Work Week

I have long since given up my maxim “never start a book at night.”
There are just so many books to read! Both for class and for pleasure, late into the night we are glued to the pages of text. But that makes me feel great sometimes because it is an accomplishment to finish each little stretch of reading – it’s probably something I’ll never have to do again after my college years. Anyway…
This week, I embarked on the first week of my new job! I got a job in the mail room and it’s pretty good so far. I also got a second job at the library, which is ideal for me, being a book nerd as mentioned above. Now I can actually afford to eat meals! I can’t wait till I can finally pay my dad back something… but my goal right now is to just make sure that my expenses at the end of the month add up to the amount I make from these two jobs. We’ll see how it goes.
I have been starting to work out when I get stressed or unable to do schoolwork any longer. I literally skid out of my Decolonization class thinking “I need to go swimming.” At least it’s something that’s good for my body but, as I’ve been saying literally every time I get out of the pool, I feel like an old person. I just haven’t worked out in a long while and it’s taking some time for my body to adjust; not to the soreness, but just to the regular exercise. Hopefully that changes when I get massively toned abs and arms (ha, not). It’s another one of my gentle introduction things – so far it is paying off.
I sense that the weeks to come will be more interesting than the weeks that have passed; I have been carrying all these grand ideas in my head lately but haven’t been able yet to write them down, so I think my next gentle introduction will be into writing a little on the weekends so that it comes out (yay, fiction class!) as well as going to a lot of campus events again. It’s just been too cold to do anything else. There is no snow, even though they said there was going to be a lot but the wind has been bone-chilling so I have just been waiting it out in my dorm room, venturing out into the world only to eat, work, go to class, and exercise. Hmm, that should probably change.