early in the morning, risin' to the street
Okay. I'm actually feeling a lot better - no work at Borders for the next three days, and both my Friday and Saturday shifts are with Sandy.
I went running this evening. The weather was *perfect*, lightly breezy and just under 70 degrees. My goal was to do 3 miles in 30 minutes, but it turned into 3 miles in 36 minutes. I guess that's not too bad. If nothing goes crazily wrong with my schedule these next few days, I'll go again on Thursday, trying to cut my time down. I like this route I've set up for myself, so now I'm going to focus on increasing my speed. I felt *awesome* after my run this time, tired but not exhausted. I knew, but am relearning in my muscles, that steady physical exercise actually fills me with energy. I am sore but not debilitated, and I feel accomplished.
Also? I am down to 122.5 pounds! This is very exciting to me, since I'm still not "dieting", just paying attention to what I eat, when, and whether I'm actually hungry. Oh, and exercising. Basically, as much as school and work are driving me crazy, I feel like my body is kinda cooperating, and that's a good thing.
Speaking of school, our course offerings were posted ... on the wall beside the English Dept office. Not online. I am quite frustrated, both with UNO's general online incompetency and with how incredibly skimpy and confining the courses offered next semester are. I'm contemplating my options, but none of them look particularly great, largely because the professor who taught my workshop last semester is teaching it again and it's exactly the same. I really don't want to do the same darn course again, but we're required to take four semesters of the workshop. I dunno quite what I'm going to do about this yet...
I went running this evening. The weather was *perfect*, lightly breezy and just under 70 degrees. My goal was to do 3 miles in 30 minutes, but it turned into 3 miles in 36 minutes. I guess that's not too bad. If nothing goes crazily wrong with my schedule these next few days, I'll go again on Thursday, trying to cut my time down. I like this route I've set up for myself, so now I'm going to focus on increasing my speed. I felt *awesome* after my run this time, tired but not exhausted. I knew, but am relearning in my muscles, that steady physical exercise actually fills me with energy. I am sore but not debilitated, and I feel accomplished.
Also? I am down to 122.5 pounds! This is very exciting to me, since I'm still not "dieting", just paying attention to what I eat, when, and whether I'm actually hungry. Oh, and exercising. Basically, as much as school and work are driving me crazy, I feel like my body is kinda cooperating, and that's a good thing.
Speaking of school, our course offerings were posted ... on the wall beside the English Dept office. Not online. I am quite frustrated, both with UNO's general online incompetency and with how incredibly skimpy and confining the courses offered next semester are. I'm contemplating my options, but none of them look particularly great, largely because the professor who taught my workshop last semester is teaching it again and it's exactly the same. I really don't want to do the same darn course again, but we're required to take four semesters of the workshop. I dunno quite what I'm going to do about this yet...