California

Tomorrow afternoon I'm jumping on a plane to sunny San Jose, California. Sounds like a sleepy little town full of nerds, but we'll see. See y'all in a few. I'll be bringing my ancient film camera.. do people even use these things anymore?

run

ran to Lindley, took a 1 minute break, then ran almost all the way back yesterday. Felt like death on wheels when I stopped. Now I need to eliminate that break, then start increasing the time, 'cause I ran really slow.

more running

Ran from home to Lindley Hall by way of Woodlawn yesterday.. that's about 1.9 - 2 miles. Did it in something like 18-20 minutes, though I haven't worked it out exactly. Then I biked about 6 miles. My knee hurts a little today, but I think that's from the biking. I think I'll try working my way up to running to lindley hall and then back home - that should be close to 4 miles. I guess you have to run for half an hour or so to really raise your cardiovascular fitness, so that distance should easily keep me above half an hour.

whew

Around 12:30 this evening I felt like running. I ran from my apartment to the HPER building with only two stops. One was when the cops stopped me (apparantly cars had been broken into nearby) - they basically just asked me to report anything suspicious. That was shortly after I started, too, so it doesn't count. The second stop was only a little later, at Bryan Park, to stretch a little after I was warmed up. After that I didn't stop till I got to HPER.

Total distance probably around 2.5 miles. Then I ran about half of the way back.

Knees are feeling pretty good. Hopefully this is the beginning of my comeback.

back

Okay, back in Bloomington. Fun time is over, it's time to get back to work. Had a great time visiting with the family, maybe I'll post some pictures later if they send them to me..

(almost) finished!

Just gave our presentation in P515.. actually sitting and listening to another presentation right now. Now all (!) that's left is grading the B503 final. Prof Purdom mentioned yesterday he thought it would be a "bear" to grade since the questions were hard.. I can't wait.

In other news, I just realized that I've forgotten to pay my rent this month. Gotta rush home and do that after this final, or I pay a late fee. Rats.