I guess I run now

Have had a very productive couple of days. Tuesday hubby was planning to be in at school all day, so I walked to the coffeehouse & wrote for 3 hours, then moved to one of the local brew pubs to (eat, drink, and) write for another two hours, then walked to hubby’s office, worked a bit more, & rode home with him. Got a lot of work done on one article I want to send out & even a little on a second…I’ve been revising these two articles  for over a year (although the material in both originally came from my diss, so they’ve been with me for over 4 years now, eh gads), so I’d like to see them on their merry way before the end of the summer.

Yesterday I got a lot of work done on two course syllabi…one for our intro writing class (you know, the dreaded composition class all First-Year students hate) and one for a grad-level class designed to show our composition instructors how to incorporate more multi-modal, online assignments (like composing websites, podcasts, videos, blogs) into their composition classes. I love writing syllabi…something about the format & the voice I get to use that makes writing them a blast. I’m teaching the comp course in the fall & the grad course next spring, so I’ve got a little time to tweak both syllabi before I get in the classroom.

Not much exercise yesterday. We helped a friend move, so I made a point of working steady, moving mostly boxes, for  1 1/2 hours…not too many steps, but it felt like a little bit of a workout. Let’s call yesterday my cross-training day.

This morning I’ve already finished up some busy work & now I’m going for a lovely walk & then spending the day writing. Tonight I want to start getting hubby’s house organized for his move (and for the tenant he got to rent the place who arrives in August!).  The diet’s not been great lately…did I mention the brew pub? & with moving yesterday, dinner was a slice of pizza, misc cheese & crackers, fruit salad, carrot cake, and some (3?4?) beers.

I’m thinking that until the move is done (my movers are coming on the 17th now, instead of the 22nd), I’ll just watch what I eat, try to get as many veggies into me as possible, keep the walking/running going, and shoot to maintain my weight. I know this isn’t the best approach…I mean, surrendering my dieting ideals when the going gets a little tough sounds defeatist, but I don’t want to add guilt on top of stress just cause I’m off plan for a couple of weeks. & frankly, I’m dreading the thought of balancing summer work while trying to get two houses packed up, cleaned, and moved into a third house. UGH!

Okay, enough stressing myself out, I’m off to walk the portage.

Cheers ya’ll!