Wogging

Tony and his Dad both RUN. His Dad ran the NY Marathon back in November, and both of them did an Olympic length triathlon last summer. So Tony's Mom and I started joking over dinner one night that since neither one of us can run, we should start 'wogging' - walking/jogging. So finally, five months later, I went out this early afternoon and 'wogged' in order to try to blow some of the nervous tension out of my system. I went for 27 minutes - run 1.5-2 minutes, walk 2.5 minutes, and got not very far. I'm guessing about a mile and a half, though I may take the car out later and figure it out. I'm also hoping that if I can build up a bit of endurance, I won't be dying by the end of ballet.

I missed some ballet classes in the last term, so I made them up in the jazz class right before my ballet class and got completely hooked - so I signed up when the new session started this week for a jazz/ballet double header. It's awesome and I know it's good for me because I can feel my muscles getting better and I can eat ice cream again without feeling guilty *YAY!!!!!!!!!!* but I'm so exhausted by the end of ballet that I can barely keep the jumping going - partially because my muscles are tired but mostly because I can barely breathe and the breaks between my group and the other groups that go are not enough for me to catch my breath. So hopefully wogging will help the endurance factor.

So we'll see how this goes.

Exam update: constantly reading Chaucer. Have a meeting with David on April 10th and would like to have one with Kate soon. I need to email her. I got official exam dates - May 1st is the 5 hour major field written, May 2nd is the 2 hour minor field written, May 3rd (the day all bad things happen in Chaucer) is dead day, and May 4th is the 2 hour oral exam/answer defense. I'll be done at 11:00 on May 4th and know presumably within 15 minutes whether or not I've passed.

So that means I only have 1 month and two days before this all starts. ACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!