I think there is no denying it now. Winter is on its way. Boohoo. I am completely a warm weather person so the chilly temps leave me wanting to stay bundled up in my warm bed and skip class. I don’t skip class, of course, but it IS tempting!
Onto better news. I have been back into running for over a month now! Wow it has been great. I have even done a 6k xc race on a whim at my school’s last home race, and it went pretty well for only having a couple of meager speed workouts. Now it is all about getting the base back for track. I have been having very nice distance runs and feeling great, plus a few speed workouts have been surprisingly good, but I still have a long way to go. I have a feeling my ferritin is a little low again, so I might start feeling better in a while if I get put on pills. But at any rate, I enjoy getting in good miles and actually being able to participate in practice again. Nothing better 
Running the 6K race! 24:18, not too shabby considering the 7 weeks off for the hip
O-chem is going rather well, on the academic side of things. A 96% and a 94.5% on my first two exams = me extremely happy! The recent 10 point “goggle deduction” from lab made me pretty angry, but whatever. I’m just hoping to survive the class and move on. I will be so freaking happy to get this semester over with! Only 2 weeks and 2 days until Thanksgiving break! I’m getting very homesick!
Today I am going to attempt to bathe Stewart. But what I really need is to give him some breath mints. It’s completely grossing me out that he is eating what is coming out of his rear end. EWWWW!
