Category Archives: Food

Star Trek. Running.

Posted on 21 November 2009 | Leave a comment

I woke up this morning and realized that I didn’t have to do anything today that I didn’t want to do.

I started out by running five miles. Since I have been so busy lately, I have been slacking with running, as you can tell by looking at the exercise I list at the bottom of each day’s post. Today, I made up for it. The run felt so good, even when it hurt. My lungs burned with the too cool air, and my legs ached with stiffness, but I finished the run. Sometimes I forget how good it feels just to accomplish something like that. Maybe this is why I don’t mind coming in last at races. I just want to finish.

Tonight, I watched the new Star Trek, and I thought it was pretty good. I don’t really like Star Trek, the movies or the series. I did love Deep Space Nine when it was on, but the rest of them seemed silly. I think this is because my mom used to watch the old series whenever it was on. I remember the only one I liked was “The Trouble with Tribbles,” and I only liked it because the Tribbles were so stinking cute. I wanted one for a pet, I think.

I leaned more toward Space:1999. I wanted to be Mia, so I could shape-shift into whatever animal I wanted to be. Right now I want to change into a koala bear. Then I could lounge around, eat, and sleep. Or maybe I could be a tiger, so I could run really fast and have a cool orange and black striped coat. I am not Mia, though, so I will just remain solely human and move slowly like a sloth, but I will keep moving.

Food: oatmeal, chocolate milk, frozen burrito thing, black bean burger with lettuce, tomato, pickle, thousand island, broccoli salad, a few tator tots, strawberries with whipped cream

Exercise: walked the dogs two miles, ran five miles, rode bike from RB to home

It Surprises Me.

Posted on 20 November 2009 | Leave a comment

It surprises me that some things ignite great discussion, even when they seem trivial or mundane. Particularly, when posting a strange status on Facebook about vampires, homosexuals, and uber-conservative Christians, I had no idea the response I would get. The responses were a toss up among people making sure that I knew they weren’t “those” Christians, people who got the joke, and I am sure people who were deep down offended but didn’t want to admit it. I just think it is weird. Some of the same people who won’t read Harry Potter because it is about magic, who don’t believe in abortion because it is murder, who would shit if they knew the person sitting next to them was gay, are the people who purchase midnight tickets to see a movie about vampires and werewolves. That does not make sense. It confuses me, but I don’t want to dwell on it. The post was good fodder for comments, and I had fun reading them.

This week wrapped up nicely. I am pleased.

Exercise: rode bike to RB from home, walked to Burris and back to RB

Food: banana; milk; Clif bar; apple; hot chocolate; black bean burger with mushrooms, peanut butter, jalapenos, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomatoes; waffle fries; a few dill chips, sprite, decaf coffee

Not Much To Say

Posted on 19 November 2009 | 2 comments

I don’t have much to say, so I am not going to try to make things up. I have a headache, and I am looking forward to the weekend. For the first weekend since school started, we have nothing planned. What bliss! Nothing. I am finished with almost all of my grading, except Burris, so I have the whole weekend and all of break to work on my dissertation proposal. Sometimes having nothing to do is such a blessing! I get to run as far as I want on both Saturday and Sunday!

Exercise: Walked to Burris from RB and back

Food: banana, juice, Clif bar, latte, egg salad sandwich, bbq chips, apple, two pieces of Papa Murphy’s pizza, slice of bread, two small dips of ice cream with honey drizzled over them

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Too Much To Do. Not Enough Time To Do It.

Posted on 18 November 2009 | Leave a comment

I swear I am always finding myself with too much to do and not enough time to do it in. If I ever catch up during the school year, it will be a mighty miracle. I get behind shortly after the school year starts, spend Winter Break catching up with stuff I should already have finished, and then careen toward summer, hoping to find some time for rest during those couple of months. Rest, of course, equals mental rest, because summer is time for physical labor. It feels good to work in the hot sun. Right now it would feel good to run, even one mile! Once I get this little bit of work I am working on finished for tomorrow and Friday, I get a bit of reprieve over Thanksgiving Break. Then I only have to work on my school stuff, and I don’t have to work on grading anything! Wait, I will Burris reflections to grade. Damn. I always get prematurely excited.

Exercise: walked the dogs 3 miles, rode my bike to Burris from RB then home

Food: banana, juice, small hot chocolate, Clif bar, apple, bun, tea, pizza, a few chocolates

Healing. Grading. Too Many Sweets, Not Enough Exercise.

Posted on 17 November 2009 | 1 comment

I am enjoying Gayl Jones’ The Healing and looking forward to meeting with Debbie to talk about my dissertation. I think I like and dislike The Healing for the same reason: the stream of consciousness is both beautiful and unnerving. I am tired of the repetition, but I am drawn in by it. Of course, I am only on page 16, so I will let you know tomorrow night how the book plays out. I can already tell, though, that it will fit well, at least for background or supplementary material, for my dissertation. There is a whirlwind of religion, spirituality, healing, redemption, slavery, and sexuality all swirling around together. I am excited to see how it plays out.

I still have a few papers to grade, ones that were turned in late. For the most part, I am pleased with their argument papers, and I look forward to seeing their multimodal presentations. Some papers need a bit of work, but that is what revision is for. In fact, that is why I switched to using portfolios. I wanted my students to recognize that their “final” draft isn’t really final, that writing can always be revised, improved upon, moved closer to perfection.

I feel like a slug. I have eaten too many sweets in the past couple of days and not done any substantial exercise. I was supposed to run five miles on Saturday, but I graded papers instead. I was supposed to run the same five miles on Sunday, but I graded instead. And, I have been grading both mornings this week instead of running. Basically, I feel horrible because I have eaten way too much crap and not done one little bit of exercise to offset it. Tomorrow morning I will walk the dogs with Bec and I will run.

I had coffee last night with my friend, Lyn, and I worked yesterday morning with my friend, Molly. If I could be around the two of them everyday, I would never have a bad day. What magical women!

The making of a slug. Or, I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.

Exercise: walked to Burris from RB, rode bike back to RB

Food: banana, apple, swiss cheese sandwich, orange/tangerine juice, too many M&Ms, one piece of pizza, three breadsticks, PBJ Uncrustable, Jones Cream Soda