Things

It's been so long since I've written anything. There hasn't been too much interesting going on, and I just haven't been in much mood to write.

I've gotten pretty good at going to the gym consistently and running. I managed to run two miles the other day and completed a whole 5K in slightly under 45 minutes. My main goal is to actually be able to run a 5K. But tonight I had a hard time even running a mile. This turned out to be because they updated the software on the treadmills. I ended up running uphill without realizing it. Once I finished and discovered that the treadmill was inclined more than I'd intended I was actually fairly proud of myself for completing a mile.

They're altering the bus routes and changing the roads near my house which has caused a bunch of headaches. A three-way stop turned into a 4-way stop causing me to nearly be t-boned a few times. People don't even look in one direction because they don't expect a car from there. And they got rid of a right turn lane. Now I get honked at when I don't turn right at the stop light by my house. So few people go straight through that light that no one expects me to, and they feel a burning need to alert me to the fact that I can go when I actually can't.

See how boring my life is? These are the things weighing on my mind right now.

I finished Cat's Cradle a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't come up with anything to say about it beyond "it's absurd and delightful". So that's what I'm leaving you with. I liked it. I'm definitely going to add some more Kurt Vonnegut to my library.

I swear I won't be this boring forever. I have lots of thoughts about The Name of the Wind, which I'm nearly done with. I'm tossing around an idea for a post about the prophecies in A Song of Ice and Fire, but I need to do more research for that one. Which is to say I need to look up the wording of the various prophecies, and that's incredibly difficult to do on a kindle. I kind of want to buy physical copies of those books.

The boyfriend and I are in the process of adopting a dog. Which is to stay we've submitted an application, but haven't done more than that. So expect more news on the front at some point, too.

I just haven't been the most exciting person lately. Perhaps that will change with the weather?