Chest Pain

So a girl in my class has started doing a 'boot camp' several times a week. Basically she comes up with a workout routine using weights, balancing balls, resistance bands and the bleachers. It kicked my butt. Everything is done for one minute straight, in a series of fours with a one minute break between the four minute chunks. My wimpy chest is still sore from, I guess the cardio? Not sure. If it's possible for your heart to be sore from doing cardio, then that's what's going on right now. But I'm going to try to go at least once a week.

Tomorrow the Summer IM sports begin and I'm on one team. The sport is volleyball. No I don't know how to play. But I guess I'll learn. If I can do that every Wednesday, the boot camp once a week and then go to Golds for one of their classes once a week, I think I'll be in a good routine. Getting out of my old workout routine has killed me.

Law school makes it so easy to not go because there's always more work that could be done. And when not working it's so tempting to take naps. I'm going to try really hard to at least stay in some sort of shape during each quarter. If I can manage to maintain my size/weight for the next 2.5 years I'll be doing really well.

Homesickness subsided today as I hit the ground running. I keep thinking tomorrow is my hard day of the week, because it was last quarter, but it's not. Thursday is the hard day.

And now for something totally different: Toast.
Anyone who eats with me on a regular basis knows I go through cycles of being stuck on certain foods or beverages. My last addiction was juice. I had to break myself of it by going cold turkey and I still have to struggle if I want to keep any juice in my apartment, because if I'm not careful I'll drink it all in one day or maybe two. Right now Toast is reigning in the addiction block. I'm not sure why. I hadn't eaten bread for awhile (I mean, I'd had rolls and stuff when out at dinner, but I hadn't been eating bread at home). And now it's all I can seem to think of. Out this past weekend, having a drink and I wanted toast. While sitting in Property today, wanted toast. Right now, I want toast. And I don't want anything on it. Just toast, slightly overdone by most people's standards, but perfectly done by mine. I bought the 9 Grain Honey Wheat bread and it makes damn good toast. There's little, I guess seeds or something in there (not on the top, in the actual bread) that become so crunchy and yummy when toasted.

Oddly, I don't care for this type of bread if it's not toasted. I thought I would, but those little seeds create an odd texture differential (lol, don't know that that's a phrase or makes sense). When not toasted (the bread, not me) the bread is too soft when coupled with the crunchy seeds. If the were just on top it would be okay, but for some reason having those little crunchy things in the soft bread just isn't okay with me. Maybe because my mind automatically thinks it's some sort of bug. When toasted, this is not a problem. The bread becomes firm enough to support the seeds.

And that was entirely too much on toast. Having discussed it to death, I'm going to go make some, and then finish some homework. If you've read this far, I'm amazed, because I'm not sure I would have.