For Alice!

Alice requested I update the blog, which I find funny because usually I’m the one nudging folks to update update update!

Man, I really can’t wait for the year to turn once around. I can’t wait to see where we all end up in July 2010. With Andy having graduated, Sarah and Roger nearing the 6-month prospectus, and me trailing somewhere behind there’s just a lot going on. Layered within the graduation stuff is Andy looking for a job, which isn’t ever easy. Sprinkled on top of it all is a million random challenges large and small. Life seems just too big right now. It can be exhausting. My favorite joke continues to be “years from now we’ll look back at this time and laugh at all the craziness” although I’m not going to claim to know whether it’ll be laughing over how simple a time it was in comparison to the life we’ll be living.

My docket is continually full, but who isn’t busy these days?

On a personal/hobby level: I’m still running with Bethany. I’m still teaching Intermediate Practice for the UW Bellydance Club, taking the Summer Techniques class at the Madison Multicultural Dance Studio, and laughing at myself (due to lack of street cred) in Arielle’s Hip Hop Bellydance Fusion class. And the Isadora workshop is coming up next week, and I’m super excited about that. I’m still crocheting up a storm, although I’ve finished my shawl and on the lookout for a new project.

On a professional level: a recent publication nearly scooped the paper I’ve been working on, so that’s lit a fire underneath both me and my boss to get this paper out the door. No new experiments. I’m in writing lockdown. I’m constantly overwhelmed, but using my experience in running to just keep moving my feet, one in front of the other, towards a distant finish line. I’m not allowed to worry about anything else but getting the paper done. I haven’t decided what my reward is for completing it. I rewarded my completion of the Couch to 5K program with a massage. Andy thinks I should allow myself to get the latest edition of The Sims (which is total Amber crack). I’m thinking maybe something less time consuming. . .

Life is just so big these days that it is exhausting. That’s how it sums up currently. That’s why I’m excited for a year from now. Andy and I might have new jobs, and maybe a house complete with a lady Labrador and a Gentleman pug if we’re lucky. Maybe we’ll actually be able to take a vacation, or even just live a little more slowly. Who knows? See you there :)