Subject: My seasonal workout regiment.

Spring: Mega-motivated to work out. Also, I really enjoy running when the weather is nice and warm and you can actually sweat without it freezing on your forehead. The track at my old high school and the track at the Sherman complex are my all-time favorite places to run. I really like tracks... some people think they suck because there is no scenery change, but I think that's the best thing. It helps me focus. Anyway, I am always running in the spring, especially here at school because it helps to relieve end-of-the-year stresses.

Summer: Once again, in workout overdrive. I love to run first thing in the morning in pants and long sleeved shirts when it is 85 degrees out. I love the feeling of being completely soaked in sweat and then coming home and cooling down and showering. It's the best feeing ever. I admit to falling into a slump once the humidity hits 90 percent at the end of the summer. But until then, I'm all into it.

Fall: Here is where I begin to suffer. My once wonderful workout time is now consumed with classes and marching band. It's sad but it's true. On occasion I have a free hour and a half where I can run and shower before class or something. That's nice, but it doesn't come often enough so I end up being sore and not able to walk for 3 days. Hmm.

Winter: My all-time low. I am consumed by coldness, which makes it hard to get motivated to have a nice workout. I stick mostly to pilates because I am so afraid of running outside in the cold. (I have this theory that if you run in the winter your lungs will eventually pop, and that doesn't sound like fun to me. Other people disprove my theory all the time, but I still think it holds true to me.) I have been doing really well lately, tons of pilates and push-ups and trying to keep myself moving in any way possible.

Subject: My fear of electric bathroom items.

Item #1: the toothbrush.
I started to fear the toothbrush when I first tried to use it. I put the toothpaste on it and turned it on, which made the toothpaste spin around really fast and then fly off in any direction. By this, I deduced that you're supposed to turn it on inside your mouth. When I did that, I couldn't figure out how to keep all the toothpaste in my mouth instead of drooling it all over my shirt while I was trying to contort my mouth into different shapes to get all of my teeth.
That was over the summer. I have since mastered the art of the electric toothbrush.

Item #2: the waterpik
The waterpik is something my dental hygienist suggested to keep my wisdom teeth clean. (My fear of the removal of my wisdom teeth FAR SURPASSES my fear of electric bathroom items so much so that it drives me to use the scary toothbrush and waterpik more often) For those of you not in the know, it's a giant handheld thing that you stick in your mouth and turn on and it forcefully expels a strong jet of water to remove all of the stuff from around your teeth. I gave it a try, and I don't know how many of my teeth it cleaned, but it certainly cleaned my bathroom. There was water all over the mirror in front of me, the faucet head, the edges of the basin, everything. But I was smart and the second time I used it, I did it over the bathtub. :) I'm getting better but it's still a pretty intimidating-looking contraption.

I can put little faith into a school who makes everyone walk and drive to classes when it is snowing like a mo-fo out, and then cancels classes once it stops snowing.

I'm serious, this is what happened yesterday.

UCONN... what the hell is wrong with you?!