Baby why me….?

This song is stuck in my head and whenever I listen to it, I just want to go outside and just sprint until I pass out.

I gotta keep reminding myself this. This is how it has been since I was born, and there is no exception for grad school.

I think things are turning out okay. I was kinda stressed this week, because I thought about dropping a class. The thing is, I need a certain amount of units, and I don’t really have a research professor to give me research units. But instead of scrambling to find a research prof. I just decided to work one less day a week. It is amazing how much more productive I can be with just one day.

After I get this day of 6 hours of classes straight, I will be able to relax. But the rest of the quarter will be no easy ride. I have my Nike’s Woman Half marathon on sunday, so I am going to be in SF this weekend. I’ll probably just have to spend most of my time studying though. I haven’t really been running the past two weeks due to school, so we’ll see how things go. After this weekend, I’ll have to prepare for the Davis Open. I think I will be able to do okay. Hopefully better than last year in D’s.

Okay, gotta eat / prepare for my quiz and survive. Lets keep it up. Aja aja, hwaiting. Jia you. Gambatte ne?

I am sorry I have been able to click and scroll on you that often this week. I have to get my priorities straight, and Grad school is on my front burner. I swear I’m not seeing another blogging site.

Moving in and going to school took a large portion of my time. I am still not fully settled in yet. I’m missing the small things that I don’t realize I need until it is too late, and when I go home and try and figure out what I need I usually forget. I am starting to plan out my days better on google calendar, since I have to juggle running, badminton, studying, and work.

I ran for the first time in Davis. I usually doing run during the school year, but since the half marathon is getting closer, I gotta get in okay shape. I mapped out a 5 mile path on google maps and I incorporated a bike path on it, but apparently I couldn’t find the entrance. I spent a few extra mins lost, but I think I got at least 4 miles out of the run.

Grad school is a beast compared to undergrad. Now I understand why people suggest taking 2 or less grad classes… lol. I am saying this only after one day. But to be fair, it was one day of 6 hours of class in a row. My brain was pretty fried, and I ran my 4 miles before class. I just gotta study and keep my professors impressed. I felt like a total dumbass listening to some profs lecture or working in a group to design a water and wastewater treatment plant.

Well I am off to make some ramen from scratch. I hope I finish within 10 hours. 

gotta study too.

So I got an email from the Nike’s Woman Half marathon reminding me to make sure I have all my running supplies, and guess what their message was?

“Good job guys on making it through the hot summer. All that training will pay off, you’re almost there”

Well something along those lines. And guess how much I ran. Yup… zero. So I had to force myself to run on monday. I ended up running with Carl on the bike train. We were only going to run 3 or 4 miles, at least that is what I had in mind. Usually when I start running again, that is my bench mark to start at. We ended up running 2.5 miles out, and I thought that would be the farthest we would run, but for some reason we were still feeling good. So we ran another mile out, and so began the trek back home. It actually wasn’t too bad. I just didn’t have a super strong finish. But I ran it in about 70 mins, probably less. As long as I keep my 10 min mile pace when I am starting out I am good.

Day 2 was today. My joints haven’t fully recovered from day 1 so we only ran 5 miles but at a faster pace. I think it was at least an 8 min mile pace, lol or that is what it felt like. On the way back, we got passed up by this super tall guy, he was running pretty fast, about 3/5’s faster than us, Carl ended up chasing after him and left me behind, but then when we got to the drinking fountain he was dead and needed a little rest. The rest of the way back I just kept my steady kinda fast past, but was breathing super hard the last mile. The high school me would kick my ass.

It turns out today there was a practice track meet that is held annually at my old high school. I saw all these high schoolers and it made me want to race them, but I knew most of them would kick my ass. Maybe not the freshmen, but what is the fun in beating them. It was also “Back to School Night” and there were a ridiculous amount of parents and high school kids. Some either look like 13 while others look like they could be in college. It is kinda a weird dichotomy. (lol i think i used that word right).

All the cheer leaders or kids that were hosting asked if we needed help. Do we look like parents? Or high schoolers? Turns out this guy parked his car in front of a bus in the bus lane and the driver was pissed. he asked us if we knew who parked there cuz i guess he couldn’t get out. Well he had room in the back, but the thing is, buses aren’t supposed to back out unless they have someone behind them guiding them. At least thats how it is for the unitrans buses. He complained so much to us, and when we were walking away, he asked us if we knew how to drive? And if we knew that it would be stupid to park there. I was like… wtf, I am not a high school student, but he didn’t hear me and continued to bitch. Whatever, I guess if anything I still look young.

I should probably run one more time…. We’ll see how it goes. 

The Runners from fla on Vimeo.

Sticky Monster Lab, my new favorite animation group. It makes me want to run again.