Halloween?

I don't have a Halloween costume because October fucking flew and it hasn't really registered that it's already the end of the month. While I can't think of one costume it seems as though everyone else I've talked to has three costumes, although last time I checked, Halloween only takes place on one day.

The English department lost my graduation application that was due two weeks ago and I found out today I can't get into a class I need to complete my writing and rhetoric minor. The finish line for graduation is so close but all these obstacles keep popping up. I just wanna get out of here!!!!!

Where'd September go?

It's been a while! And I feel like a lot of blog worthy things have happened in the last couple weeks. But I don't really know where to begin. I guess the marathon has been the highlight. It was awesome, I can't wait to do another one, but I've only run twice since it and both runs have felt really unnatural, so I think my body is still recovering.

Going to Spaghettifest was a mistake. I wish that I had just hung around JMU and gone to Richmond for Alex's birthday, but what can you do. The festival was fun for the first five hours, then it turned into a complete freak show. I joined the freak show for sometime then realized my surroundings just weren't me. I felt like everyone there was trying really hard, like way too hard, to be apart of this strange hippie drug culture and it was pretty lame.

I'm supposed to run a marathon Saturday with Al Brown but we'll see how this week goes with running. I hope I can do it.

Today felt awesomely like fall, I enjoyed it. I just sat outside and read for a bit and a couple cats came up to my back porch, so that made me happy. I finally got Owen's newest CD and that made me happy as well.

I guess that's all I really came to say.

3 must listen to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5gR97BNog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHjKgQt39s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1qmCdXeAk

fear and loathing on the union tower

Where did this weekend go? I just finished 23 miles and everything feels surreal, I can't explain it. I'm getting very excited about the marathon. I get goosebumps every time someone mentions it.

Friday night I remembered I hate the JMU keg drinking scene. I always lie to myself and say it might be fun but who am I kidding. I was hungover Saturday morning and we decided to go to the union tower. I said I'd just swim because I'm terrified of heights but once we got there I had to do it. Climbing the latter was the worse! It took me over an hour to jump, partly because I was scared but more so because it was absolutely beautiful and peaceful up there. Luckily Sarah psyched herself out too and stayed just as long. I finally jumped when I noticed I was getting badly sunburned and my friends were anxiously waiting for me to leave. I seriously hated myself for climbing up there. I knew that I hated heights so what was the purpose of putting myself through that. I jumped and thought, "Oh my god what did I just fucking do." It's the most unnatural feeling in the world because all your body's alarm systems are going off. I was so scared because last time I jumped off a high spot into water I landed wrong and messed up my back for a month. But this time I felt nothing. I felt so good for the rest of the day.

School is stressful as hell already and my mom called me and yelled at me for being so broke but I had to spend all my savings on books and back to school shit. I have really bad knots in my stomach over a lot of things and I just wish that they would pass. I'm glad that I have a tower to jump off and a marathon to train for to take my mind away from things.

going the distance

i ran a little over 19 miles today. it felt a lot better than the 16 i did a few weeks ago. i've noticed that when i do longer runs, i start to fall apart right at mile 12. so today i brought my credit card with me and stopped at mile 12 and took a 5-minute giant cookie and powerade break. i think it definitely helped me out. i had this weird excruciating pain in the back of my head that i've never had before but it's gone now so i'm not too worried. i was probably dehydrated. it would have been cool to have made it to 20 but i'm not in too much of a hurry to hit 20 because i still have two months until the marathon. i feel bad for whoever has to work with me tonight. i'm going to be slow-moving and unfocused.

if i'm alive after work i'd like to drive back to stafford tonight. i realized today i've only seen my family once this summer. and once school starts i know i won't have a chance to see them. i can't remember the last time i've talked to my parents. that's not good. i wonder if it's abnormal to be in such little contact with family as i am. well atleast my mom brother and i will be in a car together for the week before classes start.

sweet n' salty

i just got home from work. i'm laughing out loud because i've had to hold it in the last two hours. someone freaked out because someone else made the sweet tea with salt and someone else served it to their guests. so everyone was going around trying to find out "WHO DID IT?!" and everyone else was giving alibis. of course, i gave mine because i genuinely didn't think that i did it. then someone else said, "tina that sounds like something you'd do." so i thought to myself, "that does sound like something i'd do." so i thought real hard and turns out, i did do it! i worked a double today and this morning i opened for the lunch shift. for the first half hour i was barely awake and i think at one point i went to make a pitcher of sweet tea for one of my tables and went and scooped the empty sugar cup with salt and didn't realize it at the time. then that cup was used to make a day's worth of sweet tea. anyways i think that's funny as shit, whether i did it or not, but no one else seemed to think so, so i'm not sure if i'll ever admit to that one. especially because i think i got away with it.

good morning

i love waking up early and drinking coffee and making breakfast and cleaning and having a whole day in front of me. my camera works. if i get tuesday off i want to go to the beach. life is good.