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| The jingle from the radio station I listen to here ends in this woman belting out "Roanoke!!!" and I just randomly sang it.
This morning I was checking my email and I absentmindedly sang "Nationwide is on your side" in an artificially happy voice, like in the commercial.
Conclusion: I am brainwashed by the advertising media. At least it's a nice day outside. Sun. High 84. I have a paper due at 1 that I finished last night, so the day's agenda follows: handing in, Christine Schutt reading at 2pm, homework reading from An Exaltation of Forms all day.
And today is dessert day! Normally, it's Thursday, but yesterday the cafe's desserts were subpar. So I decided it was better to reward myself with dessert after my paper was turned in. I'm looking forward to something chocolate...
"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?"
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| This was a great novel, set in present-day Ireland. I started it last night at 10pm, said screw my homework, and finished it before dinner today.
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
---Sir Thomas Browne
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| It's only the 5th, but I'm already tired of them.
Good news, a week ago, I bumped up my workout to 45 minutes on the elliptical. I am making the effort to drink 8 glasses a water a day. I put 8 pennies on my desk, next to my water bottle. Every time I drink a glass, I move a penny to the other side of the bottle. It's actually kinda fulfilling, moving those pennies back and forth.
I'm writing a story inspired by the summer I worked at Payless. The writing is going okay, but definitely not fabulously easy. I've got 10 pages so far.
My friend asked me to go to this "no shame" thing downtown last night at 11. I said I didn't really want to go. She asked if it was because 11 was too late for me. She was just teasing, but I was thinking - how am I going to get up at 8ish to go to the gym at 9ish if I don't get back until after 1? I'm getting old.
Rain in the forecast all day. I want some sun!
"True friends stab you in the front."
---Oscar Wilde
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| "The belief that you have to lose weight before you can start living the life you want only keeps you from creating that life right now." ---an article on SparkPeople.com
I said 'uh oh' because this sounds like me. The life that I want is fantastic clothes that I just don't have the body for right now. The goal is also to be secure in my weight range by September 1st, but it's not like life starts September 1st. I guess I just need to keep this quote in mind.
This week in Virginia has been beautiful. A Pulitzer prize for poetry winner came and had a reading on Thursday. It's my professor from last semester's daughter, so he was especially proud. There were good grapes at the reception. Yum. Yesterday I drove all around Roanoke for my environment job. It was nice to see more of the town for the first time. I found out that the beautiful yellow/orange brick Gothic style building that I can see from 581 is a church. It's just as beautiful close up. I also found out that the gas station a mile from my apartment really is the cheapest gas station. Yay!
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
---Johann von Goethe
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| I came across this line as part of someone's signature in an online forum. I think it's a good philosophy, a good way to get out of the "box" I am always trying to get out of, to try new things, all of that. Of course, it can be taken the wrong way, but don't worry, I'm not going to get on 81 and see how fast my car can go, jump off a roof, etc.
I got back to VA on Easter Sunday. The drive was alright. It was a sunny day, not too windy, didn't hit any traffic jams. I was sad that I didn't get to go to church though. I think this is the first time in my life I haven't been to church on Easter. Instead I listened to some Bebe Winans gospel and a random Christian rock station. My mom snuck some chocolates into the car. I have a huge weakness for chocolates. I ate 5 of them when I got back and unpacked. Since then, I've managed to keep it down to 2 a day.
I did homework over spring break, so I'm ahead, which is a really great feeling. I exercised this morning, which made me feel better. I did slack off for 4 days over break though, which showed. I did my regular 20 mins on the step machine and 20 on the elliptical, but when I went to do strength training, my body decided it wasn't happening. I actually felt like throwing up after a couple sets with 10lb weights, so I stopped, sat down, and did those side to side crunch-things, which made me feel better immediately. And for the first time, I'm up to 100! Yay!
My roommate comes back some time tonight. I painted my toenails the color red red. I love red toenails. They make me inexplicably happy.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
---Martin Luther King, Jr.
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