• I have started running. Well, jogging, really. I never saw myself as a jogger. When they made us run in gym class in junior high, I was always the person who walked half the way and wound up with a 1K time of like, 15 minutes. People who would go running for fun totally confused me. I started “jogging, not running” out of a kind of health-based desperation. My current job as a grad student involves a lot of sitting very still and watching movies. Also, the only fun thing to do in Vancouver is go to restaurants. As a result, I have put on a bunch of weight since I have moved here, despite the fact that I mostly eat pretty well and do an insane amount of walking. To combat that, and also because the inertia was setting in, I have started jogging. At first, it was horrible, but I kept doing it because of the aforementioned ever-expanding ass situation. And all of a sudden, it started being fun! Or at least, not horrible. Kind of pleasant. Oddly satisfying, even. Especially when I am running back toward my house and the sun is shining and I can see the mountains in the distance and Martha Wainwright is singing about when they day is short; this is a nice feeling. Hopefully I will start losing weight soon.
  • It is a bad week in TV: there was the LAST GILMORE GIRLS EVER, my beloved soul-lady Melinda was voted off American Idol, and Veronica Mars is over! (I’m sure I will write a long pretentious post bemoaning Veronica Mars’s cancellation and its many ups and downs after the big finale next week.) At least things are looking up for Jim and Pam.
  • I’ve declared 2007 the year of the sundress. I don’t know why, I am just really into dresses this year. I got this amazing pleated-skirt one from Banana Republic: it’s a soft blue, with like, see-through crepey silk, and then it has a separate slip to match in more traditional type-silk. It was originally $225. I paid $55. Booyah.
  • It is really easy to fill the time being unemployed. I just got my tax return money, which combined with my grading job, totally is enough to hold me over for at least a couple of months, so I am not very motivated to job-hunt. However, there are many compelling financial reasons for me not to start next school year flat broke, so I am trying to focus on those and get my resume into a temp agency or two. Then, oh ho, a-temping I will go.