Personal frustration: my knee hurts. It has been hurting since Sunday's long run. Now lunging creates soreness. I might not train for the MCM. Yet more healing time is needed.
Happiness: Reading "Hamlet." My 11th graders asked to read it for our last novel of the year, and since the 12th grade teacher isn't planning to teach it, I heartily agreed. I love "Hamlet" - it's my favorite Shakespeare play.
Personal irritation: I am so tired of getting my hopes up only to see them crashing down (one case in point: see personal frustration). I have no place in which to direct my frustration except at myself, which is not good. Sometimes I think I have too many pipe dreams and become upset when the pipe travels further away from reality. Sometimes I wish I weren't as emotional. While I seem pretty straightfaced on the outside, trust me, my internal emotions work overtime. Sometimes I wish I were more stony, more of an icy person. Sometimes, actually oftentimes, I wish I were recluse, left alone with my books and journals.
But upon further thought, I might be PMSing, which makes sense because my emotions turn into rollercoasters for a couple of days.
I might not post for a few days.
Back to "Hamlet"...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Easter Sightings at Memorial Park
Ahh, the cool weather approached like a hot air balloon on a clear day: surprising and not altogether unwelcome. And how did I spend this cool Easter morning? At Memorial Park.
What was spotted around noon at MP:
1) Me! I was jogging! I completed 10 miles - 9.4 of jogging, .6 of walking/cool down. My weekly total is 19 miles, which is the most I've done in almost 4 months. I tried hard for 10, but my longest long run has been a mere 6, and my knee didn't like the large leap in mileage. At 9 miles, my knee started twinging. At 9.3, my knee starting pinging (that's what I call the blips of pain with each step). At 9.4 I decided to not hurt myself and I walked back to my car. Next weekend I should be up to 10 on my weekly long runs. Soon I hope to be up to 13 and I want to maintain 13 until the end of July, in which I'll slowly start adding miles until I'm up to 18 on my long runs.
2) A strange man running in a Speedo-type bottom. And he should not have been wearing a Speedo-type bottom. (a) It was too tiny (b) he was not a small man and (c) it was dark brown and matched his skin so from a distance it looked as if he were naked.
3) A homeless woman walking straight into a brushy area at the corner of Memorial and Shepherd. As I approached the brushy area, I couldn't figure out where he disappeared to. There were no paths to the bayou.
4) Lots of dead earthworms. It rained yesterday.
5) Lots of mud.
6) The same homeless person walking in the median of Memorial. She's as stealthy as a ninja.
7) Lots of families taking gentle walks.
Overall, very pleasant experience.
The rest of my Easter will be spent in Pearland (with my family at my sister's) and Clear Lake (I'm staying the night at the Bride's since I have a very important appointment in that area at 7am).
And since today marks the end of Lent, allow me to celebrate. For the past 40 days I have had no fast food, no candy, no cookies, no cake, no chocolate. And I decided to have chocolate today: in the form of a gu at mile 6. :) Now I'm going to see how long I can last not having the rest of the stuff (challenge!).
Cheers!
What was spotted around noon at MP:
1) Me! I was jogging! I completed 10 miles - 9.4 of jogging, .6 of walking/cool down. My weekly total is 19 miles, which is the most I've done in almost 4 months. I tried hard for 10, but my longest long run has been a mere 6, and my knee didn't like the large leap in mileage. At 9 miles, my knee started twinging. At 9.3, my knee starting pinging (that's what I call the blips of pain with each step). At 9.4 I decided to not hurt myself and I walked back to my car. Next weekend I should be up to 10 on my weekly long runs. Soon I hope to be up to 13 and I want to maintain 13 until the end of July, in which I'll slowly start adding miles until I'm up to 18 on my long runs.
2) A strange man running in a Speedo-type bottom. And he should not have been wearing a Speedo-type bottom. (a) It was too tiny (b) he was not a small man and (c) it was dark brown and matched his skin so from a distance it looked as if he were naked.
3) A homeless woman walking straight into a brushy area at the corner of Memorial and Shepherd. As I approached the brushy area, I couldn't figure out where he disappeared to. There were no paths to the bayou.
4) Lots of dead earthworms. It rained yesterday.
5) Lots of mud.
6) The same homeless person walking in the median of Memorial. She's as stealthy as a ninja.
7) Lots of families taking gentle walks.
Overall, very pleasant experience.
The rest of my Easter will be spent in Pearland (with my family at my sister's) and Clear Lake (I'm staying the night at the Bride's since I have a very important appointment in that area at 7am).
And since today marks the end of Lent, allow me to celebrate. For the past 40 days I have had no fast food, no candy, no cookies, no cake, no chocolate. And I decided to have chocolate today: in the form of a gu at mile 6. :) Now I'm going to see how long I can last not having the rest of the stuff (challenge!).
Cheers!
Monday, April 02, 2007
Play Time Over
Who am I kidding? I don't have time to play. Hell, I barely have time to breath.
Now that a great deal of pressure is off of my shoulders, I'm starting to relax. Sort of.
Rodeo: It's over. No more rehearsal, no more evenings out. I miss it, but it's nice to have my evenings to myself again.
The play: It's over. I've been the director of our one-act play for competition. It was the kids' first acting experience, it was the first bit of directing I've done in ten years, we have no set and no props and no costumes (so everything was done by me). Knowing all of that, I'm ok that we didn't advance, but I'm ecstatic that two of my kids got acting recognitions. They had a blast, I had fun (although it sucked up A LOT of my time), but thankfully it's over. I also learned that I like the acting part much more than the directing - I'm too much of a control freak and it drove me insane when my students didn't project or face out or anything that I told them to do (and they got marked on it in their critiques). But it's all good.
Running: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Last week was a don't. I've been pulling 11 hour days at school and just don't have the energy after that much working/teenagers. But now that rehearsals are over, I have more time. And I'll have more time after the TAKS is over. And I AM going to sign up for the MCM. I need something to train for/goal to reach. I just want to beat the bridge again. That's my goal.
School: Thank God we only have 6 weeks left. The kids are out of control. My stress level is rising each day (at this rate I figure I'll have a stroke by the end of the semester). And I cannot wait until the TAKS and EOC exam is over!
Reading: I finished a fantastic book - "The Bookseller of Kabul." Really, it was quite good! I highly recommend it. I'm working on another one called "The Historian" and wish I had more time to delve into it.
Now that those things are over, I hope to spend more time on ME. I need to catch up!
Cheers!
Now that a great deal of pressure is off of my shoulders, I'm starting to relax. Sort of.
Rodeo: It's over. No more rehearsal, no more evenings out. I miss it, but it's nice to have my evenings to myself again.
The play: It's over. I've been the director of our one-act play for competition. It was the kids' first acting experience, it was the first bit of directing I've done in ten years, we have no set and no props and no costumes (so everything was done by me). Knowing all of that, I'm ok that we didn't advance, but I'm ecstatic that two of my kids got acting recognitions. They had a blast, I had fun (although it sucked up A LOT of my time), but thankfully it's over. I also learned that I like the acting part much more than the directing - I'm too much of a control freak and it drove me insane when my students didn't project or face out or anything that I told them to do (and they got marked on it in their critiques). But it's all good.
Running: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Last week was a don't. I've been pulling 11 hour days at school and just don't have the energy after that much working/teenagers. But now that rehearsals are over, I have more time. And I'll have more time after the TAKS is over. And I AM going to sign up for the MCM. I need something to train for/goal to reach. I just want to beat the bridge again. That's my goal.
School: Thank God we only have 6 weeks left. The kids are out of control. My stress level is rising each day (at this rate I figure I'll have a stroke by the end of the semester). And I cannot wait until the TAKS and EOC exam is over!
Reading: I finished a fantastic book - "The Bookseller of Kabul." Really, it was quite good! I highly recommend it. I'm working on another one called "The Historian" and wish I had more time to delve into it.
Now that those things are over, I hope to spend more time on ME. I need to catch up!
Cheers!
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