Its been SO COLD the past two days; we have the heat on again.
The fall here is so beautiful- I'm sad that my camera totally sucks otherwise I'd have some beautiful pictures to show of my last fall semester here. The leaves are absolutely beautiful. I love the reds and oranges.
So here is an image stolen from some grad student's blog I found when I googled "Fall UIUC". sigh. I need a new camera. Why are they so expensive?(sad face)
I may be jinxing myself by writing this, but my skin has somewhat normalized again- probably due to the cold.
I'm running out of groceries, so Liz and I will probably make a run tonight for food.
Yay cupcakes!!

This coming week is going to be relatively lax; I just hope I don't slack off too much, since the week after starts to pick up again. (BADM 323 exam- which wont be hard, but lets see if I can pull of another A+, BADM 312 essay #5, and Kindle draft- she'd better not give us another 3,5)

So, I've laid off the yoga- I don't remember if I wrote about it at all. In case I haven't, I went to a few yoga classes to a) feed my curiosity and also b) in an effort to force myself to wake up early on weekends. In a nutshell, it was boring. I always thought meditation was about inner peace and tranquil environments; I thought it was about finding yourself through extreme concentration. At the very end of the class when we did a group meditation, the instructor always found it necessary to read Thoreau's Walden- which is wonderful, and I can see how he might think it would help create a natural setting inside a cold dance studio at the gym, but really...it was obnoxious and I wanted to punch him.
So, I stopped going.
Instead, I picked up a cardio-kickboxing class which has been for the most part, so far, interesting. It does a good job of warming me up, but I don't really sweat that much- so I wonder if its better if I just go work out on my own. (Although I don't know if sweat-or lack of swear is a good gauge of how effective a workout is.) I did however, find out that I do not have ANY balance at all; from an evolutionary standpoint, I suppose that means I'm not very evolved. Whenever we do roundhouse kicks, I always feel like I'm going to topple over.
I'm like a chimpanzee with that muscle through my ischium missing!!
I wonder why the new Pushing Daisies isn't up. (sad face)