I am ridiculously sunburned after a fantastic weekend in Baltimore, which included a midnight walk around Edgar Allen Poe's estate (which was especially creepy given the fog.) It was just so relaxing there. So relaxing that I did not talk about work or President stuff the entire weekend, despite being there with the majority of my executive board. I slept all night, every night. I went running during the day (which is good considering the Race for the Cure is in two weeks, and I'm so not ready.) Just, relaxing.
Relaxed is good for my shoulders and neck, which, thanks to several rounds of lidocaine shots and some acupuncture, are no longer spasming. Hooray!
It's starting to feel like fall. School starts in eight days. I am ready. I'm ready to finally get to the action part of all of this anticipation. I went to the market and got the kind of food I know I can eat when I'm at work all day and in class all night. I also went to the gym on campus and "bought" a locker for the year so I can go to the gym any (every) time I'm on campus. I'm very excited about this idea. I also made a color-coded Excel spreadsheet of my schedule with commute, shower, eating, work, gym, and school times.
What I don't have ready:
My presentation and speech for Orientation
Books for class
A clean apartment
Rooms reserved for the events I need to advertise at said Orientation
A Netbook
Plane tickets to Kentucky for end of September for Grandma's 80th birthday (rental car already reserved)
Plane tickets and reserve rental car home for Thanksgiving
(I'm sort of waiting for my loan refund to happen for those last three)
My brother's girlfriend planned her baby shower for when I'm home for Thanksgiving. She was originally planning for it to be at Christmas, and I told her not to plan it around me, but that I'm usually not home at Christmas, so now it's pushed up. I haven't been home since February - the longest time I've gone without a trip home - and I'm already thinking I'm going to be really, really tired between:
Running a 5k on Thanksgiving morning
Having Dad's Thanksgiving
Having Mom's Thanksgiving
Seeing Katy's baby for the first time
Seeing Andrea's new baby for the first time
Seeing Courtney, Dora, Tom, Michael, and probably four or five other people
Going to Adrienne's bachelorette party
Baby shower
And, at some point, celebrating my birthday, which I'm sort of thinking isn't going to happen