This is what procrastination looks like...

Yup, I'm half tidying the apartment, half doing homework, and half thinking of a million things. I know, three halves don't make a whole, but that's what my brain feels like right now.

So. I did it. Finally.

That's right. I hauled my hiney outside and went for a run. I'm not entirely sure when the last time I ran was, but I think it's safe to say it was in 2011. Usually I have a fall slump where I kind of don't run regularly and tend to pick it up again in December/January. Which is weird, since I love running in the fall, but it doesn't happen that much. At least this year I was biking to work from July - October. Not bad, considering I only used to bike twice a week and only in the summers the year before.


I'd still like to train for a spring race, so if I want to do that, I need to get my mileage up. (I prefer kilometers, but not sure if 'kilometrage' is a word, heheh.) This morning, I went for a modest 6 km run, and it felt mostly good except at the beginning when my right knee was declaring mutiny.

Here's a few things that I really enjoy about running or that surround the activity of running.

A nice little hamstring stretch just after a run is a wonderful thing.

A glass of chocolate milk following a run is also pretty great. Miam. And maybe some eggs with spinach and cheese and rye toast.And coffee with some vanilla sugar:) Hmm...you know what they say - some people eat to run, and some people run to eat - which one do you think I could be? ;)

Reflective stuff to wear. It's cool.

That's pretty much all I have to say about that for now. :)

Something I'm thankful for (in the sense of trying to maintain it as an attitude) is the fact that I get to study French. I was worried that I wouldn't like it, but it turns out I do (most days). Not only that, but I get to interact in French at least twice a week, and that's something I never even got to do living back home, even so close to Ottawa/Quebec. I'm grateful for the members of the francophone community I get to encounter. It's been vital to my vocabulary, although, granted, most of that vocabulary revolves around kids and stuff about kids, but that's the job. ;) It's been so great to have that base of French as a child, because you really do use more and think more in French than you realize, and it's an unequivocal blessing to me. Maybe I'm biased, but I think it's one of the best languages ever and I hope to keep learning and implementing it.

Okay, back to studying adverbs and another chapter I haven't really looked at. ;) Woo!

Bonne semaine à tous! xo