturday morning. Hopefully, the weather will be OK and I can actually get it done. If it is questionable, I guess we'll go do some more practicing of my instrument work. My training record has areas that are graded. The grades are 1: Really Good 2: Above Average 3: Average 4: Not so Good 5: You SURE you want to fly? Well, my last few flights were graded 2.5 and today was graded a 2...woohoo!!! Guess I don't suck too bad, after all!!! OK, I need to go study some stuff (navigation stuff, systems stuff and more emergency procedures stuff) in addition to school work for my master's. Oh, what fun!!!