Archive for March, 2007

My body sort of always hurts. I can’t think of a time in the past 6 months when I’ve gotten out of bed in the morning and jumped in the shower without feeling sore somewhere. This is the good sort of sore though—the kind that feels incredible to stretch out. Regardless, sometimes I wonder what it would be like to roll out of bed and feel like a hundred bucks, instead of ninety-nine…

Though I don’t really remember all the weights I normally do off the top of my head, I do know that I’m up to doing 3×8 sets of 120 on the bench. Thankfully, I’m maintaining weight, which has been my biggest goal throughout the running training. I’ve been scaling down the running just a tad to give my body more time to do the subtle repairs that are required. The big muscles have swollen and re-toned themselves quite a bit, but I’m still convinced that the biggest differences lie in the little muscles that only get notice when they get pulled.

Work has been going well. I uninstalled GoogleTalk, and logged off GoogleChat entirely. The slight increase in productivity is nice. Now I don’t feel as bad about leaving work early, because I know I’ve been more efficient.

This Friday, I’m visiting CU Boulder’s Applied Maths department and I’m really really pumped. I don’t know what to expect or what to wear, but they’ve promised me a schedule of events by today, so that should be sweet. Hopefully I will be done with that adventure relatively early and I can go see 300 on Friday night. I am really pumped about that movie, since Gates of Fire is so incendiary to my motivation, drive, ambition, values…everything; the book truly sets me ablaze.

I haven’t seen Jen in a while. She was over last Friday and I visited her when she was sick on Monday, but those two times were so short. Friday was frustrating, but I can’t really articulate why. Monday was nice, but she looked very fragile in her infirmity, and I didn’t want to squeeze her too hard because she felt soft as if she might break. I keep doing mental double-takes when I realize that I miss being around her.

Brandon has been dominating exams hard recently, so we haven’t had much Civ IV – Warlords time of late. However, we started a game the other night, and I’m convinced we were on the road to winning it. Brandon, I know you’ll read this, so let’s finish that game and do our victory pushups soon. And the sweet new highfive.

All said, life is good. GUSF stuff has slowed down, for which I am thankful. Wash U is on spring break next week, and hopefully I’ll see a few face I’ve not seen in a while when they tour through Denver on their way to skiing. Can’t wait!