Yabba Dabba Do

OK first, sorry to have left Harvey up there so long. It was late at night when I stumbled across him and I may have been a little loopy. "Talk about the Taurus... talk about the bully bull bull" I meant to post something else soon afterwards, but then I got busy and forgot I had left up something so lame.

So let's see, my classes on the weekends have started up again and are underway. The only hitch so far is that one of the weeks I was supposed to have class, the school now has a conflict and said I can't be there. (What's the point of the contract then? I don't know) AND they wouldn't let me make it up on a different date either. So, I am out a week and it sucks. I am getting pretty fed up with my venue in general. They used to be very accommodating, but now I often feel like we always get the short end of the stick. It's often a huge hassle to deal with them. It all makes me want to take my rent money and spend it someplace else. Well, I say that, but actually finding a new venue can be a lot of work, and although I like to complain, I am not sure I am up for the hassle of actually finding a new place. So really, I am just hoping that a new option magically falls into my lap. We'll see what my witchy mind control powers can do.

We are now 5 days away from my 5k race. That strikes a little bit of panic into my heart. Dude asked me if I was excited. No, no I am not. Scared and nervous, yes. Excited? Not so much. I just... it's totally out of my element. I have never been a runner, I haven't run in "public" since high school soccer practice, I've never even attended a race before. (well, except the one year that the TC Marathon was routed past my parent's house when I was a kid- but I was pretty young, so I don't remember much about it at all.) In fact, I was supposed to run today, but I didn't. So the plan is to run on Thursday, and then maybe a little walk on Sat, and then just show up on Sunday and run. I've got a time in my head I am hoping to beat- but I am slow, so really, I just want to finish and not look like a goofball while I am running and I will be happy with that.

I am not sure if it's the running or just age, but it seems like my feet are getting bigger. *cry* None of my closed toe shoes seem comfortable at all anymore. A lot of women have this happen to them while they are pregnant, but it never happened to me. Aside from some summertime swelling, my feet stayed the same size all the way through. But now, I swear they've grown at least half a size and require a wide width. I have Flintstone feet! I don't know what is going on. Every shoe I've tried on (even on the rare occasion when I can find them in Flintstone size) has been too small and narrow. I started with very large feet in the first place, so this is completely unfair. I've got some shoes that I ordered online coming in, let's hope there is something comfortable in there. If that is a bust, I may need to make a road trip up to Ben Franklin.