I wear my sunglasses at night.

I couldn't sleep. well, I'm sure that if I tried hard enough, I could have. I just thought getting up at 6 seemed like a great way to start my Sunday. I'll be up this early again Monday (tomorrow) and Wednesday to get my spin teaching on. Plus my brain was definitely ready to get up. Seemed strange to waste that with sleep.

I did probably one of the best runs of my life yesterday outside in the cold. It was high 30s, I was wearing a long sleeve tech tee with my tie dye Alaska Grown tee shirt on top (thanks Mom and Dad), and a pair of tight compression short short. Okay, not Cheerleader or Volleyball player short, but short in Liz world. And you know what? I rocked those 10+ miles. Finishing faster towards the end than in the beginning. My pace was steady and my form smooth as I spend close to two hours admiring the leaves and their gradients of color through the Arboretum. It was a very very great way to spend the day.

There really was no way to top that, so I came back inside, made Mahi Mahi and top Ramen for dinner (I know, its really weird but I ate them separately, not together). Ate some amazing wheat bread, and later on dowered some eggs and tomatoes and another piece of that wheat bread (do you sense a carb and protein theme). My mother should be ashamed that my dinner last night consisted of no vegetables. NONE! Because, technically tomato is a fruit. Also, I boiled up some quinoa in the hopes of making Fried Quinoa (like fried rice but with no rice) for dinner today. Maybe throw in some frozen fish, veggies and some fruit and I should be good. Let me just say that there is little I wouldn't do for a fresh king salmon grilled in my parents back yard right about now. NOTHING.

On cheerier news, I'm a little behind in lab and need to really start pushing to get some of my project stuff done. My bacterium Desulfuromonas hasn't been growing without a special reducing agent in the culture tubes that will potentially mess up my results in the future. Its super super frustrating, and I need to solve this problem. I also need to spend an hour or three making media, which hopefully I can get done today.

As far as classes go, crystal chem is finally starting to make sense and all come together, which is amazing. Now I just need to go write a story for science journalism...