Daily Update

It was running adventure time last night. Running has tapered off for me lately. Not because I'm getting better and don't need to, just because i've been busy (and I haven't been making time for it as readily due to the slight injury that I've mentioned before). But I was ready for the temperate climate of the Australian Out-Back this day. I made a glorious run with the frolicking kangaroo's and ran up mountains with some Aborigines. Every footstep was painful, but I made sure to make every tread count. Since the course is kind of messed up and confusing, I limited my fitness to just over two miles. Mile one ended in 7:35, and #2 ended at 12:32. By this we can see that my ability drops off dramatically after mile 1, but I assure you that if I were to reach for mile 3 or 4, there would be a steady recovery shown, as where I have always considered myself to be a decent long distant runner. Some of my encouragement was helped this time with a running buddy, but having that in mind just scares me to think about what my motivational skills would be like with out that Buddy. The Australian track was flat and cool. The sun sets early in the Out-Back. And, as a matter of fact, it kind of looks exactly like the Track & Field Stadium up at UCLA. (Hmmm, funny how that works.)

On my way home from that Jessica called me and told me to tell josh that his phone was at her place. He is always misplacing it. So I stopped by his place to tell him that. I think his roommates are in the Russian mafia. They look like they should be anyway. After a brief recovery from running, and a short discussion with the roommates, I went over to the Bean Flat. From there we let me decide to go to Carl's jr. Oh la la. This time I got more than a shake, and I'm sure the burger undid all the running I had just attempted to do. But it was Good. From there we stopped by Veteran to watch Masters of the Universe (or HE-MAN). After all, thats where josh's TV is. We only made it half way thru, due to the late hour, also everyone there was trying to fall asleep.

When I got home I then realized how much of a mess I had made in my room when I was trying to clean up the rest of the apartment. It took me another 40 minutes to roll up the fabric, and put stuff away enough to see my bed. In the morning I did some more of the same cause we had some people coming to clean the carpets (finally!).

So during lunchtime today my office had a fun little meeting. One of our guys went on some building tour in Santa Monica, and he wanted to tell our office about it. It was kind of interesting, mostly because the bosses bought us lunch, but a lot of it reminded me of school. I had a handful of classes while in school that dealt with the issues that were discussed, namely 'Green' Building design, ie. making buildings more eco-friendly. It was really basic, and by the end, the whole consensus of the office was, 'We should start recycling our used paper again'. After all, not to many professions will print off a 18"x24" (or sometimes 30"x42") sheet of paper just to see how a drawing will look on that paper. So we're going to start to look into recycling. Toward the end of the meeting I was REALLY bored, so I started taking pictures with my camera, which had been in my pocket.

Lunch was sponsored by the Corner Bakery, and hosted by my Office.

I'm listening to the sweet sounds of silence right now. Its a nice change from lots of talking, or yelling, or sirens.