63.7 miles: Fantastic Weekend

I'm quite certain I don't need the positivity project to feel good about this weekend/trip to Chicago.

1) Awesome evening of dinner + wine + Doctor Who.

2) Violet Hour.

3) Seeing people (MC, JB, KL, CW, LG!)

4) Bagpipes on parade!

5) Beach!

6) Fireworks!

Also, day off, cooking, good foods, late-night dessert at Clarkes, etc. etc.

And something.

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: 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!