Another day.

Cathy and I sent Cait off to Senegal today... I'm going to miss her a lot, but I'm sure we'll talk as often as possibly. She may even be reading this now - Cait, get blogging, I want to hear about your life in Africa!

After we said goodbye, we got some frozen yogurt at this new place by my house... I feel like I'm going to be eating a lot of frozen yogurt this summer, haha. It's like Pinkberry style but cheaper. After that, I just came home and chilled. Got through the 30 Day Shred again after a two day break. I'm going to be sore all day tomorrow while I'm ushering for the jazz festival at my school. But it's totally worth it... 7 hours as head usher will earn me a little money. I really wish I had a steady job this summer, but it's not worth getting one right now since I'll have classes more than twice a week at the end of June. Meh.

Anyway, that's really it. Another summer day. Later!

- Jill

Yesterday!

I got up much earlier than I normally do - 6 AM. Didn't really get out of bed until 6:30, but I made sure to give myself that time. Showered, made myself pretty, and went out the door with an apple in hand to go to my first day of graduate school classes. I nommed my mini breakfast during my commute, which was surprisingly low on traffic until I got into town. But I managed to get to class a little early!

The first class was School and Society - I have a feeling I'm not going to enjoy this class. I generally don't like sociology courses. I participated and everything, but I think that class consists of a lot of people bullshitting and talking/arguing about things that are basically common sense. And there's a ridiculous amount of reading to do... Either way, I'll get through it.

After a quick solo lunch at a pizza place, I went to the library and read a little bit before my second class - The Adolescent Learner. That's going to be an interesting class. It's less about studying school as an institution (like my other class) and more about actual classroom stuff. Classroom management, educational psychology, theories of development... I'm pretty excited about it. The professor seems pretty cool, too. At least he made 3 hours go by relatively painlessly.

When I was all done with classes I headed to Cathy's house to pick her up so we could go see Iron Man 2. I was a little worried I'd be lost because I haven't seen the first one. I did sort of know the premise, though, so I was able to figure out what I was missing. Anyway, the movie was totally awesome! Cathy and I agreed that most of the fight scenes were weirdly short, though. But I didn't really care because RDJ kind of melts me into a puddle.

After the movie we hit a nearby diner for some food and to meet up with Cait. The lady at the diner was really nice and let us stay late - she even let Cait in after closing since we were totally unaware that the place was closing at 10 and she got there a while after us. We felt sort of bad just sitting there chatting when we were done eating so we left and went back to Cathy's house and chatted for a couple hours. That was really nice, to just hang out. I hadn't seen them since Spring Break and Cathy's leaving for California for the month on Saturday and Cait is leaving for Senegal for a YEAR. That's right. Pretty much all of my friends will not be anywhere near me geographically for quite some time. As depressing as that is, I guess it will give me time for all the reading I have to do for class... blah.

Anyway, tonight Cathy is coming over for dinner tonight and maybe my parents and I can convince her to come on vacation with us to Florida in August! But that's just about it for now. Till next time!

- Jill

Since I'm currently running on adrenaline alone...

The post about today's excitement (read: actual activity, not utter laziness) will have to wait until tomorrow. Or really, later today. Brief summary: had first classes of graduate school, saw Iron Man 2, went to a diner, hung out with my 2 best friends from home relatively late into the night regardless of the fact that my whole body is aching from yesterday's workout (skipped today's... got home too late) and I'm running on about 5 hours of sleep.

Will fill in the details when I get up later!

- Jill

My armsssss.

Started the 30 Day Shred today. I'm totally able to do all of the exercises for strength and cardio and abs... except for the push-ups. I mean, I can feel my muscles burning for everything but it's a good burn and I can push through it. But I literally feel like I am going to fall down and die when I do push-ups. I'll keep trying to do them, but I'd rather substitute with some other strength exercise so I'm not seeing stars by the end of the 20 minute workout. Either way, I know I'm going to be sore in the morning.

I also have acquired all 12 books (that is for 3/5 classes that I'm taking) that I need for the summer. 12. That I'll probably have to read all of before the summer is over. And the aren't like novels. They are textbooks. Well, a couple are more like novels. This is going to be a rough summer. At least the reading I've done so far isn't really boring.

Another short entry from me - hopefully I'll have more interesting things to say tomorrow after my first day of graduate school classes!

- Jill

P.S. - Rabbit rabbit! When the hell did it get to be June?!