I have been busy. Good busy and bad busy. The bad busy parts stress me out. The good busy parts are things I could do all the time, every day. And if I could get rid of the bad busy parts, I’d have time for things I like to do when I’m not doing the good busy parts, like playing on the internet. Like READING. John looked over at my book the other night, noticed I wasn’t even halfway through it, and told me it felt like I’d been reading that book forEVER. I’m not sure in exactly what way how long I spend reading a particular book affects him, but if he noticed I haven’t been reading much, then I really haven’t been reading much. Tragic.
I spent most of the last three days (all weekend and much of Monday) working on my statistics project. (This is one of the good busy things.) Nothing about it was hard, but there were a lot of pieces and the instructions were confusing. I tried to get clarification from my professor, but since I never heard back, I made some decisions based on what the instructions would have said if I’d written them. I hope they were the right decisions. I turned it in late last night. One big task done. Yay! Actually, that was the main good busy thing. The one that took most of my time. I talked to Corey finally (he’s going to disown me if I put him off any longer) – hooray for change! Also, I, uh, bought more wine from my favorite local wineries and went to Borders. Again. These were very important errands. Really. Oh, and I saw Crazy, Stupid, Love Saturday night with a woman I know from the gym. It was cute. Ryan Gosling’s ears are too small to be believed. Seriously tiny ears.
I did one other kinda major good busy thing this weekend. Big accomplishment for me. (Big.) I ran 10 miles Sunday morning. Ten whole miles. I wasn’t very fast, and I walked a little bit, but I did it. I am no longer afraid that I won’t be able to finish the race in October. I did it. The last mile was really hard (it wasn’t early morning anymore and the sun was high and the shade had disappeared and I’d been running for nearly two hours and it was my tenth mile), but I realized as I started it that I’d never run this far before (8 miles – two weeks ago – was my longest run until Sunday morning). And with every step I took, I was running farther. Each step was one more than I’d ever run before. There aren’t very many times I’ll be able to say that.
So that was my weekend. The good busy stuff is all cool and great (now that I’ve turned in my statistics project), but it doesn’t end there. I have two more quizzes and a final to complete by next Thursday for statistics, and my next calculus class (differential equations this semester) started yesterday. I’m so glad my classes only overlap by a week and a half. Any more than that and I’d be seriously considering quitting my job. I don’t know how people manage working full-time and going to school at the same time. With just one class at a time and no extra-curricular work activities (don’t get me started), when I can leave work at work, I can manage. Anything more and my head starts to spin, Exorcist-style. (It’s not pretty.) But yesterday, even though it was a Monday and I had work to do and a project to finish, was a really good day. The weather was perfect, I had the windows open to catch the very breezy breeze, I got a lot done, my legs didn’t hurt from the run the day before, and my strength class that night was calming. (I really like my gym.)
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This post was going to have an ending, but then there was an earthquake. Nothing else got done today. The earthquake ate my ending.