falling behind

I've fallen behind in my blog reading...

After having a great spring break, I seem to have fallen behind in everything. I've been overwhelmed with the amount of work I've had to do since I got back. In some ways, being a professor is great because my schedule is so flexible-- if I want to come home at 2:00 on an afternoon when I'm not teaching, I can, and if I want to go for a run at 9 in the morning, I can. But what people don't see is the many, many hours of labor that fall outside the 9-5 hours, and it is never a job you can just leave at the office. So it's been one of those weeks where I was up until eleven at night writing tests for students to take the next morning, catching up on the reading for the class I was to teach the next day, writing an evaluation of myself for my first year of teaching, preparing a conference paper, blah blah blah. This is to say nothing of how cranky this all makes me.

Not interesting. But I apologize for missing out on RBF updates, and I hope I can catch up soon...

I'm back to my lifelong running pattern of running 3 miles every other day, which my body seems to like, but which I'm not satisfied with, especially since marathon training had me feeling like a badass on my regular 12-mile jaunts. But there's been the nagging IT-band injury, which has gotten better since I decreased my mileage. I'm going to go for a long run tomorrow, and hopefully build up my endurance again. And one thing I did not neglect this week was Power Abs with Carlos. The class was on a Tuesday, but the abs were still aching on Friday, thus appealing to my more masochistic tendencies...

For those of you interested in food and cooking, I've restarted a food blog I kept for about two years. You can check it out here.

Hope to catch up with all of you soon...