About as creative as it's title

Obviously, I have fallen off the running wagon. I won't bore you with why and whatnot, and to be perfectly honest, I'm not totally sure what I'd say.
However, I have been trying to be active in other ways. This morning, my mom and I went for 3 mile walk, and we did it less than an hour. Yipeee.

I watched "High School Musical" yesterday. Yes, it was voluntarily; I wanted to see what all the hype was about. Is this Zac Efron character really such a hottie to make into trashy mags? So, yes, I watched it. I watched it so that you don't have to. Because you don't want to. High School Musical is about as creative as it's title; it's basically a sugar coated Disney version of "Grease" - on crack. I mean, the main cool guy (aka - Zac Efron, whom I still don't see what the big deal is about either) and the geeky girl (who they don't even try to make "geeky" with some fake glasses or something. Honest to god, they put a book in her hands in her first scene and from then on she's super stylish beauty who does math) they don't even kiss. The whole movie. Not once. They kiss on the cheek and they sing. Maybe they kissed in the final dance scene and I missed it cuz I was so bored with it at that point, but I'm pretty sure it's just that one kiss on the cheek. I'd say I'm still interested in "High School Musical 2" just to wonder if where it could possibly go from here.

Near 90 at Midnight

Saturday June 7, 2008
2.4 miles
weather: 83 degrees, feels like 88

Let me tell you, when weather.com says "feels like 88" they are not kidding. I put off my run last night for several reasons, but the lamest of them being that I was hoping it would cool off by tonight. No such luck. You think with the sun having been down for several hours that the heat might have gone with it. But nope, it was 11 pm and still near the 90s. Just made the cold shower at the end of a humid run all the more rewarding I guess.

Twilight & Choke

Scene: The Youth Services Desk, Susan and I huddled around the computer watching the new "Twilight" movie trailer.

Me: I think they've made Edward look a lot more, I dunno, kinda bookish or nerdy looking than I remember him in the book
Susan: Yea, he's kinda got that IT department hipster guy look
Me: That's just what I need - a nerdy IT department hipster guy. Whose also a vampire.


Truth be told, after having read two of the three books in the series, I'm not really a huge Edward Cullen fan. When the conversation between Susan and I actually turned to the movie, I asked her what someone would wear to a midnight showing of Twilight? I mean, the whole point - of so many vampire books really - is that "they walk among us" and all, they blend in. Whatda ya gonna do, paint you're face pale and go to the show? But this is just a side track from my original point, that I said to Susan, which was that if I went to the midnight showing it would be in a t-shirt that said "Bella can keep Edward, I'll take Jacob." Essentially - what girl needs a vampire and eternal life when she could have passion and a werewolf?
God, ya gotta love the Young Adult Fantasty genre for even putting that sentence into my blog in the first place....

Oh, also, speaking of trailers: the new one for "Choke" came out. I'm thinking I'm gonna have to read the book before the movie comes out, because everyone I know whose read the book has said "My god, how are they even going to be able to make that kind of perversion into a movie. I mean, it was a good book, but can you even make that into a movie and not, ya know, not offend the world?" - or something to that effect. But to be honest, I'm a little scared of Chuck Palahnuik, the guy who wrote it. Mostly because everyone that has ever read him says he's got one sick mind; brilliant, but twisted. And we all know I can be more than a little squeamish. Still, I loved Fight Club, I love Sam Rockwell & Angelica Houston (who star in the movie), the trailer looks great, and I keep thinking I'll be a better reader if I just bit the bullet and read some Palahnuik. If anyone's got a better one to start with than "Choke" let me know.

Inertia

I swear to god, I can't even really tell you how or why I just ran. I had an absurdly long and odd day, and will tomorrow too (well, at leas the long part will happen tomorrow) and by all accounts I should have just gone straight home, stuffed myself silly with bad-for-me food on the way, and gone straight to bed.
But instead, I went to Jewel, got some vegetables to eat with hummus with tomorrow - then to meijer for sushi because I wasn't gonna deny that I did want to eat something.
From there, to home, to in my running clothes and on to a run.
I honest to god think it was just inertia pulling me a long. I had the kind of day where I got some things done, but it took me the most round about way to get them accomplished, and had it been straight-forward I probably would have actually gotten all the I needed to accomplished. However, that was not the case and it was a very bizzare day. But whatever, intertia kept me moving. And hopefully it'll get me through to the end of the week too. Which I cannot wait for. But for now -

Wednesday June 4
2.4 miles
& got to watch light show thunder storm to the south and west throughout run

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I was very cranky this evening. I've become such a workaholic that I don't know what to do with free time, and in the blanket of possibilities that lay before me in unscheduled hours I crack under the pressure of choice. And that makes me cranky.
I did finish a hat I was making though, although the decrease at the top was really difficult and added to my crankyness. But it's done, looks amazing and is the hardest pattern I've ever made. Now I can move on to making one for the person's spouse that this hat is for.
Besides finishing a hat, I also went for a run. A very late night run (the hat took way longer than antcipated) but I went.
And it was awesome. Such a fantastic run. Was great to have the roads to myself too - I saw one lady walking her dog, and more cops cruising around than I could keep track of.
I may regret this tomorrow morning, as this week's schedule may prove to be an especially sleep-depriving one, but if I get to bed in the next two minutes, I can still get a semi-reasonable amount of sleep. So, ciao!

Monday, June 2, 2008
2.4 miles

Summer & Sex in the City

I dunno if it was simply having spent the afternoon seeing the Sex in the City movie with my mom, or if it was actually having eaten good-for-me food all day - but I was in a such a good mood that I wasn't completely dreading my run. I wasn't stoked, but I didn't have to totally kick my own ass to go. And, I think I ran at a pretty good speed for most of it too - although I still won't tell you how long it does take me to run two & half miles, because I'm pretty sure by running standards that it's a long time. But whatever, it was a really good run. Not too hot, not too cold, one that I could pat myself on the back for.

Sunday June 1, 2008
2.4 miles

I won't spoil anything for those of you who haven't seen the movie, but I did think it was pretty fantastic. I laughed, I cried, I wanted to wear heels; everything I love about SITC and the charcters in it. And that's all I'll say till the movie's been out a little longer.

Not much else is new, just getting into the swing of summer. Working hard, feeling pretty grateful about my paychecks. I was paying bills today, and reminding myself to hold on to this feeling as long as possible. Because it was only months ago that I would get one bill paid and just hope I figured something out until the next one came up. So to be able to not put bills on my credit card or borrow from my parents feels pretty amazing, and I feel really greatful every time I am able to even write a check.
Im also just loving that I am able to work during the week and then gett into the city at least once a weekend to hang out with different people. One weekend out with the girls and their family, the next getting fortunes told & drinks at the top of the skyscapers, this weekend it was a dinner party with the next generation of librarians. I am begining to love my very own SITC story: Summer in the City.