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[17 May 2009|09:54am] |
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I lied. I totally feel every single rock I skidded across yesterday. Oh man, it really hurt to get out of bed this morning. My arms are kind of sore, but my knees are bruised and oh-so-sore from all the rock on bone action I got. Ouch.
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[16 May 2009|03:44pm] |
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The canoeing trip this year was extra special thanks to high water because to all the rain we've had, a torrential rain storm (accompanied by thunder! and lightening!) that happened while we were half-way down the river, and my general lack of skill when it comes to steering a canoe. I picked up on steering a lot quicker this year than the last time I went, thankfully. We managed the waterfall without flipping (surprise!), but then got t-boned by another canoe later and went straight into the water. Apparently no canoe trip is complete without me skidding across the rocks. Much less damage this year than last. I got pretty scratched up on my upper thigh and stomach. A few superficial scrapes on one knee, and small gash on the other knee. We flipped once more going over some rocks, but no rock skidding that time. The free food afterwards totally made it worthwhile. Despite being banged up, it was still a lot of fun.
And now I'm exhausted. No muscles are tired, strangely enough, but I feel like I'm about to pass out. Which is exactly what I'd like to do if I didn't have too much work I should be doing already. Back to work. Joys.
Some days it's hard to remember that I like science.
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[14 May 2009|07:47pm] |
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1. I'm alive.
2. My committee meeting went very well, and I'm now in the process of tying up some loose ends and writing. Scary.
3. After all the stress of the last few weeks, I took the rest of the week off from any form of good behavior following my committee meeting. It was very nice.
4. Now I'm trying to get back into a routine of not eating crap, working/writing with focus, and gym afterwards. I'm off to a so-so start. It isn't easy getting myself to the gym, but I'm fine once I'm there. Go figure. Food is another story. And I need to get back into the habit of logging what I've done/ate, if for no other reason than to avoid days like today where I totally ate the world's crappiest breakfast because I was in a hurry (lucky charms and chips).
5. Note to self: quit buying lucky charms cereal.
6. I've started watching LOST. And I'm pretty sure I like it.
The End.
5/13/09
-Ran 1 mile on the treadmill. Oh, and did I feel it.
5/14/09
-Ran 2 miles @ 10 min/mi pace
-10 min on the stationary bike keeping the HR above 140 bpm
By the way, it is amazingly good therapy to go to the gym after a day filled with writing. My brain totally felt full after I finished writing for the day. WHen I ran I tried to run at a comfortable pace, not looking at my watch until the very end. It was nice. Running is about the only time my brain shuts up. It takes about all of my focus to not trip over my feet and keep breathing. I had twenty blissful minutes of blank. It was heaven. Now if only I could train myself to do that without running... That'd be nice.
Food was so bad on both days I'm too embarrassed to post it. I need to start making grocery lists that are products of PLANNING. I totally blanked on several key ingredients I needed to make sandwiches for lunch this week, resulting in me eating crap instead. Not smart.
The End, part II
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[28 Apr 2009|06:46am] |
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So yesterday pretty much sucked. It started out bad and just got worse as the day continued.
Stuck in Talladega traffic. I hate rednecks. I hate Talladega. I hate the mess that the rednecks that go to Talladega create on the interstate when they try to reinact the races they just watched. TWO hours in stand still traffice. TWO ENTIRE HOURS in which I didn't travel more than ten miles. And with my bladder, that wasn't a very good thing. It came to the point of where it was either pee in the seat or pull off to the side of the interstate and make use of the woods. I opted for the latter. And, OF COURSE, the floor of the woods was COVERED in poison ivy. I tried to be careful, but I was wearing shorts... so now it's just a waiting game to see if I came in contact with the stuff. Thank goodness I was at least wearing shoes instead of flip flops.
At work I got bombarded with 1001 useless (and some not-so-useless) things to do. As if I didn't already have enough to deal with at the moment. I got the proofs back on my manuscript. Apparently it's perfectly okay to copy edit a manuscript half-way. There were inconsistencies in the terms used and multiple incorrect corrections. There is nothing I abhor more than being corrected incorrectly. If you're going to copy edit, at least do it correctly. And stay away from the science if you obviously no nothing about it. /end rant. And did I mention they gave the proofs to me on Friday and want them done by today. So, essentially, they get three months to copy edit... and I get three days??? Excuse me? Ugh.
Then I needed to provide feedback for Doc's latest grant. Which I really tried to do, in between running westerns. I even worked on it once I finally left the lab last night. ANd then there are mandatory "requests" to attend a lunch meet-and-greet with a new faculty recruit. It wouldn't be so bad if I weren't already so busy and cared even a fraction about what this guy does. Drug design is interesting, but not when I'm really trying to frantically get more data for my next committee meeting... which is in a week. Thankfully, Doc gave me the go-ahead to miss since it'll be in a building that's a few blocks down the streets and would turn one hour of wasted time into probably closer to 2-3 hours of wasted time. I still have to go to the guy's seminar today... but that's a fairly small price to pay.
Watched an hour of tv and then went back to work. Sadly, I was in bed asleep before 9PM.
P-a-t-h-e-t-i-c.
On the plus side, today is starting off much better than yesterday.
1) I slept well! I was up only twice during the night, and both times were just a few minutes of wakefulness. That's an incredibly good night for me.
2) And so far there's no poison ivy rash on my legs. I'm not out of the woods yet, but as sensitive as my skin is, it's a very good sign.
3) I managed to load six westerns yesterday, so today will be spent playing with my new antibodies.
Side note: western blot is NOT capitalized unless it begins a sentence. Southern blot is the only blotting procedure that is capitalized, regardless of its position in a sentence because it is the only blotting procedure that is named after its inventor. Northern and western blots were named by convention. Yes, the copy editor really went through my entire paper and capitalized each and every occurrance of western blot. I realize it's such a small thing, but I really can't help my anal rententiveness. It's a sickness.
4) I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast. Mmmmm, peanut butter.
5) This is the first morning in a while that I haven't had intense sinus pressure upon waking up. Considering that's usually the tip off that I'll be battling an impending migraine all day, that's a huge relief.
6) Walking to work = no traffic. There's no guarantee on rednecks though. I can deal with that. It's the combination of the two that makes me want to beat my head against the nearest available surface.
And now I need to hurry up and get to the lab.
And happy belated birthday to my Dad! Belated only in the public announcement though :) I'm not quite that absentminded just yet.
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[23 Apr 2009|08:13pm] |
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My lungs are seriously burning. I know I should use my inhaler, but I so do not want to spend the rest of the night wide awake because of it. I’m already having enough trouble sleeping as it is. Yay stress, yay! I was awake last night from 3:30AM until 5:30 AM trying to get my brain to shut up. But all I could think about was how I was going to manage to prep for the MCAT while still managing to work enough to survive. And just when I finally had things sorted out in my head, I started stressing about all the different things that can go wrong in this next committee meeting. I understand the need to tie successful science to a degree, but sometimes it really sucks. Science rarely gets tied up into a nice, neat little package. So why do we force graduate students to do that?
Maybe running after lab will at least give me a chance to de-stress so that it won't wake me up in the middle of the night.
I’m so not good at the whole taking it easy thing. Continuous running felt so much better than doing stupid 90s bursts. Hopefully my plantar fascia won’t hate me in the morning. Fingers crossed.
5 min warm-up (walk)
¼ mi run @ 8:00 min/mi
1/8 mi slow, untimed jog
¼ mi run @ 8:00 min/mi
1/8 mi slow, untimed jog
1/8 mi run @ 8:00 min/mi
1/8 mi slow, untimed jog
5 min cool-down (walk)
Weight lifting (arms)
Not so good with the health eating today either. Oops?
Breakfast- chili cheese nachos (haha, healthy!!!)
Snack- string cheese
Lunch- peanut butter & jelly sandwich, bean soup, cookie
Snack- granola bar
Supper- chicken stir-fry (chicken, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, water chestnuts, zucchini, squash)
Ugh, my lungs suck.
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[23 Apr 2009|06:51am] |
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Not sleeping and waking up at the crack of dawn don't go well together. Aside from Monday, this entire week has been one gigantic fail on the gym front. Barring another wacked-out-weather migraine, I'm packing my gear and going after lab. I hate that I can't seem to get back into the early morning groove.
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| Back on the fitness bandwagon... |
[20 Apr 2009|06:30pm] |
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And it was painful. I am so out of shape. Hopefully, that will soon change. As will my aversion to 5:30 AM wake-up, fingers crossed.
-5 min warm-up (walking, 3 mph, 0% incline)
-90s run, 60s walk x 20 minutes (5/3 mph, 1% incline)
-5 min cool-down (walking, 3 mph, 1% incline)
-stretching
Food wasn't so good today. Fun, fun cramped-for-time circumstances. Journal club took up all of lunch and I was busy loading westerns before then. I was supposed to have a meeting directly after journal club so I had to bolt down some food quick. And then the meeting never happened... despite me calling for an hour straight. But I'm not bitter about that AT ALL.
Then, by the time I got back to the apartment, I was famished. Of course I then bolted down waaaaay too much food. I'm so insanely fully right now. It wasn't bad food. It was just too much. I seriously need to break the habit of practically inhaling my food.
Breakfast- banana, mini-twix bar, eggs, zucchini, and salsa (420 calories)
Snack- string cheese (80 calories)
Lunch- peanut butter and jelly sandwiches x 2, mini-twix bar (600 calories)
Snack- granola bar (120 calories)
Supper- bean soup x 2, turkey sandwich, mini-snickers bar (~750 calories)
Total: 1970 calories
I'm loathing graduate school at the moment. It waxes and wanes.
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[08 Apr 2009|06:34am] |
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First, the complaints:
1) The lab has become my entire life these days. Way unhealthy, I'd say.
2) Sleep. Some days I think I'd sell my soul to sleep like a normal person. It's been especially bad the past few weeks, for whatever reason. Last night I resorted to taking an Ambien. It knocked me out for six blissful hours. I can't tell you the last time I slept for six hours, uninterrupted. It was heaven. That's all I'm asking for, really. I could totally live with six hours of uniterrupted sleep per night. One day soon, I'm going to take advantage of a sleep study and hopefully get this taken care of for good.
3) Long work days + little sleep = no running. Same old story. I'm pretty sure that I'll have to switch my running to the morning again, as much as it pains me to do so. I'm working to start waking up at 5:15 AM this week. Next week I'll start back to the gym on a schedule.
The good stuff:
1) I'm scheduled to give the next lab meeting. I volunteered considering I've got a committee meeting in early May. And I honestly think I have enough material completed and in the works to be given the go-ahead by my committee. Until I started putting it all together just recently, I didn't realize exactly how much data I have left. Now when I actually graduate is still up to the committee, depending on if they make me include the second tumorigenesis study or not. That thing won't end until mid-September. Considering it isn't really a part of my dissertation proposal and given the amount of data I have already, I'm hoping they'll just let it slide. That means I could spend the summer writing (without a rush) and finishing up some stuff and graduate in early (Sept/Oct) fall semester. It's insane for me to start to view graduation as something other than a daydream. Kind of creepy, actually.
2) Despite the lack of running, my weight has held steady. Actually, I've lost a little, surprisingly enough. I attribute that to incorporating a lot more fruits, vegetables, and water into my diet. I've been happy with the quality of food I've been eating lately. Though I totally did drink a milkshake this weekend and grab a Twix bar from the vending machine the other day, I've greatly outweighed that with good food. Tofu lasagna packed with veggies, zucchini pancakes, apples, bananas, etc.
3) It's going to be in the 70s again by Thursday. Good bye, cold weather!
4) I am a much more pleasant person if I drink a diet coke in the morning. That little bit of caffiene really does a good job of tempering my sarcasm.
The End.
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[24 Mar 2009|08:40pm] |
Work has been busy. It will likely continue to be busy until May 5th, which is when my next committee meeting is scheduled. This is set to be the big one, the one where I will hopefully get the go-ahead to start writing. Or, at the very least, get indication that I’m very close to the writing stage. It seems almost surreal that I’m close to that point already. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. I still have lots of data left to generate and very few days between now and the meeting.
In other news, I’ve decided to start at the very beginning of the couch-to-5k program. I think a lot of my injuries stem from a decently adapted cardiovascular system and a totally shell shocked skeletal and muscular system. So I’m starting in the kiddie pool to hopefully work up to the deep end again. I started today and it totally sucked. Running/walking in 90/60 second intervals is way awkward. Okay, so 90/60 isn’t the very beginning, but I only lasted one round of 60/90 before frustration took over and I bumped myself up a week. Plus my heart rate really wasn’t impressed. So to recap, it sucks. But, next week I get to run longer and walk less… slightly. All in good time, I suppose. And hopefully this time I will be injury free… because this past injury has really sucked. A lot.
Food:
Breakfast- banana, 3 eggs, salsa
Snack- granola bar
Lunch- black soy bean and rice burrito, zucchini soup (zucchini, mushrooms, ground turkey, stewed tomatoes, Italian seasoning), apple
Snack- almonds,4 triscuits
Supper- spaghetti (ground turkey, zucchini, mushrooms, paul newman’s sockarooni)
I dig the new breakfast. I’m not too into eggs, but they fill me up for a long time. Yay, protein. I’m a little nervous about all the cholesterol, but the more I learn about cholesterol the more I’m convinced that diet contributes very little the systemic value of cholesterol in the blood (especially considering you fast before getting that particular blood panel).
Exercise:
90s run/60s walk; Run = 6.0, 0% incline, walk = 3.3, 0% incline for 25 minutes (2 miles)
15 minutes on the stationary bike, keeping my HR above 140 bpm.
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| First run back. Woo! Wheeze! Woo! |
[19 Mar 2009|07:22pm] |
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Today I finally managed to get in my first run post-injury. It was bliss. Well, being able to run without pain shooting my arch was bliss. The actual run itself was as close to torture as you can get. My, my, my how quickly our cardiovascular fitness splits. Good thing I enjoy torture.
Warmed up by walking a little less than half a mile and then did some serious stretching, especially of my calves… which I’m told is the major contributing factor to plantar fasciitis. Stupid calves. Anyway, so I ran one mile at a little under a 10 min/mi pace, walked about an eighth of a mile, watched some indoor soccer, and then ran another half mile at a 9:30 min/mi pace. I was sucking some serious wind at the end of that half mile. Haha.
And now I need to sit down and figure out a way to revamp my food intake. It’s gotten crazy out of control since I haven’t been able to run. Oddly enough, I haven’t gained any weight. I actually lost another pound. It’s been about three weeks, so it’s not exactly a blindly fast weight loss. But I need to figure out a way to eat that fits within my time schedule, shoves in as many veggies as humanly possible, while not tasting like complete garbage. I’ve been living off of $5 footlongs from subway as of late. Not terrible (at least what I eat isn’t terrible), but not exactly brimming with nutrients either.
Breakfast- banana, peanut butter sandwich
Snack- granola bar
Lunch- ½ subway sandwich (turkey, lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, pickles, banana peppers, pepper jack cheese on oregano parmesan bread), handful of almond. Yeah, yeah, the bread is a bad choice. But it’s worth the extra 100 calories.
Snack- handful of almonds
Supper- the other half of my sandwich and a bag of plain potato chips
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| Super NSAIDs... |
[02 Mar 2009|07:57pm] |
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No one is really sure what’s up with my foot. The doctor at student health said it was an odd presentation for plantar fasciitis given that: 1) the pain is constant, and 2) it’s on the side of my foot that accounts for only 5-10% patient presentation. Not impossible, just odd. This is the guy I actually trust. He’s nothing if not thorough. He sent me for an x-ray today just to rule out a stress fracture. So I was given a shrug, some stronger NSAIDs, and instructions to return immediately if the pain worsened. I’m still supposed to make a follow-up visit. But given how much better my foot feels after a week of rest and two doses of NSAIDs, I might pass.
I was also given instructions not to even think about running for another week. That sucks. I was already feeling antsy last week. I’m thinking I might try getting on a stationary bike. That should be pretty safe, right? No pressure, no force. I just really don’t want to delay healing.
And I’m so sick of lab that I really don’t feel like talking about it.
I do, however, feel like reading. Adios.
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[01 Mar 2009|07:15am] |
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It's snowing...
I so totally wasn't expecting that when I groggily shuffled over to the window this morning. I'm a little baffled, because my weather indicator on Yahoo! insists that it's 41 degrees... yet there's snow falling AND sticking to some parts of the ground, including the road. I've been down here four years and never seen anything more than a tiny little snow flurry. And now, the one weekend that I need to be in the lab... it snows. Combine this with all of the issues I had trying to get my lab supplies in to run my gels, and I'd almost swear I really wasn't meant to run these stupid gels.
I spent all day in the lab yesterday prepping samples. It took so much longer than I'd anticipated. This, of course, was helped by the fact that nothing went the way it was supposed to go.
1) Samples were missing (cue the panic!!!!)
2) There was very little liquid nitrogen left (more panic!!!)
3) Nothing was where it was supposed to be in the 4C fridge (thanks to us having to empty it a few weeks ago went it started misbehaving)
I didn't leave until nearly 7pm (after arriving at 9am). I was pretty happy I'd had the forsight to drive into work that morning, just in case.
Today will be a much lighter day, in theory. The only problem is that the rest of the prep should take 3-4 hours, at most. But I also need to rehydrate this afternoon. I really don't feel like making two trips to the lab, especially when it's apparently cold outside. So I'm thinking I'll spend the morning cleaning, cooking, and doing laundry. Then, after lunch, I'll head into the lab. Maybe the snow will be gone by then.
PS- My foot is feeling a lot better. Figures, considering I have an appointment at student health tomorrow morning. I'm torn as to whether I should cancel or not.
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| Wnat some cheese with that whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. |
[25 Feb 2009|09:42pm] |
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My foot hurts. A lot.
Every step I take where my foot isn't numb from my last ice session feels like my arch is being ripped in half. The only improvement I've seen in the past four days is that I can bear weight on my foot without gritting my teeth in pain. That's something, right? Right.
I made an appointment at student health, but the earliest they could get to me was Monday morning. That's a long ways away when I hurt NOW. Apparently they don't consider injuries to be acute care. Jerks. I'm tempted to cancel it. I can already guess how the appointment is going to go: They'll launch into a condescending speech about Frankie the unhappy Fascia and give me a sheet of exercises that I could have easily have printed off of the internet myself (without sitting around in a waiting room for an hour). Rest, ice, and NSAIDs. Check, check, and they're-currently-pushing-me-closer-to-cardiac-arrest-as-we-speak check. It all sounds like a waste of time. Unless I can talk them into giving me a shot of steroids in my foot. Mmmmm, reduced inflammation. Sounds like heaven.
Ok, I should go to bed. That, or actually look at the presentation I have to giving tomorrow morning. I'm actually amazed at how much I just really don't care about it though. Oh well. Sleep it is.
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[25 Feb 2009|07:18am] |
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1. Six miles of stupidity = plantar fasciitis. Ouuuuuuuuuuuch. This is the worst case I've ever had. Stupid high arches. Lots of rest, ice, and NSAIDs this week.
2. The seminar went well. It wasn't as good as my performance last Thursday, but it was good enough I suppose. My biggest weakness is talking too fast. Doc tried to help me out by sitting right in front of me and motioning for me to slow down whenever I started going at warp speed. It helped, somewhat, but it just distracted me more than anything else. The Q&A was okay. I didn't really get any hard questions, just some odd questions. I had an answer for them all. Though I did launch into a really rambling, roundabout answer that I'm still kicking myself over at one point. I swear I always end up doing that with this one guy. The same thing happened at my first seminar with the same exact person. I answered the question, but it took me a minute of rambling to hit the right answer. Eh, it's over and done with. That's the important part.
3. Presentation at 8:30 AM Thursday morning for graduate student research days. Very exciting. /sarcasm
4. Lab work, lab work, lab work. That's my motto for the next week and a half. I'll be running 2D gels all week and weekend long. My practice set with mice are running as I type. Pending gels arriving early next week, I'll be starting two sets in a staggered form. Fuuuuuun. Or not.
5. My life really isn't that interesting. The end.
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[18 Feb 2009|08:33pm] |
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Some days I totally rock.
So I just got back from my run where I managed to cover six miles in 56 minutes. That averages out to a little less than 9:30/mi. Not only is that the fastest I’ve ever covered six miles, it’s the fastest I’ve covered anything greater than a mile. I’m not how it happened, really. I tracked the first two miles on my watch, and I was running about 11 min/mi. Obviously I sped up somewhere, which is strange because it felt like I slowed down. Dramatically. I did have recurring side stitches, but I was able to just slow my pace a bit and deep breathe through them. No big deal. I did learn my lesson today about cotton socks, sweaty feet, and higher mileage. Blisters. I guess I will be breaking out the black anti-blister socks after all. All of this especially amuses me because once I finished running, I was ticked. I saw 1:06 on my watch and realized I clocked in a 10:30 min/mi pace. Not bad, I know. But the last time I did six miles I was about to stay on a 10 min/mi pace… and I don’t like regressing. At all. And then I remembered I’d done ten minutes of clocked walking as a warm-up. That definitely changed my mood.
Sadly, the entire run MIGHT just cover the monster lunch I ate today. Stupid seminars and their stupid food and my total lack of will power. Huge turkey sandwich, a bag of original sun chips, and a brownie. The brownie was the kiss of death because it was rich chocolate covered with a chocolate glaze and shreds of white chocolate decoration. I don’t even want to GUESS the number of calories in the brownie alone. All this after I swore to myself I’d forgo the free lunch and wait and eat my own lunch back at the lab afterwards. Yeah, that lasted all of like five minutes. Oh well. It was good, so that counts for something.
Tomorrow is the teleconference. And I’ve got to turn my slides in for my oral presentation for graduate student research day. I get the pleasure of giving the first talk of the day at 8:30 AM next Thursday. And this is after I give the departmental seminar on Tuesday. Busy week next week. Thankfully, after that, things will die down for a little while.
Exercise: 10 min walking (warm-up), 6 mi run (9:30 min/mi pace!!!), 5 min walking (cool-down), and stretching (which felt oh-so-good).
Breakfast- 1 banana, 2 tbsp peanut butter, froot loops, and crispix (500 calories)
Snack- granola bar (120 calories)
Lunch- turkey sandwich, chips, brownie (I’m ball parking it at around 820-920 calories: 2 pieces bread @ 100 calories each, about 150 calories of turkey, 220 calories for the chips, and 250-350 for the brownie)
Snack- 5 triscuits (~86 calories)
Supper- undecided; I’m kind of hungry, but I don’t feel like eating. At least I don’t feel like eating anything I have here at the apartment. I want some meatball lentil soup, but I can’t bring myself to eat the leftovers from last week. One week is the time frame I generally stick to for eating stuff I’ve cooked.
Total: 1596, sans supper. I’ll probably find something worth a few hundred more calories before I go to bed.
Time to work on tomorrow’s presentation. Joys.
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[17 Feb 2009|08:07pm] |
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I just got home from work. And I still have more work to do. Ugh. This is not fun. Too much stuff to do, too few waking hours. Com’on March, com’on. Get here faster.
Exercise: none; No time in the evenings anymore. It looks like I’ll be switching to morning runs for this week, as much as I hate to do so.
Food: Switching up my normal diet wasn’t such a smart move. I’ve been starving all week. Not good. Thankfully I’ve managed to keep it healthy, though I’m pretty sure I’ve jumped up on calories.
Breakfast: 1 banana, 1 tbsp peanut butter, raisin bran cereal, soy milk, apple (~550 calories)
Lunch: granola bar (90 calories)
Lunch: bean soup, zucchini cornbread, apple (~500 calories)
Snack: 7 triscuits, 100 calorie bag of popcorn (220 calories)
Supper: 2 slices of cheese, almond chicken, steamed veggies (broccoli, baby corn, water chestnuts, snap peas) (~530 calories)
Total Calories: 1890 calories
Time for more work. Ugh.
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[12 Feb 2009|10:42pm] |
I'm pretty sure I can hear my car alarm going off right now. If I wasn't tired and/or lazy at the moment, I'd go check to see what's going on. Can't be trying to steal anything considering I have nothing of value in the car. Oh well.
Knees were a bit rough today, so I bypassed gym. The plan is to get up early enough to go in the morning. It's a plan because I haven't slept for crap in three days, and, if that continues, morning is going to come way too early.
I don't really remember what I ate. I got thrown off by having to waste my morning waiting on the DSL repair dude to show up. My modem was fried, by the way, exactly as I'd called it. Back to eating, I did well enough. Lots of peanut butter for breakfast. It's an addiction, I swear. The usual for lunch. A bean, cheese, and rice burriot (whole food brand, good and only ~300 calories) and more peanut butter. I'm pretty sure I could live off of peanut butter alone and be perfectly content.
Next week starts the stress:
2/16: journal club presentation, slides for teleconference due to Doc
2/19: teleconference presentation, presentation due to GSRD for competition
2/24: departmental seminar
2/27: GSRD oral presentation
2/28: journal club presentation for lab meeting (thanks to me and my BIG mouth)
lajflasjflkasjflkjsadf!!!!!
Yeah.
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[11 Feb 2009|11:04pm] |
And now I'm too aggitated to sleep. After a charming chat with the AT&T help desk, it has been decided that I need a technician to come out tomorrow... between the hours of 8AM - 12PM. Because I have absolutely nothing to do tomorrow morning except wait for the DSL dude to show up. Great! It looks like I'll be getting up extra early so I can get to the lab, pick up enough data to keep me busy for the morning, leave instructions for animal work, and get back here before 8AM. Ridiculous.
Stupid internet. Ten bucks says that the modem I just finished paying off in January has bit the dust.
PS- Yes, I am totally stealing wifi from my apartment complex's free lobby hook-up. Sometimes it's really good to have an apartment directly above the lobby.
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[11 Feb 2009|09:56pm] |
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Tired. And I'm having internet troubles.
Exercise: 3 mi (run), weights (arms), and 4 mi bike
The run was good for the first two miles. The last mile hurt. My lungs were burning despite the fact that I slowed down and I started getting a side stitch. I should probably start taking my inhaler with me. Even now, every time I breathe my lung still feel weird. It's hard to explain. I know it goes away after a few hits of albuterol... but I really don't want to take steroid this close to bedtime. The last time I did that I was awake until the wee hours of the morning. I can't sleep for crap as it is. I surely don't need help. It'll probably be fine by morning anway. It usually is.
Food:
Breakfast- 2 tbsp peanut butter, 1 banana, slim-fast shake (500 calories)
Lunch- bean soup, zucchini cornbread, granola bar, apple (600 calories)
Snack- 4 triscuits & 2 tbsp hummus (142 calories)
Supper- meatball lentil soup, 1 tbsp peanut butter, 3 sheets of graham crackers (530 calories)
Total: 1772 calories
Bed.
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Yesterday and today have been bottomless pit days in terms of my stomach. I’m not really sure what’s up. It’s not as if I’ve suddenly changed my eating habits or anything. But, nonetheless, I can’t seem to get full in the mornings. I’m not about to go hungry, but I have been trying to make sure what I eat is semi-nutritionally sound. I was proud that I bypassed the pizza at seminar today. So difficult. Pizza is probably my ultimate weakness. Love pizza. Love pizza a little too much. And pizza so totally doesn’t love me back. Anyway, moving on…
Exercise: 2.5 mi run
Good run. I could have gone longer. I’d actually planned going longer. But this dude decided to take the treadmill right next to mine despite nearly an entire ROW of empty treadmills. This irritates me for several reasons. First, who does that???? Seriously. Who in their right mind wants to voluntarily put themselves within a foot of another sweaty, stinky person? So maybe my neuroticness with personal space is showing… but still. I still maintain that the world would be a much better place if people would just give me as much space as I give them. Boundaries, people. Don’t get in my personal bubble. It makes me uncomfortable.
Weird thing happened. I forgot my anti-blister socks so I ran in my regular cotton socks. No blisters. And I could have bought three packs of these socks for what I paid for those stupid non-functional anti-blister socks.
I sound angry today. I’m not. Just busy. And stressed. And I really, really don't like people getting into my personal space if at all possible. February is going to be a nightmare of a month. Specifically, next week is really going to suck. The week after won’t be much better. March is a quick reprieve of stress until April/May when I have my next committee meeting. It’s a never ending cycle.
Breakfast- banana, 1 tbsp peanut butter, slim-fast shake (400 calories)
Snack- a pack of peanuts, granola bar, 4-5 strawberries (~340 calories)
Lunch- bean soup, zucchini cornbread, apple (480 calories)
Snack- 4 triscuits & ~2 tbsp hummus (160 calories)
Supper- ½ LUNA bar, lentil soup (lentils, beef broth, 4 meatballs, carrots, celery, onions, and diced zucchini) (~350 calories)
Total: 1730 calories
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