So running has been a part of my life for a long time.  In fact, I wanted to run track in high school (and did in middle school) but my mom pointed out that it interfered too much with swimming (actually she wouldn't let me do it, but I really, her reasoning made sense).  In middle school I ran sprints (go figure), but I did sometimes run 5ks.  I ( Read more... )

Where do I hope to be in a year ( Read more... )

So I have trouble working out without getting a little obsessive about it.  And by that I mean, making it a lifestyle: researching it (a little too much, maybe when I should be doing math).  Obsessing over details of how to keep it fun and challenging and how to best train with my schedule ( Read more... )

So I usually try to focus on things I like rather than things i hate (which is why you often hear me say "Oh, I love this [blank]," but try not to say I dislike something without being prompted.  But I do, I know that, I just try to focus on the positives.  Anyway, not the point.  I was just thinking about a few things I hate while I was running ( Read more... )

(X) Gone on a blind date (sort of ( Read more... )

So I've had a bad shoulder for over 2 years now.  It's been on and off, but it's definitely been healing since I stopped swimming competitively.  I had some problems early this year, so I backed off and I was just working swimming back into my workout routine, up to a few miles a week (which is really all I can mentally handle without anyone to ( Read more... )

So the fact that John Mayer went to college at UGA, means he was writing songs when he was my age in nearly the same place I'm in now... which means they are extra fitting.  Every time I start to get sick of his music, a song or a line, or something jumps out at me.  Today it's "Why Georgia" because, well, I sometimes wonder that myself ( Read more... )

So I use livejournal to vent a lot, but I think i neglect it a lot to post my excitement.  Because at least for me, excitement wells up inside me and makes it hard to be productive.  Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes I do need to do work.  And as we all know, I'm a pretty excited person when my will is not crushed by school.  ( Read more... )

So I've always been hard on myself.  Maybe a little too hard on myself.  Well, maybe not, I don't know.  But I was listening to a lot of Relient K (or watching their videos on youtube, but really, I got the same message) and it's really funny how something as silly as a song (particularly one you've heard hundreds of times) can just kind of wake ( Read more... )

I'm watching the ABC special on Michael J. Fox, "Adventures of an Incurable Optimist."  And I was a little confused, as he seemed to be using optimism as a synonym for happiness or a positive attitude, but this doesn't match up with how I've always thought of it.  It got me thinking, what does it really mean to be an optimist?  Naturally, the first ( Read more... )