Student SPHere 2008-09

The feels-like-0-degrees temp and blustery day was, of course, the setting for my fourth race of the fall, the Reindeer Run 5K at Lake Harriet. Because of the cold, snow and lack of runner friends for this one, The Boyfriend enthusiastically (?) offered to walk/trot it with me (which we in the self-proclaimed CHE running club call "remixing it").

Notice my double-fleece look and his double-hat look -- it was COLD!

It took an hour or two to thaw out when we got home, then we headed to the Midtown Global Market -- one of my top-ten Minneapolis places -- for the No Coast Craft-o-Rama. Trust me, it's not your Grandma's craft show. And it's HUGE. There were more than 100 vendors selling trendy, creative stuff (it is City Pages' best craft fair, after all) . And about a gazillion people trying to buy it. It was so crowded it was hard to get to all of the booths, which didn't exactly facilitate a buying mood for me, but it was cool to check it out.

The worst part? The line to the Vietnamese restaurant with my favorite frozen bubble tea of all time was so long I had to pass -- and that means it was really, really long.

Later I ran some errands, which I soon realized was a big mistake with the holiday shopping Saturday madness out there. By the time I got home, I was so un-enthused about tackling my gift list that, I admit, I went a little Amazon.com crazy and did some Christmukkah shopping from my couch in my sweatpants. At least I had our newly dragged-out decorations and Christmas music to keep me in the spirit.

Yes, we have a stocking for The Dog. And he'll probably make out better than either of us.

Today I'm trying to get myself motivated to crack open the books and finish this semester off! I have a monstrous packet of biostats practice problems to work through for our review on Tuesday (final is next Thursday) and a whole bunch of epi that I have to make sure I understand (final this Saturday...yikes). Just a couple other little things to do that I'm not too worried about.

I might actually make it through the first semester relatively unstressed and in time to enjoy the holidays! Now only two more years to go...