rainy day

i woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of rain falling outside my open window. it's been so dry here lately. finally, some rain and cool weather; i think it's finally time to plant that fall garden.

yesterday was full of projects that i had been putting off for the last 3 months in the fog of my work/run/eat/sleep routine. (see, no "projects" present in that sequence) liv bought some beautiful curtains for our house which have languished in the bike closet now for almost a month. with my free day yesterday, they finally went up.

where we live, curtains are more important than you might initially believe. see, our neighborhood is a cohousing community with passive and active solar houses, rainwater collection, and best of all, no cars. (ulysses can run all around the neighborhood off leash without fear of being run over)

living in a space with only pedestrian walkways also means that our neighbors are close and our windows large. this creates an effect that we lovingly call "the ant farm." when you walk by our neighbors' houses, you can see everything their doing through those large windows.

curtains. problem solved. here's liv enjoying (ahem, maybe not enjoying so much) studying for cardio, privacy courtesy of my project.

a quick trip to the local hardware store (less than a mile from my house, independent and locally owned), and i had all the materials i needed.

the long run went great. i didn't even feel tired after a solid 18 miles. philly, here i come!



after that run, i joined christina and neil for brownie sundaes at their house. it was supposed to be intern night, but we were the only ones that were free. it ended up being a great night. christina is about to have a baby any day now, and i'm grateful for the chance to sit down and get to know them one-on-one before the baby craziness begins.

this morning, there was a lull in the rain just long enough to allow molly and i to head out for a 5 mile (for me, recovery) run in the most beautiful weather imaginable.

training is going swimmingly, but there's one thing that's missing. vegtables. i recently read an article in the times commenting on how, big surprise, our entire country has a problem with this. now that our CSA is finished for the season,  it takes a bit of effort to purchase vegtables and prepare them creatively every single day.

i consider myself almost fanatic about staying in shape and taking care of my body, but i struggle with this. fruits are no problem. i can fill my lunchbox with fruit before a shift and eat it over the course of my 12 hours in the ER. it's easy to throw an apple, banana, plum, pear in my bag. a bunch of kale, not so much. i'm going to work on this in the coming weeks. it'll be a special challenge, as i'll be on the road for most of the next 2 wks.

last item of business: i finally found a guy blogger that seems like a normal person. i saw his blog on theshubox, because he and shu are real-life friends.

more projects today, including paperwork for my moonlighting job, and then packing and planning for our trip to the mountains.