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The outreach thing was great! Or at least I thought so and the museum ladies seemed pleased. I’m not particularly confident about anything, but I’m glad I got to take books and talk about books and just be a book lady for a few hours. I talked to a ton of families and I’m so grateful that I got to do it. I’m mad that I forgot to put on makeup beforehand especially when one of the main organizers asked me to do a quick video of what I was talking about at my table which she then, of course, posted to facebook, etc. with the library tagged as well. Ugh, I’m not sure I was even supposed to do something like that. I mean, there are different levels of rep, and being on social media is not one that I’m really “officially approved” to do--there’s like a whole team that runs the social media stuff. I guess, better to ask forgiveness. At least I hope so. Oh God, I hope I never actually have to see or hear that video of me. I cannotttttttt.

I’ve been trying to write all not but the motivation, has not been there and now I’m torn between staying up EVEN LATER to write and going to bed at a semi-reasonable hour. Not that I’m very good at that whole going to bed game anyway, but I did kind of want to get decent sleep tonight. Granted I don’t have to be up until like noon or so and if I go to the gym after the movie like I was planning on, I should be worn out enough to sleep tomorrow night for a decent Monday. Still, I’d rather not be up until 4 am.

Every muscle in my body… Well, nearly every muscle in my body is sore today. I wonder if it will be worse tomorrow. I hope not. I am going to try to make it worse tomorrow. Sort of. I mean, I am trying to gain strength or whatever. Yeah, cardio is great for a lot of things, but if I want to boost my metabolic rate (... or whatever), which I do, I need to build some muscle mass.

Also, not that I can jog all that far or all that fast, but I did my miles shorter than I have probably since I was in college and I am not kidding. I still have access to a lot of my run times from when I was jogging regularly and I won’t say that I never did a faster mile, but all my averages were 16 - 17 minute miles. Eventually I got to where I was able to do one in about 15 and a half minutes when I really pushed and it was a good day. But today I did a mile in under 15 minutes! I don’t know if I was able to do that even when I was in K-12. I always struggled with the physical fitness stuff.

I could be wrong, but I think that the little bit of strength training I did helped me. I don’t know. Maybe I was just feeling it today. It was a good day for it--relatively cool and not terribly sticky. Warm as hell for winter even in the south, but pleasant to be running around in. I was wearing a tank top and shorts.

I’ve decided I’m going to head towards bed. I’ve got stuff I want to do tomorrow and I don’t want to sleep THE WHOLE day away.