fun times

I've had a good past few days y'all. Not to say that most of my days aren't good, these past few ones just had lots of fun things happening.

Thursday after work I went to hear a friend read poetry in a garden at UVA. It was lovely except sometimes I couldn't hear very well over all the noisy birds and squirrels. Afterwards there was a reception, and then several of us went out to dinner.

Friday a few of my co-workers and I went to the outdoor crepes place downtown for lunch. I had never been there, so it was nice to finally go. That was followed with a quick stop at the bakery before heading back to work. After work I met up with people to watch a church softball game (a real nail-biter that went into overtime!), and then went to a party.

Saturday I stayed in and worked on my final project for school most of the day. (Did you remember I'm still in school?) Then I went for a warmup 3+ mile run, followed by a 2-mile race at 8pm at a high school track. I ran the same race last year. It's very small and mostly filled with walkers, but for those of us who want to do the marathon training program over the summer (that's right!) it's the perfect way to get in a 2-mile time trial without going to the track at 5:30am on a Wednesday. I shaved 1:05 off of last year's time, and once again got third woman overall. (And speaking of running, the local running shop named me one of their "runners of the week" a couple weeks ago for my marathon, and my coach mentioned me and my marathon in his weekly running column in the paper. That's kind of exciting.) After the race (and a shower) I went to another party, followed by a drink downtown.

Sunday I slept in, worked on my project some more, and then met up with a friend for lunch. After that I finished my project (It's a website, if you must know. I'm getting a PhD in history but they make us learn html and css.), then went to church at 5. And church was followed by going to another friend's for a crawfish boil! So I ate my first crawfish. Plus a lot more crawfish.

It was an excellent weekend.