Day 3 - "Beast Mode"

Beginning the life of a student teacher is becoming more and more of a reality as each day passes. Unfortunately, before I can be completely free to focus on those responsibilities solely, I've got a couple big papers to write. Blast going to a liberal arts school with a writing requirement for graduation...and blast being a student who pushes her assignments to the last possible minute. With that said, this week before getting back to campus will be spent crafting my next to last "Communicating Across the Curriculum Program" paper...ugh.

As if the stress of beginning this new chapter of my life on top of being a grade A procrastinator wasn't enough, I'm absolutely hating the way I'm physically feeling; I boiled it down to simply feeling gross. Those holiday goodies are wonderful in the moment, but they sure don't play nice after it's all said and done.

Joey went on a run this evening, and I decided to join him. As you can see in the picture, I was less than prepared for a run in 30-something degree weather. There's only so much warmth a pair of running shorts over some dress tights can provide. But that's what I get for leaving my uber warm sweat pants in my closet at school. Nonetheless, I survived; it was so much fun. After the picture, I showed it to Joey and you know what he said? "Beast mode".

Now, I know that was his ego speaking about himself and how 'bad' or tough he looked, but in retrospect that's me right now. I'm in 'beast mode'. I've got to be productive. I've got to do work. I've got to make progress--and I'm game.

I'm kicking it into super beast mode.