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So I have been super busy with work, school, and the gym. I also have really been hit hard by a strange combination of allergies and a bit of a viral chest cold and my energy has been focused on just getting what I need done, done.

One thing I have been doing is meditating, including attending a workshop on it yesterday where I got to spend 3 hours one on one with the instructor just learning different techniques and talking about chakras and other fascinating aspects of eastern philosophies. I have found a great sense of peace with the meditation and it his really helped me clear my mind and to stop thinking tow much about things that are out of my control. Interesting as I find some clarity I have realized that perhaps I have been spending too much time trying to help others or fix them and that is actually something that does not have my needs met at all. Given that I have kind of limit my exposure to those who I would classify as too needy. The results have been interesting, as those people have actually wanted to interact with me more, as I interact with them less. A very interesting and unsurprising result and one that has not bothered me in the least as I focus on the I am instead of things on the peripheral.

I have short-timers right now as I will arrive in Portland Friday for 8 days of march madness, the public library association national conference, and catching up with friends I have not seen as much as I would like. Needless to say I am very pumped, even if I have to figure out how I am going to get all my school work done =p

I have been going to the gym 4-6 days a week. 3 days of weights including chest, arms, back, core, and shoulder work. On those days I do 30-45 minutes of cardio afterwords. I recently got back to benching over 300 again and am focusing on lighter weights with more repetitions. The other days of the week I go and do cardio only and go for 45 minutes. It is really starting to pay off and I feel great and the body is starting to tighten up a bit.

Well that is enough for now, I am still recovering from my night out last night and the couch is beckoning me to watch basketball or perhaps Boston Legal which I recently rediscovered.

So um yeah

SO um yeah

I have been way too busy lately to post a lot with work, school, the gym and taking care of some other things. This past weekend I had a couple of friends in town to help get the sammy back up and running

I have attached some photos of the weekend.

I am only 9 days until Portland and a long escape from Pullman!

Very excited

Update

I am at a bar doing homework (clearly) and I am drinking booze for the first time since roughly New Years and it is delicious (the two pbrs in Seattle a couple weekends ago totaly don't count). Since New Years I have lost 36.7 lbs and am feeling good. Life is good I am really looking forward to going to Portland in a couple weeks for a conference and some much needed escapism. I am looking forward to seeing friends and also people in the library field I have not seen in a long time. If people want to hang out let me know.

That is all for now I need to get back to bantering at the bar, a pastime I have truly missed of late =p