Things I've Been Up To

1. Becoming obsessed with The Voice. Especially this audition:



2. Exercising. I'm trying to do 25 minutes of strength training (medium weights, sit ups, mad planking except I can only do 30 seconds and I'm pretty sure I was able to do more when I was a kid... I think it's because I was lighter then. Now, I'm too fat to hold my own weight) 5-6 times a week. This also looks amazing: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/10/zombies-run/ If only I still ran... but I honestly just can't. It makes me so puffed out until the point of nausea, so bad that I want to throw up. It kills my knees too. But still, that looks like so much fun and anything that makes exercising fun is great, right?

But honestly. Exercising sucks. It feels good when you're done. You feel accomplished and you feel tired but in a good way. But before, I just dread it. And then when you're doing it and it hurts, you think, "Why don't I just get fat instead?" and then you get halfway through and you think, "Ugh, might as well keep... going..." And then you get to the end and eat three tim tams.

3. Working. A lot of uni assignments coming up. Pain in the bloody arse. But still, studying for exams is so much worse.

4. Making eye-contact with hot guys in my FCP tute. Oh ma goodness... This is the guy I was referring to a couple weeks back when I mentioned the guy I had mapped out my entire future with over the course of 48 hours. Today, the tute was on HRT and contraception etc. The kids get really off topic and he brought up the question, "So what's the chance of a woman getting pregnant at any time, anyway? Like, if you just picked a random girl and..." I started laughing (so did others but I swear... it was like we had a connection) and he glanced over at me and EVEN GLANCED BACK again as he saw my laughing. Oh, my God. What will our children look like?

5. Bumping into Caitlyn at the entrance of Reid. What a sweetheart. I miss these girls so much. I rarely get to see you guys anymore because we can never synchronize schedules. The best thing about these sort of friends that you just have known so long is you can pretty much just say stuff as you want to. And they know you. You can say stuff like, "Your hair's getting so long!" and not look like a creeper. I hate having to pretend I'm not a creeper in front of people I don't know well.

6. Reading Pride & Prejudice again. Yeah, this book is awesome. For anyone who hasn't read it, I suggest you do. Or watch the movie. I don't know. They're both so excellent (and the '95 short series as well) and I give extra kudos to the book for obviously being the egg to the movie's chicken (or however you want to think about it). But the movie was what drew me in and made me want to read the book. I don't know if I could have stomached that old man jargon that is so common to classic lit without having that image of Mr. Fitzwilliam Handsome in my head.

7. Getting jiggy wid it.

J