jade's Blurty

Thursday.
Ugh. I feel bloated and gross. Life's been busy, but I've been working out, and that's been good. I mean, I say working out, but mostly I've been walking. My neck went out again on Monday, so I couldn't work out then, and while it was much improved on Tuesday I wanted to take it easy then and on Wednesday, so I just walked. Today I'm going to the gym though, and that's going to be awesome. I think tomorrow I may run, or maybe I'll do Iron Yoga. I swear, that's the best workout ever. You get the peace of mind and a great workout at the same time, which iis hard to beat.

We watched an Inconvenient Truth in class on Tuesday, and it just upset me. I don't really know what I can do about any of it. I use energy efficient lightbulbs. I walk to work. I recycle. I use environmentally friendly cleaning products. D and I share a car. I do alll that, but my carbon footprint is still larger than average. Hmph. I wish our government would roll out some initiatives to address these issues. I'm so type A with things like that it's ridiculous. Little Old Me...trying to save/control/fix the world.

We went out with our super boring government friends last night. *yawn* It was a total snooze fest. I don't even remember what we talked about. Maybe the LSAT? Seriously, we were talking about test taking strategies...."yeah...you should dress in layers...you know...so that if the room is cold, you won't be distracted...yeah...that's a good idea. Being cold is distracting....Yeah" Talk about titilating conversation. They are only interesting when they're drunk or when I'm drunk, and last night nobody was drunk. On the plus side, I looked so hot last night. Tonight, we're going out with lame couple number two....the chauvenist lawyer and his annoying wife. Their kids are probably the most interesting things about them. They constantly bitch about being poor, and it fucking kills me. They own a five story brownstone in Center Square; he makes six figures; they hired a Spanish speaking baby sitter to teach their tots Spanish; Jenn works one day a week and makes 25k a year for it, and they drive a fucking land rover....if I hear them talk about being broke one more time, I'm going to fucking choke them. She's totally self involved too. Get this, I emailed her from work to tell her about the reservations, and at the end of every email I send, it automatically includes my name, title, and contact information. So she emails me back and was all like..."Oh wow! You got a promotion! That's great!"...I've been an analyst since January, and I've been on my committee since May. We must have seen her two if not three times since then, and we've totally talked about it, but she obviously wasn't listening or just completely forgot. Ugh. So she asked me when it happened, and I didn't let her off.."...May" I said, and then ...silence..."ooooh..." Yeah good times! Tonight's conversation will probably center around politics and law school...just..like...yesterday's. *Bangs head into wall* And dinner tomorrow! Ugh! It is so not worth getting fat for all these lame people. This is probably the most compelling reason to move to Brooklyn: we would get away from all these boring government hacks, and we'd live near interesting people, and most importantly, we'd live near our friends! Real friends! Not weird fake political small talk friends. *gags*

And it's bitchy and totally not nice, but...gah it has to be said. They all have zero style. They're all just frumpy and blah and safe. They don't wear make up. Like last night, Cara was in this??? black tank top, this Little House on the Prarie khaki skirt, hideous shoes, and her hair was just scraped back in a ponytail, and she was wearing zero make up. No lip gloss,no mascara, nothing. There I said it. They're all just....oatmeal. (Does that make any sense?) Glad I got that out there.

And now, because everyone cares, I'll discuss what I ate! Woo hoo! *sigh* The good thing about Restaurant Week is that the portions are all very tiny, so that's good. I obviously had salad as an appetizer. The dinner choice was a process of elimination. Pasta is out because it's pasta...white carbs=death. Risotto is out because risotto is fattening....etc. I had the beef in red wine sauce. Low carb, high protein, fairly low in fat in comparison to the other dishes, and it's that time of the month, so iron seemed like a good idea. Very yummy. For dessert, I had the tiramisu, which seemed less fattening than cheesecake...and I am allergic to hazelnuts so the hazelnut gelatto was out. Thankfully, the dessert portions were miniscule. Seriously, it was like three bites in size, so that was great. Woo hoo!

And in other news, I decided not to go to work today, so I'm going to lounge around and hang out with my dog. Yay!

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