Dammit!

I picked the worst possible week to begin a new plan -- who the hell leaves 100 papers to grade until the last minute and then leaves town for a conference?! Okay, I shouldn't act so surprised. Anyway...I start anew tomorrow morning.

Oh yeah, and I'm going back to my (mostly) vegetarian lifestyle to boot.

Stay tuned.

Best Laid Plans...

Okay, so the plan to have a whole entire mix every Monday was, shall we say, a little ambitious? Not to worry, I do have one in the works for next week...which *might* be leaning more toward Valentine's Day than working out, though I've heard there are those who can combine the two. *ahem*

In the meantime, I've served up a new video and quote in the usual places...and you can also chew on this:



It's an odd little gem for this space, but it's making me smile these days. More on THAT later. ;D

Back to the books! (Oh yeah...have I mentioned how much I am LOVING school this semester? It might be my Valentine...)

Best Excuse Ever

I know, I know...it's been so long. But I have been a busy student-bee all month, and today I got my first paper back. I'm only posting this here because I really can't share this with any of my local peeps, as you will soon see.

Also, it's a big deal to me because I've been seriously doubting why the admissions committee let me in, certain I would be exposed as a fraud sooner rather than later...and this paper would be the first flake in the snowball of my demise. (Here's the deal: I kinda found a way to work Madonna song titles into the headings of a paper about early American and European social theory -- we're talkin' Marxism, folks. Yeah, I called Karl Marx the "original Material Girl"). See why I was worried?

Anyway, here's the first sentence in the comments:
"This was a fantastic essay -- perhaps the best of this round of papers."

Aw, crap. I think I just pulled something patting myself on the back.

Um...I'd like to say marathon training has been going as well. I've only been playing ultimate sporadically and squeezing in some mid-length runs on the weekends. Oh yeah, and I skipped the half-marathon in Des Moines because I was working on another paper. But as of today, I'm all training, baby.

*storm clouds gather*
*recipe for injury brewing*
*swollen head on the verge of explosion*