Temporarily out of chocolate

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I'm not really out of chocolate, I'm just too lazy to go into the cellar and get some. I still have a mandarine orange, yum. I've eaten a lot of mandarines recently; maybe if I start earlier next year I can escape the almost-traditional October illness

This evening some of friends are watching "The Hobbit" in English. I can't quite believe that I'm sitting at home and trying to work. Or maybe I can, because I'm so tired it feels like my face is melting. (I had coffee, it's becoming a bit better.) I hate lack of sleep, and it's almost entirely my own fault. I overslept today, then had a French class that was annoying as usual (why can't she ever stick to the lesson plan? No, it's not "fun" to randomly insert more advanced material and expect us to learn it! Why does French have so many stupid syntax rules?) and then tried to speak Russian while forgetting the easiest words.

Strangely I'm almost feeling optimistic about my ability to get stuff done tonight. Wish me luck.

I registered for the Vienna City Relay Marathon in April! A complicated process - no, A., you do not get to call others "unreliable" when you failed to register our team after I reminded you five times and you dodged my calls until I did it myself.
I'm looking forward to it. I'm planning to run the 11km because that's the one with the big finish and my father persuaded me. I started running (again) three weeks ago and I'm quite comfortable with the small 3km round, and I still have enough time until April. Fortunately there are nice places to run near our house.
in_stead linked me to Zombies, Run!, a running training app where you escape from zombies, which is a great idea, and today M. and I discussed the Doctor Who running app that should exist.
I didn't talk about running because I was afraid to jinx my plans (twice a week), but since I did that this week anyway it's too late.

I still don't have any Christmas presents for anyone (because I was so stupid to leave something I bought for my brother openly lying around in my room *facepalm*), but I still have a few days, right?
Back to work.

Comments

[in_stead]

Well done on starting to run again! I am not at all a good runner - only 3 weeks into one of those couch to 5k programs after never having run before in my life, but I'm excited to have someone in my flist to talk to about it! :)

(Using my cycling icon because I don't have a running one. Cycling is far and away my first love, but not possible to do with a new baby, so I run with a stroller instead.)

(This all makes me found fit when I'm not. But I aspire to be!)

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Good luck with getting better at running, and more importantly, I hope you enjoy it! I find it very hard to motivate myself if I'm not signed up for something that I have to train for - in the past I signed up for something, ran regularly for a few weeks at most, and that was it until the next year. And even then it's difficult when the weather's not right, but I try to remember that I usually feel great after I'm done.
Running with baby is an added difficulty level :)

[frith_in_thorns]

I really really really hate runnning. I am built all wrong for it. But I kind of want to just to play the zombie thing :P

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Maybe you could cheat and use a bike instead? *g*