Simple silhouettes and cutouts...

I am now a Pampered Chef consultant. I went to a party last week and I figured it was a good way to make a little money while my job search continues goes nowhere.

To all my friends out there in the far reaches of the US, I invite you to do a catalog party with me since I can't actually pester you to host a show for me.

If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll give you all the info. It's pretty easy and you can buy awesome and cool kitchen gadgets!

So, on Sunday there were very bad riots in the the Xinjiang province. As a result most social networking sites are blocked. I don't really understand that. I feel for the lives that were lost as a result of the riots but I don't understand the governments ideology of blocking things when it comes to situations like this...especially when it's so sporadic. I can get to livejournal and share this with my friends, but not facebook...it makes no sense.

I'm in China, just wanted to say hi :)

China is a go.

May 19 - June 17 I will live in the IEP house at URI and take an intensive introductory Chinese course.

June 18 - July 19 I will be at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China taking the second Chinese course.

I'm pretty excited. The only thing that could make this better would be a travel buddy. Any takers? ;) It's fairly cheap for all that you get.

Check it out!

Would anyone like to go to see The Decemberists on June 9th? We have two tickets up for grabs, $50 each.

I've had a fun and busy few days. I have a fun and busy (with some quite unfun things mixed in) next few days. I was going to write about it, but I'm exhausted. Maybe after the whole stretch is over. Consider this a teaser.

Anyone around here interested in going to see the Flight of the Conchords in Boston tomorrow? My friends have an extra ticket that they are looking to unload.

1. Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Your significant other? n/a
3. Your hair? fluffy
4. Your mother? working
5. Your father? home
6. Your favorite thing? buffalo
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your favorite drink? taro
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. What room you are in? 210
11. Your hobby? running
12. Your fear? failure
13. Regrets? none
14. Where were you last night? home
16. Muffins? pumpkin
17. Wish list item? keyboard
18. Where you grew up? Warwick
19. Last thing you did? bus
20. What are you wearing? clothes
21. Your TV? home
22. Your pets? none
23. Friends? fantastic
24. Your life? BUSY
25. Your mood? tired
26. Missing someone? yes
27. Car? messy
28. Something you're not wearing? jacket
29. Your favorite store? target
30. Your favorite color? red
33. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
34. Last time you cried? thursday
35. Who will resend this? you!
36. One place that I go to over and over? ireland
37. One person who emails me regularly? grandma
38. My favorite place to eat? home
39. Why you participated in this survey? boredom
40. What are you doing tonight? trivia

I have a job interview!

Library Commons Assistant at Providence College.

Walking distance, could it get any more perfect?

Sara
the mob runs everything

Ryan
That's my contention
and I don't want to step on their toes because then I'd be found dead, drowned in a vat of Autocrat coffee syrup.

Sara
and as delicious as that might be you're still dead at the end of the day

Ryan
Also sticky

Here are some pictures from my skydive in Nevada, it was so much fun!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/sara.day/Skydiving?feat=directlink

I'm leaving on Friday and I'll be back on Monday, January 5th.

While I'm gone I'll be posting to a blog dedicated just to the trip...if you want to follow along:
pididdle.wordpress.com

Also, my flickr site will be updated as I can (depending on where I have internet access):
www.flickr.com/photos/saraday

Read, enjoy, comment! My screen name will also be on mobile so if you want to send me messages feel free :) (AIM: SaraLD42 for those that don't have it)

See you all next year!!

Is it bad that I'm eating with chopsticks at home because there were no clean forks and I was too lazy to wash one?

I decided that I'm going to take some time after I graduate and go somewhere that I have never been before.

Right now I'm thinking Greece, but I have a lot of time to decide.

Any suggestions?

Nothing really beats wondering the streets of Providence in the middle of the night. I just wish I could have slept in this morning.

Knee still sucks. I haven't been able to get any good exercise in lately and it's making me grumpy. I was really proud of myself and happy I was seeing results but now it's probably going to come to a standstill while I heal. I have seen real progress though. The emergency, size 12, pants I bought when my 10's were too tight are now too lose so that is something to celebrate in this whole endeavor.

I don't even know what is wrong with my knee. This is sort of the same thing that happened to my left knee in '06 but even then it was just some sort of mystery ailment. I went to the doctor, had x-rays and no one saw anything really wrong...it was just uncomfortable and making interesting sounds. It is a little worse with my right knee this time around because it's actually swelling, but even that has gone down considerably, I just really hope this isn't a long term problem.

I signed up for the CVS Downtoan 5K that is on 9/21 and I really want to be able to do it, but right now it's looking like it is going to be a 5K walk more than anything. Walking is still good for me, but I want to be a runner! Maybe I'll get there some day.

Mike found a Wii Fit last week so I've been playing that almost every day and it's so addictive. I played for almost an hour last night just trying to get a perfect score in the soccer ball game. He also grabbed his DDR from his old house and I've been trying that too as a form of less strenuous exercise. I'm pretty uncoordinated so it's been interesting so far but that is addictive to and I really like it and it *almost* makes up for not being able to run except for the fact that after active video game time my knee still feels funky.

In other news...today marks my one year mark as a graduate student counselor at Enrollment Services. It's kind of sad, but it's been the longest I've held a steady, almost every day kind of job. I did work at the tutoring center for almost two years but that was more fun than anything else and it didn't have the same restrictions as regular employment. So, I'm happy and proud for all my recent acheivements :)

( Workout stuff... )

( Other tidbits... )

Other than that life is kind of boring. I'm working more, and waiting for classes to start so I can get a break from the monotony.

Week 2: Run 1 minutes/ Walk 4 minutes, repeat 9 times

Saturday morning I did my last of workout for week 2 and I totally wanted to die. I had done the previous two workouts in the evening slightly before it was turning dark and it was a manageable temperature outside. Saturday morning around 10/11 was just deadly...but I completed the whole thing and felt extremely proud, albeit very sweaty and melty feeling as well. Two weeks down and 9 to go until this workout is over and I can move on to bigger and better things. I Think I may want to try for a 5K race at some point in the future.

All in all, I'm feeling good and I'm glad to be doing this. :)


( iPod Nike+ stats and route map (if you're interested) )

A week from Friday I'm meeting with people at the Brown Sciences Library about the possibility of an internship. I'm pretty stoked, yay!!

I successfully did all three workouts of week one! Although I was rather tired on Friday so I put off that workout until Saturday morning. I wish I could motivate myself to wake up early enough to workout in the morning during the week because it was so much nicer; it was less warm, the sun was much less direct and just overall a better experience. My pace was increasingly slower, I attribute that to the longer walking time on day two, but I'm not really sure why I was so slow in Saturday.

Overall though I'm enjoying working out and feeling like I'm actually doing something. I can already feel slight differences. After the first day my legs were so sore and wobbly until the next run, but Thursday and Sunday I barely felt it more than a couple hours afterwards.

I bought a scale so I can actually monitor any progress that I might be making and now I want a heartrate monitor (thanks bambier!) but they are a bit pricey so I'll probably hold off a bit.

Most of all, I'm proud of myself (and Heather!) for keeping with this. I've tried in the past and usually didn't make it the whole week, so go us!

iPod Nike+ stats from Week 1:
( 7/7/08 )

7/9/08
Distance: 3.27 mi
Time: 48.56 min
Pace: 14.57 min/mi
Calories: 383

7/12/08
Distance: 2.67 mi
Time: 40.58 min
Pace: 15.17 min/mi
Calories: 314

Now on to Week Two! (Run 1 minutes/ Walk 4 minutes, repeat 9 times)