17 posts tagged “running”
Today was a good day, but the "jubilation" part of my title is from the song "Cecelia," which is currently STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR GOOD. I did an earworms post last summer, and I don't know how this song didn't make my list. It was stuck in my head for the longest time and I finally got it out, but I heard the song again today.
What's with New Kids on the Block being big again? When did we revert back to first grade/1990?
So today was good. I think I'm going to have to start showing up to work at 8 instead of 8:15ish. I'm definitely not the only one who doesn't show up at 8 (luckily the environment is very flexible). When I got to work this morning, I saw that I had been invited (or, rather, told) to attend a meeting, since I would have to take over the rest once the chair left. The email had been sent late yesterday, and I didn't receive it until this morning. The meeting started at 8:30. I read this email at 8:25. Cue Jenny scrambling for her materials.
The project is going well. Now we have an intern, and it's weird to think that I have enough work to where I can be delegating a little bit of it to her. This project has gotten really busy in the past couple of weeks, and I'm getting more and more work/responsibility. I'm just at the EIT level so I can't imagine how busy it must be for the project managers! I'm learning so much in this project. If you had asked me if anything related to water (water lines, wastewater) was interesting back when I was in school, I would have laughed at you. I thought, what's the big deal about water lines? Design them, put 'em in. Boring. But there's so much more to it than that. Sure, details about valves can be dry no matter how you spin them, but it's the whole design process that makes this work interesting. You can't provide a design without all the details-do you have access to this land to do the design? Are there any critical environmental features to avoid? What about designing through creeks? Traffic control? Is TxDOT is building new roads? What legal and political factors are driving this process? I wouldn't mind being a remediation/infrastructure hybrid. Infrastructure is turning out to be more interesting than I thought it would be.
So after work I went to my eye appointment. Besides the shot of air and bright lights, I love eye appointments (I'm such a nerd!) It's fun to pick prescriptions (when I was younger, I would drive my doctors crazy because I was so indecisive. "Is 1 or 2 better?" "Um...I'm not sure...can you go back? 1. No, wait. 2. I think.") Mine went pretty quickly, though. My eyesight got worse, not surprising. I have new contacts and ::cue heavenly music:: I am no longer blind. It's been about 2 months since I've worn my contacts, and I always forget how awesome they are until I wear them for the first time after a long time. I can't help thinking, "I can see, I can see!"
The run today was good. I think I'm getting acclimated? It was 101 and I felt stronger during this run than I have in awhile. I need to push myself more, though. I'm getting to the point where I'm just running in my comfort zone because I'm inherently lazy, and there isn't any solid improvement. I was doing alright but by the last lap I was getting tired (more mentally than physically, I think). Some older guy kept running behind me and that was annoying, so by the last lap I made sure I drank my water slowly so he could run ahead of me. I'm competitive and if someone is running behind me, I want to run faster and I wanted to take this last lap slower. By the end, Anya, who coaches running on the side, ran up behind me. "You have the potential to run a minute faster than the rate you're running at now," she said. "Try lengthening your stride." I obeyed and sprinted to the finish line. It was tough but I felt exhilarated at the end. "You finished at a 6:30 pace," she said. "And you quickened your pace by even more than a minute." I was grateful for Anya's kick to the ass. I need to push myself because I will be a better runner for it.
I'm trying to eat healthier. I'm a terrible sugar fiend. I'm trying to give up soda except for special treats, and I'm trying to remember to take my vitamins. I bought a bunch of healthy snacks and brought them to work. I brought tea to work too because I am rather hyperactive and anxious, so tea is relaxing. I brought honey too, because honey is supposed to be a natural stimulant (or so I read), and heaven knows I need a stimulant since I gave up caffeine for the umpteenth time. I felt good during the run today thanks to my healthy snacks, so I'm going to keep this up.
Some progress is being made...I think :)
Mother of eff, it's 11:49 and I need to head to sleep. My family is coming in tomorrow. Yay! If you read all this...then you are amazing. Because I just wrote a huge, meaningless post.
I haven't blogged in a couple of days and I feel like it's been forever. I'm so used to writing in this thing.
This weekend was fun. I went home for Father's Day. I got home later on Friday than expected because apparently there were a bunch of events going on here that I was unaware of. I was stuck in the City traffic for an hour and a half, and it took me an hour and a half longer to get home. My dad got his Father's Day gift early. My mom and I got my dad some Reno 911! dvds, which he liked a lot.
My dad got me an early birthday gift and convinced me to open it early (okay, so there wasn't very much convincing on his part). It is a flatscreen, 19-inch LCD TV! AND it's 1080p! My parents still spoil me. The color is really great on it. Now I can play my XBox and not have to squint at what's going on. My parents were making fun of me because they left my gift on my desk, and I was so tired on Friday that I just kind of dropped my bag off in my room without looking around it. Then my dad came in and as a joke pointed to his small fridge that he stores there during the summer and said, "I got you a fridge!" I faked a look of joy and happiness (I thought it was a weird gift since I already have a fridge, but I wanted to be grateful), and my parents made fun of my apparently convincing acting skills. (But I really like my new TV. I wasn't faking that).
This weekend I saw the National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Semi-Pro. I liked both but I thought the first National Treasure was much better (and slightly more plausible, if that makes any sense at all), and Semi-Pro doesn't hit classic status like Talladega Nights. Other than that, I just relaxed and did errands, like getting synthetic oil put in my truck. It took forever, and Pat and I went through the whole Master of Puppets album before we were finished. The last time I had synthetic oil put into my car was with the first Pearl back in January, and then I got into the wreck three weeks later. So here's to hoping that this round lasts a LOT longer than the first.
This weekend my family and I were in the HEB parking lot, and this woman literally about ran us over when she was backing up. Her windows were open, and we were all pretty nice considering what had about happened. Instead of being contrite for almost, you know, mowing us down with her vehicle, as we were walking away, the woman sarcastically yelled out, "Thanks for your comments, have a nice day!" My dad was laughing and hollered, "We didn't even say anything!" (Patrick later said that he had called her stupid, but I don't remember hearing him say that). But she kept on talking trash and simultaneously backing up without looking. My dad turned around and yelled, "You better pay attention to what you're doing, you're about to hit someone." Sure enough, she was this close to backing into another vehicle. We all had a pretty good laugh about her.
Work has been keeping me busy. I like it.
The run today was good but still quite warm. We did Fartlek intervals, 15 x 200's with a 50-m recovery. I did the Fartleks at a comfortable pace, and I took water breaks in between. I could feel my head pounding a little, which means I didn't drink enough water during the day. It's better to stop and replenish your water and energy instead of trying to look badass and getting sick later.
Lindy dancing lesson tomorrow. Yay!
I'm having company this weekend :) At least I have a working fridge!
My friend Meg officially is on her way to Alaska. I'm going to miss her, she was a good pal to me.
Changes are in the works. Look out, world.
I finally have a new fridge. Yay! The new part would have taken 15 days to get in, and apparently was more expensive than the fridge itself. Finally. The other maintenance men (who for some reason had to repair and replace my French door in the kitchen) made me mad, though. I'm going to have to let the office know. I came home and found that they had moved my table without putting it back, and placed my blinds in one of the rooms. I had closed the door before I went to work. If the door is closed and you do not have a maintenance job related to that room, then you have no business opening it. I have a glass table, and even though I may sound like a wimpy girl, it's heavy to lift that glass up again. I did it but I would rather not do it again. There's two maintenance men, they should have no trouble putting that table back in a minute. People live here, assholes. Put everything back the way you found it.
I went on a good run today. The weather was cooler so it wasn't as bad, but my legs were so sore from Monday's workout (and I think even from dancing a little yesterday, because we worked on bouncing in rhythm.) So I've decided that I'm definitely going to try and make it to the downtown swing dance next week. Yeah! I've heard that these dancers are amazing, so I really want to see what I can learn. Eventually I want to take lessons down there as well, because they have this amazing lineup of Lindy classes. My major concern is parking; I've heard it's challenging in this area, but I'll ask people at my class next Tuesday and see where the best places to park will be. Worse comes to worse, I can be a major nerd and show up super early to snag a good spot. I would like to go tomorrow, but since I have a long day ahead of me on Friday (what with work and travel), it'd be best to get a good night's rest. Dancing always leaves me keyed up for a couple of hours, and unlike my good old college days, I can't dance until midnight, go to sleep at 2, and then wake up nice and late. I have a JOB. BOO responsibility.
Work has been keeping me busy. I finally have a use for a planner. It used to be that I could just remember things for school and activities, but now there's more important things riding on my memory, so writing everything down is key. Plus, it's terribly satisfying to look at my planner at the end of the day and see how much is crossed off (and a little depressing to see how much I have yet to do). There's one major project that pretty much takes up all my time. It's a huge project and I'm doing some engineering and real estate support work on it, and there's always something to do with it. Always. But I love being busy!
I finished a mystery novel and really enjoyed it (I need to start doing book reviews again, I'm so lazy). It is from the Maisie Dobbs series, a series that I enjoy immensely. It is about this woman detective in the 20's and 30's and they are really good books. I really like the character and the stories don't get bogged down with any romance either. There are some books where I don't mind romance being a key plot (i.e. Gone With the Wind), but in others, I find it a pain if it interferes with mystery or action stories.
Crap, it's already 11 and I'm wide-awake. I need to go simmer down before bedtime. I'd like to try to get another run in tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.
It's already another Monday. I can't wrap my head around how fast these months are zipping by. Well, this weekend was really fun. One of my friends from high school had his 24th birthday celebration this weekend, so we hung out and went to Outback. Outback sucks but I had a lot of fun being there with my friends. It's crazy to think that I've known some of them for nearly 10 years!
This weekend I also went back to swing class. It's beginning, so it was kind of boring ("Let's learn how to do a rock step and triple step." Sigh). And also...how do I say this politely? The people attending the class were not in my age demographic. But one of them said I was easy to dance with since I knew what I was doing (but then again, remember that these are all beginners so that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm terribly skilled). I'm going to try and head to the Lindy class tomorrow evening. Even though it's a beginning class too, it's been awhile since I've taken a Lindy class and I need a brush-up on the basics. I hate dancing with guys who are just learning Lindy, because they are so rough and don't have any rhythm.
But I can't complain, because I know I made a lot of mistakes when I was learning it (like not keeping enough tension and, um, trying to lead). But I'm really glad I went back, at any rate. I love dancing. It allows me to express the graceful side of me that usually does not exist. Plus I have fun ballerina flats to dance in now. I should have listened to my dancing instructors from college; those are way more fun to dance in than heels! Even though this dance studio isn't the downtown scene, it still offers really great classes. I think I'll want to take West Coast later on. I took one West Coast class last year (last year already?!) and it was a lot of fun.
Today at work I kept busy, busy, busy. I'm working on one project and it keeps me busy pretty much every day, every week. It's a huge project though so I'm learning so much from it.
Today at the running group we had to do circuits. We had to do 100s at a "reasonably fast but not all out sprint" and then do calisthenics. The circuits were push-ups, lunges, crunches, and then jumps. I thought it would be easy, but hale no. I did 4 of those and then ran a really slow mile. I heard it takes 6 weeks to get acclimated to the heat. I want to hurry up and get acclimated already.
If I were Paul Bunyan, I would drop-kick my refrigerator down a flight of stairs and watch it crash to the ground with a sickenly satisfying crunch.
Already the middle of May. Seriously, 2008. Slow the fuck down.
Today one of my friends texted me to say how bored he was at work and how he didn't want to do anything. Man, I felt the same way. I had a "case of the Mondays" this morning, but then work picked up this afternoon and I was busy again. I texted him back on how jealous I was of the stupid college kids and their summer breaks. Enjoy it while you can, assholes. I have to say that even though vacation time is severely shortened out here in the "real world," I'd much rather have the 8-5 days, guilt-free evenings, and no tests :)
Today I was working on a problem at work, and I figured out how to do it fairly quickly (I'm not trying to be a show-off, because the problem was pretty easy). But even though I knew I had the right process, I couldn't make intuitive sense of it. So I doubted myself and spent awhile trying out other solutions. Nothing. I put the problem away and went to run an errand at the TCEQ office. I came back, looked at the problem, and figured out in a minute where I'd wrong: my original math was right, just my justification for it was off. I was frustrated at how easy the problem actually was, and I how I'd made it so much harder by overthinking it. Two lessons: I shouldn't doubt myself when I know the math is right, and I should just put the problem away next time and let my subconscious work it out.
The run today was good. 5 sets of 400/200s. The 200s kick my ass. I like running as fast as I can for the first, but it gets harder with each successive one. The weather was cool, so that was nice, at least. (Well, the weather was probably around 70 degrees. Living in Texas for 14 years has warped what my sense of cold weather is.)
This weekend I went home for Mother's Day, of course. How can I spend Mother's Day without seeing my mama? I got my mom some lotion from Victoria Beckham's line. My mom loves Victoria Beckham so it was an ideal gift. (My mom is really bad with remembering names, so sometimes she'll call her "Rebecca Buchman." Hee.) It was nice to be home, and I had a good time with my family. My mom always makes me a nice Italian sauce, and my dad will usually make some sort of barbeque dish, and I take the leftovers from that too. See, I don't even live at home anymore, and I still manage to eat all the food. Ha!
This weekend I went to see Iron Man with Pat. The theater was so packed (at 11:45 am on Saturday!) that we had to sit in the 2nd to front row. (Obadiah Stane's head looked extra huge from that view, let me tell you.)
I really liked this movie. It had a great plot, really good acting (except for Gwyneth Paltrow's apparent inability to act in front of a green screen, but she was tolerable in other scenes), the sarcastic humor that I like, minimal romance that would otherwise suck the life out of an action flick, and good eye candy for me (seriously, this movie makes you see RDJ in a new light). I like the character's name too ;)
Um so I have three days to finish my two stories before the writing contest's submission date. Hey, it's just like college!
Wow, I have written entirely too much for one post. Time for me to call it a night :)
Holy hell, how is it already Wednesday? And almost May, at that? That means that there's a little more than two months until I turn 24 (sigh). January and February were so slow, but March and April just shot by.
Today was a good, random day. I started off my morning by making a dumb driving mistake. It was nothing dramatic, I mistakenly went before my turn at a 4-way stop sign. I texted my brother and asked him if he'd ever done that before and he said that he had...just this morning! Isn't that funny? I'm sure it will warm my parents' hearts to know that their children do not know how to wait for their turn at stop signs.
At work I got assigned to do a small research task for a project we're working on. It has to do with bioremediation, which is right up my alley. I don't care if my task is just a small part of the project. I've been doing a lot of support work for the infrastructure group lately. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the work there and I'm learning a lot. But remediation is my baby, so I'm happy that I'm getting work in that department as well.
Today I drove all the way downtown and was all ready early for the meeting that we'd had scheduled. I got antsy when it was five minutes till the meeting was supposed to start and no one had showed up. I knew that I'd gotten the right place and time, so I called my coworkers. Turns out they had canceled the meeting that morning and conveniently had forgotten to tell me. I'm not upset because the mileage and $2.50 I spent for the parking meter is reimbursed. I'm going to mess with them the next time I have to attend a meeting. "Are you sure you all aren't going to cancel this at the last minute and forget to tell me about it?"
The run today was AWESOME. Today's run was the first time in nearly four years that I finally felt closer to being the runner I was when I was nineteen. I didn't finish last, and instead of using the recovery time to walk, I kept running. I pushed myself and was doing really well for the first two laps; I just have to work on having a strong finishing lap (which has always been my weakness). Everyone is so encouraging, cheering you on at the end. What a great group of people. Like my dad says, "Have you ever met a runner who is unhappy?" There was a bit of a commotion today as there was a rattlesnake on one of the trails. He was all curled up, luckily, and not shaking his rattler. I had advance warning and I thought he was a small critter, so he didn't really bother me. I thought it was kind of cool, actually, as I'd never seen a rattlesnake in person before. Some other people were freaking out over him though. Now if he had been bigger and had that rattler going, THEN there would be problems.
I'm enjoying it here so far. I've been here for three months and I finally feel like I'm making a life for myself here. I'm meeting people and doing things that I enjoy.
Man, I scratched up my leg today after the run. I scraped my leg against the pavement. It looks like I've been clawed. Will I ever have ladylike legs? They are constantly bruised.
I came up with a story idea today. I think I will work on it. It's an idea for a kid's novel. I think it has potential if I develop it more.
Volleyball double-header tomorrow. James is now the team captain. This ought to be interesting.
I want to read a bit before bed. I never want to fall asleep, and I never want to get up in the morning. It has been this way since I've been a baby. Night, y'all.
I was looking at an old gas receipt from last week, and already the price of gas has risen 10 cents per gallon since then. This is the only, only time I wish I drove some death trap of a vehicle, because you want to know how much I spent filling up only half a tank? Fifty dollars. For half a tank. Yay for gas-guzzling trucks. Sigh.
This weekend was fun. I watched There Will Be Blood. I liked it, it was really good. Caveat: if you are expecting an action-packed film, this is certainly not the movie for you. It unfolds slowly but it has a really good story. And it certainly wasn't as slow as some of the movies I had to watch for my film class, like The Claim, which was so terribly boring (was that really two years ago already?) The performances in this movie were really good too. I can see why Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar. I think Paul Dano should have gotten at least nominated, because he also did a really good job. Even the kid actors were talented and weren't hammy and annoying like some kid actors tend to get.
I am so thirsty. I need to get some water. I went for the run today and forgot my stopwatch :( It was a short workout, a little over mile that was split into a 500 m sprint and two 200 m sprints. I felt like I was having an easier time running faster, but who knows, since I didn't have a stopwatch to confirm this.
So I finally have business cards. I feel terribly official now. I put my title as "Graduate Environmental Engineer" which is unnecessarily fancy. But I didn't want to put "EIT" because even though I passed the FE, I'm still waiting for the dumb certificate to come in and I didn't want anyone to look me up in the database and think I was lying when my name didn't pop up. So far I have only given my business card to a friend at work, my parents, and my hairdresser, who I've known since I was in high school. Her name is Rocio and she is adorable. She is really proud of me and always gives me dating and life advice, and no one does hair like her (not at the good price she charges, at least). Anyway, Rocio was so excited about my business cards that she took several. I have yet to give my cards to a client.
I need a new schedule. It will commence tomorrow. I think.
Ok I really need to get some water and start winding down.
This weekend was so much fun. Meg and Matt came into town. I haven't seen Meg since December, so I was really excited for her visit. We went to Arts Festival, which was actually really disappointing. There was some good art there, but so expensive! I'd naively brought $40 with me to splurge on a piece of good art. Yeah, um, most of the art there was $300 and up. There were even a couple of sculptures that were $10,000. (I stayed far away from those). But we had fun walking around downtown all day doing touristy things and we ate downtown at night ;)
Yesterday evening, I put my culinary skillz to work. I made a recipe from my Rachael Ray cookbook-Wild Mushroom Turkey Patties. So good! I made my own gravy for it too. I also made ragu' but it didn't come out as good as it did the last time I made it. Plus, hot sauce from the pan hit my arm and now I have a burn there. Sexy! Finally, I made a Chocolate Pecan pie. It was great. So I still have meals for this week AND dessert. Win-win.
Work today went well. This morning was one of those time-warp mornings. I spent it working on a memo, and by the time I turned it in, I felt like I'd done little to the memo. Ugh, Mondays! But this afternoon was productive. I had to go to another meeting, at some new location on the other side of town. I didn't get lost, woot! Well, to clarify: I didn't get lost getting to the general location, but the reps at the meeting we were going to gave the project manager and me bad directions on how to find the building. I don't think that counts :) Another place to add to my grid. I'm so glad that mileage is reimbursed because it was a 50-mile round trip!
The run today was awesome. I love my running groups. A bunch of great, positive people who share a common love: running! Today's run started with two 700 m sprints at 5K pace, with a 100 m recovery for each. Then four 300 m sprints at goal mile pace with a 100 m recovery for each. Those 300s kicked my ass...it actually hurt to breathe after I was done with each lap. But I had a strong last lap and I felt good enough to run a couple more slow laps. I have insider information that the next workout is going to be insane so I'm going to rest up for it. :) I'm getting addicted to running again. I love feeling stronger with each run, and, of course, the runner's high.
Time for me to go and relax before tomorrow.
I can't believe it's April already. Last week was too cold for my liking, but the weather has been gorgeous lately. Stay warm, Texas. My 23-year-old bones can't handle the cold anymore.
Yesterday, I hit my head on something that will remain nameless (because it's dumb/embarrassing), so now I have this sexy, triangle-shaped mark on my forehead. Awesome.
You know what song I've been hearing a lot lately? "Informer," by Snow. I have no idea why-I am not actively seeking it out, it just pops up on my radio or TV. I have to say this: I cannot understand one fucking word that guy is saying, other than "Informer." To me, it just sounds like, "Infor-MAH, blah blah de dlu de blah bly blayou, duhduhdee doe doe di doe doe dow."
I had this awesome run: I ran 1.15 miles, and I hit the mile mark around 6:30-7:00ish. YAY. I am improving! Formerly awesome running self, here I come! I didn't feel completely winded at the end of the run, either. Then the coach had us run 8 buildups/build-downs. Those kicked my ass.
Dark chocolate with orange peels in them is the best treat ever!
Despite getting lost downtown, I WILL learn this city. At least I can add one more place to my grid :)
Um, my boyfriend, Joel McHale, is on TV, so obviously, I must stop typing up this random blog and commence with watching. Adios.
Confession-I have a love/hate relationship with driving. For some of people, driving is an intuitive process that comes naturally. It's never come naturally to me; I have to work at it. I love how driving gives me independence to go wherever I want to, and since I didn't get a car until I was almost 23 (the dearly departed Pearl), I definitely appreciate not having to bum for rides or having to share a vehicle with my parents. But I hate everything else that comes along with driving-traffic, yielding, making sure you don't do something idiotic to wreck your vehicle. I've come a long way from where from where I used to be; I used to be so afraid of driving that I refused to drive on the freeways in my hometown. Now I have no problem jumping on the highway to go home to my family, who are hours away.
But one difficulty remains: I hate having to find new places. Any adventurous spirit I may have evaporates as soon as I open Google Maps. I hate using maps and I dread getting lost. It's a waste of time and it's a pain in the ass. But since I live in a new, bigger city, I don't have the luxury of knowing where I'm going like I did at home.
I think some entity is trying to give me a message to stop being so negative about this, because today I a. found out I have to go in for random drug testing tomorrow, b. had to deliver documents to an agency, c. got a dinner invite from my aunt, and d. decided to go running with a group of people. All at locations I've never been to before. I got lost, of course, when I was trying to find my way to the agency, but it wasn't as bad as the last time that I got lost, because at least this time I found myself in a familiar location. I get a stupid feeling of pride everytime I venture out into another part of the city, where I can mentally check off in my head an area I explored and (kind of) conquered.
Speaking of my aunt: I am really bad about keeping in touch with people outside of my immediate family. I came to terms with this today, so I emailed my grandparents and aunt, who both live relatively close to me (20-30 minutes). My aunt sent an enthusiastic message back, kindly inviting me over her house on Saturday for dinner with her, my uncle, and my little cousins. I'm so excited. I haven't seen my cousins for a long time (they are 3.5-year-old fraternal twins).
So today I decided to join a running group. They meet up at an area that's ridiculously close to work, so it would have been silly for me not to go. I really, really, really enjoyed it. I can't run with my dad all the time, so I needed to find a group of people who would motivate me. I go through phases with my running. There have been times in my life where I was really good, and then times where I burnout and suck at it. The last time I was really good was when I was 19 and doing marathon training, so I want to get back into the shape I was in then. I have a hard time running outside of my comfort level on my own, but if I run with a group of people, I become more competitive and push myself more. We did drills before working out. The coach divided the trails into short and long workouts. "People who are new to this group, you may want to do the short workout," he said. Haughtily, I thought, "I've been running since I was 8. I am not a beginner." So I set off for the "long" route, which was three 1-mile loops.
It. kicked. my. ass.
So, my legs were already sore from Sunday's run and a workout yesterday, and this is all trail running, something I haven't done since I was in Virginia. Plus, there were little "hills" to conquer, and at home, my route is as flat as Kansas. At least I had no qualms about being one of the slower ones in the group. Just you wait, people, until I get more speed under my belt. But I don't have to prove anything to anyone right now. I think I could have pushed it a little harder because once I stopped, I felt okay; this means I need to get my mental strength in shape as well. So that's something to work on. I have no idea how fast I was going, because I left my stopwatch at home. But I'm so excited that I have a group of really, really good runners to train with. It'll take awhile but one day I want to be running as fast as they are. I made that same vow before at sixteen, when I was getting back into running and was in bad shape. I wanted to run as fast as my dad did, and I did it. Now I can keep up with him. I'm confident that I'll get in shape as long as I keep on training.
Man, it's already almost 9:30. I'm going to go relax. I really want to head to sleep earlier. This time has me all messed up; I don't feel tired until about midnight.
