thoughts & things

I wish I had something really thoughtful and clever to share, but alas. I do not.

Instead, I will delight you with thoughts that run through my head as I watch the next-to-last episode of this season's Project Runway.

Pinterest is taking over my life. But unlike Facebook, it's actually been really productive. Instead of perusing album after album of my friends pictures, I'm bookmarking cute ideas and new recipes and then-- here's the good part!-- I'm actually DOING them. I had this big plan to upload pictures and do a very bloggy-blog about recipes and projects with step by step instructions and so on, but I'm like the world's laziest picture uploader... so... we'll see if that ever comes to fruition. In the meantime, I've gotten a thousand pictures of mini Twix cheesecakes on my phone just waiting for the opportunity to be blogged. I have at least gone back and made comments on the recipes I've made (with lots and lots of help from Boyfriend, who actually really enjoys tag teaming a meal, a trait he gets from his lovely parents) so that re-pinners can learn from my experiments. For instance, this will come as a shock, but... the mini cheesecakes would have been better with full-fat cream cheese.

I did circuit training tonight because-- duh-- I'm eating mini cheesecakes on the weekends-- and it nearly killed me. I fully expect to be crippled by morning. If you're unfamiliar with circuit training, it's basically five different moves for 30 seconds each with no rest in between, rest 20 second, repeat two more times. We'll call that a block. Then you jog for 30 seconds, run for 30 seconds for 5 minutes. Then it's back to a different block with the same formula: 5 moves, 30 seconds each, no rest in between until all five moves are complete.... and back to the jog-run switcheroo. You get the drift. You do 3 circuits of workout blocks and 5-minute cardio blocks. Then I hit the elliptical for 25 minutes because last week's episode of Project Runway had come on and I didn't want to leave it and I didn't want to just sit in my sweat. And believe me-- I'm a sweater. Girls that can work out and still have a bouncy-beautiful ponytail just disgust me. When I'm done working out, I have strings of wet hair sticking to my neck and a bun on top of my head that's dripping. Cute, huh?

I talked to Alex about being a "running couple" one day. He vetoed that idea. I'm thinking it has to do with the sweat problem...

I subbed today and actually got to teach, which is rare for a sub, and I loved it. Loved. It. Usually, we subs are stuck with a video and a worksheet. Well, today was no exception, but by the time 7th period rolled around, the projector and the VCR were no longer speaking for whatever reason. As luck would have it, the subject matter was something of a specialty of mine.
My dad and I have always been very into sci-fi/fantasy kind of stuff, much to my mother's chagrin and a lifetime of eye rolls. So it's no surprise that Greek mythology has always been a big part of the literature of my life. And today I got the chance to actually teach a class about something that's really interesting (when appreciated as literature-- don't freak out). And for one of the first times in a teaching situation, I really felt like I connected with the students. They were engaged, they asked questions, they put the pieces together. It was fantastic-- a truly proud moment for me. For a split second, I considered that I should pursue (yet another) degree in secondary education. Fortunately, it occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to only teach the things I'm interested in, so that dream ended there.. But maybe I'll land a guest speaking gig from time to time.


When I got home from the gym, my dad had brought me dinner from Gunter's Landing, including a fantastic French onion soup and their signature salad, and-- drum roll, please-- a chocolate covered apple. I mean, hello-- could I be more spoiled? It was pretty much the perfect way to end my day-- my favorite pajama pants, my giant armchair, delicious dinner and a delightful dessert (I saved half for breakfast tomorrow!), and my favorite reality TV-- ahhhh, I wish everyday could be so good.

And now, after a long day of teaching and a hard work out, I'm going to reward myself with some pinning and then hit the hay. And I won't be mad if I'm snoozing by 10.