Motivation

Lately I have been meaning to start running again, because I hear talk it's healthy for people to excercise once and a while. Too bad I can't seem to find the motivation or drive to actually don my running shoes and jog around the neighborhood - I keep finding excuses for why i shouldn't run - like "oh the wind is really picking up" or "i think we are about to have a storm..." neither of which are really true, and even if the wind is picking up, what do i expect will happen? the wind will be so strong it will pick me up and send me hurtling into the bay? I embarass myself with my lame excuses. Anyways, I guess sometimes the really difficult part of running is actually getting out there. Once i get out there, I know i could do it. I just need to suck it up and get out there... Wish me luck!!

Kick Hard or Go Home

For a fun day of shenanigans this year, my class dean decided that we should have an all out kickball tournament, pitting advisor group against advisor group. Naturally, my advisors were thrilled to find out we had a chance to prove our awesomeness through physical activity. We got seriously into it, donning group t-shirts and a cleverly devised nickname "the Shinmates". Unfortunately for us however, we seem to have overlooked one important skill necessary for winning ANY kind of sporting event, athleticism. The shinmates were "shincompetent" when it came to winning a game. Yours truly even managed to get a bit roughed up in the process of losing miserably. On the plus side though, we had a lot of fun since no one was truly bent on winning, and we managed to win a game in the end! Well, I'm off to manage the 3rd degree burns I have on my face after not thinking ahead and packing sunscreen for our all day sports extravaganza... Oh, the trials of being pale...

Cooking Catastrophe

School Projects can bring out the best and worst of your abilities to think fast, make deadlines, and be creative. Unfortunately, during a recent Spanish Project in which I had to make an authentic hispanic dish, I failed all the above criteria, and managed to make the worst food possible. My first mistake was choosing an authentic Spanish chocolate mousse recipe that was so authentic, it used the metric system for the ingredients! I wouldn't even know where to start putting in 2 DESERT SPOONS of sugar! what is a desert spoon anyway? A really small spoon? It seems like it would be easier if the whole world decided on a global measurement that was easily understood by everyone. My greatest error of all though was not reading the entire directions and skipping the butter that I was supposed to put in step 1. After I had finished making the mousse I had to hastily add in all the butter and when it hadn't melted properly, there were chunks of butter in my mousse. It was horrific. Needless to say the last thing that went wrong is the mousse never solidifying, making it look more like brownie batter then anything else. The lesson I learned the hard way, besides the fact that no one in their right mind tried my "mousse" was that cooking should be left to the professionals, and not me.