One Week Left!

There are officially seven days of classes left.

This news doesn't really excite me as much as it might some others because I know that it means I have a ton of work to do in preparation for finals. Once that last final is done, however, I will be just as ecstatic as the everyone else. I finally got back some of my marathon pictures and I was not surprised to see that all of them after mile sixteen look like I am.....well....running a marathon.

With two weeks left of school I still have no idea what's going to happen this summer. I've come to terms with that but it doesn't mean I'm done trying to throw something together last minute. In the event that I don't manage to find a job (which is likely) I'm still going to hopefully have some adventures this summer. I'll still blog over the summer for those of you who are interested. For now I think I need to focus on Biology II and Analytical Chemistry.

Two weeks......

There are only two full weeks of school left until finals. Although most of the freshman I talk to say "It's gone by soooo quickly" I am of the opinion that time has taken its sweet time to go by. I'm definitely ready for the summer but not until I've put as much effort into my Biology II and Analytical Chem. finals as I should.



Last weekend I finally ran my marathon. I promise to put up a picture or two in my next post once they become available from the photographers at the race. It was a pretty brutal experience but an enjoyable one at the same time. I was fine until mile 23 when everything seemed to fall apart. My quads and calves started cramping and it felt like it was a hundred degrees outside. I had to finally walk at mile twenty five for a few minutes. Towards the end, however, I was able to feed off the crowd and shuffle jog my way to within a hundred meters of the finish. Once there I looked up to see that my time was 3:59:20. I had not just run 26.1 miles to see my finishing time in over 4 hours so I took off "sprinting" as best I could for the final hundred and finished in 3:59:50. It was not until later that night I realized that my actual time was 3:58:20 due to the lag of time between when the clock started and when I actually crossed the starting line. Either way I had beat my goal of 4 hours and it was an awesome experience. Thanks to Christiana Troupe, Kim Patterson, and my family for coming out to support me!



On a more somber note, I was not selected to work on the Hawksbill Sea Turtle Recovery Program in Hawaii this summer. That makes for my tenth job rejection already in this early year. Positions in California, Florida Keys, Isle Royal, Virgin Islands, and Hawaii among others have all officially rejected my applications, leaving me with one small hope to work in the Missouri State Parks this summer. So much for finding a fun Summer job (or even volunteer position) to help improve the enviornment instead of flipping burgers or gushing partially hydrogenated soybean oil onto people's popcorn. Oh well, there's always next year.

Easter Break

I've just returned to campus from a four day Easter break weekend. As I sit down to write this blog, I realize that I don't have much to write about--this is good.

It's good because next weekend will be a crazy, hectic, fun, draining one. I should hear about my status with the Hawksbill Sea Turtle project by next Monday, a day after I finally run the Saint Louis Marathon that I have been training so long for. There are also several tests, presentations, etc. due towards the end of this week and the beginning of the next, so I'm sure I'll look back on this boring Easter weekend with some envy when the time comes.

Baseball season officially began today!!!!! I'm a huge Cardinals fan and an even bigger baseball fan in general. Thankfully Rockhurst does not televise Cardinals games or else I would probably struggle to get my homework done. With Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, Albert Pujols, and Matt Holiday healthy, I expect great things from my team this year. Go Cards!