March 20, 2005
Mother Nature Knows it is Spring
Alison was right. Today was a much better day than yesterday. Writing about it did make me feel much better. It was an opportunity to vent safely. We all have those days. I believe that it was an evil combination of lack of sleep, frustration, and feeling underappreciated. I think that the being so tired really caught up with me yesterday, since this morning my mom said that I looked really bad yesterday.
Last night I did not do anything. After dinner, we sat down and watched The Village. It was not scary at all. In fact, I just thought that it had an interesting story. I really wanted to watch it since the filming was done off of one of the roads that I run on during some of my Saturday morning runs. It was funny, because when it was being filmed, we knew something was going on over there, but we really did not know what. After the movie came out, it was big news around here.
I went to bed really early and then slept until about 8:30 this morning. I was still a little bit tired today. I truly believe that I was having a difficult time recovering since I had made such a big sleep defecit. I woke up to spring showers that have stuck around all day. The rain was never really heavy, but there was enough rain to make it pretty dreary. To put a positive spin on it, the rain is needed to help with the flowers that will be blooming soon enough.
My run this morning was better than any other run this week. I did not feel great by any means, but my stride was feeling closer to my natural stride. Again, I needed to remind myself that racing a half-marathon is stressful on the body and it takes time to recover. I did seven miles and then did 4 striders. The neighbors must think that I am crazy when I do striders and drills up and down our street. We have enough weird neighbors, that in my opinion, doing striders up and down the street is not all that crazy.
The rest of today involved doing errands that I would normally do on a Saturday. Due to being in bed most of the day yesterday, I got absolutely nothing accomplished. I got keys cut for a co-worker, finally bought a wedding gift and looked for Easter candy. I struck out on the candy, but I don't need the candy for anything other than being indulgent.
This week is a short week at work. Things are getting really bad, so bad that every day I contemplate packing up all of my belongings and never going back. There is a staff meeting on Tuesday that I really do not want to attend. Our administration does not really give us any support, most of the time everything any of us does is wrong. The administration constanty undermines the decisions of the staff and does so in front of the students. There are also certain individuals on the staff who think they know everything about everything, even when they do not. Tuesday is looking like a good day to be sick.
Posted by Blondie at March 20, 2005 07:12 PM
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I hope you have a better week this week! One thing I personally love about my blog is the ability to vent and to get my negative emotions out in some capacity instead of letting them boil up. It's like therapy.
Good luck with work, the staff meeting, and running this week blondie!
Posted by: Barb at March 21, 2005 11:01 AM