63.7 miles: Good things about today

1) Was productive.

2) Called grandma.

3) First Zip-trip!

4) My awesome lab mates, who not only are moving office to make room for my experiment, but came to help me out in a pinch.

5) Sushi for dinner.

63.7 miles: Today was good...

1) I got to begin building things in the lab! [Assemble a unistrut structure.]

2) We (the guys and I) moved around furniture in/around one of the new offices.

3) Long teatime & talk with my roommate. :)

63.7 miles: How are you?

1) MC came to visit this weekend! And I think he enjoyed his stay :)

2) I ran 4 miles last Thursday at the gym; it was highly satisfying!

3) I got a bunch of books at the library book sale on the US education system (from elementary school through college). It's one of the subjects I never seem to be able to learn enough about. (Passion?)

4) I finally cleaned off my desk!

5) I had a 90-some minute phone conversation with Z about interesting things. Prompted in part by me spontaneously writing an essay at 11PM about immigration, and asking for her response/input. Parts of it will be posted later, when it's more refined.

And, because this is actually a seriously bad thing that I am quite sad about, a bad thing that happened is:

1) Carmons, the delicious crepe/French restaurant in downtown, closed on Saturday. :( I didn't know so I didn't even get to go one last time. I found out Sunday.

59.7 miles: Today was good

1) Got to look at office options for my lab; everyone basically agreed on one option, with windows (including me). [This is particularly good because once we move people into the office, I can start building in the lab.]

2) Got a bunch of annoying little tasks done.

3) There was no tornado here.

4) Raspberries were $1.99 at Country Market (I got 2).

5) I ate well.

59.7 miles: The Positivity Project

So...while some of my friends and readers may be convinced that overall I'm a pretty positive person, I feel like lately anytime I'm asked "what's up" or "how was your day" I focus on something negative and/or find a "but" in an overall positive event. This sucks, in part because it's a vicious cycle (the more I focus on the negative the more I get myself down, the more I see negative things, etc) Therefore, it needs to stop. To help myself stop, for an undefined (as yet) period of time, I will be posting at least one positive thing per day [I might not post every day, but I'll find something positive to say about each missed day.] To start, I will (positively) answer three questions on everyone's mind:

What's been up lately (last week)?

1) KL came to visit!

2) I got to play hands and feet!

3) I took a nap! (Several, actually.)

4) I cleaned my room/did laundry/went grocery shopping!

How was your weekend?

1) I saw Green Lantern, which was fun.

2) I got 5 new (used) books at the library.

3) I replenished my black tea supply.

4) I ate an eclair from Pekara (and it was delicious!)

5) I enjoyed my freshly-cleaned room and my new books (and my TV).

How was your day?

1) I woke up to find a small dog following me around the kitchen. He was cute. I later found out his name was Spiderman.

2) I went for a 2.7 mile run in spite of skipping almost 2 weeks (le gasp!).

3) My almost-no-battery MP3 player survived the entire 40 minute run!

48.0 miles: Best Running Song EVER (end of Month 1!)

Caught up on Make It or Break It today. [ABC Family show about gymnasts. Laugh if you want, but watching shows about sports makes me want to do sports. Which is good for running motivation ;)]

Not the point: The most recent episode ended with a song that instantly got adopted to my running library: One More by Superchic[k].

It's interesting because this past week I have been thinking, this is my approach to increasing my distance! I go just one more block...or just one more block in each direction...and suddenly I've run 3 miles instead of 2! :)

Other lessons, or strategies learned? I learned I can run much better without music than I thought. That I can convince myself to run in the morning :) That my best runs happen when I'm distracted; when I'm daydreaming, usually.

Goals for next month: Run 4-5 times a week, not 3-4 as happened this month. I mean, aim for 5, 4 is an absolute minimum. Also, hydrate better! I also aim to finish 105 miles by June 30.

So, "Got 100 steps to go| Tonight I'll make it 99" Or rather, tomorrow I finish my first 50 miles! In just a little over a month! :D