4-mile run and 2000-meter swim. Check, Check!

I know I would be lazy when I go back to CHina, so I have a plan to set some benchmark for the future.
Here is the truth: When you feel like you can do it, you can do it. I fearlessly embarked on the 4-mile campus loop, confident that I was going to run it. Sure I did, with around 30 minutes, and feeling great with the wind whooshing by my ear.
Earlier this afternoon, I also swam to relax my muscle in preparation of the run. With a combination of breaststroke and freestyle, I covered 2000 meters within around one hour.
I wrote these marks down just to encourage myself to keep exercising in the future. All goals can be achieved as far as they are being tought of. Maybe today it represents my peak physical abilities in my whole life, but I want to keep the spirit alive.
I won't brab to you about my physical exercising anymore, at least for a while. The topic has got old, and I guess my words are less telling than my actions. So keep it on, Songhua (and you, readers!), because you CAN!

Runner's high!

When you reach a runner's high, you can tell. I am in one today. Here are the recipes:
1. Keep running in the past several days before 6pm under the sun.
2. Drink a cup of coffee latte (equavelant to illegal drugs for athletes, in my opinion) around 2pm.
3. start running at 6:30pm (around sunset when the whether is cooler)
4. Run with normal speed 6000m.

I plan to run the whole campus loop before I head for China on Wednesday. It is about 7000 meters, and I think it is under my reach now.

My computer got a freaking spyware the other day, and I couldn't get rid of it no matter what. So I reinstalled everything and super-organized my computer. Now it is done, and I love my computer!

I am bored. Right now.

Ok, I am bored right now, so I will just spend some time on this blog thing again.
Strange. After I move out Victor's house, I no longer have any interest in Red Alert. It is true, otherwise I will be playing it rather than typing this meaningless blog.:-)
I went to an ASA conference today. It was boring, because most Chinese sociology students have no ideas of what they are doing. Girls have kiss-up questions, and boys have stupid confidence with their crappy papers. Maybe the above sentence is exagguration, but I am confident I am in a better shape than most of them.
I then gave Victor and Tahu a ride. And then Rachel and Victor treated me with a home-made dinner. You know, it is nice to have a family. You are no longer lonely, no longer wondering what you should do with the time before the midnight. Sometimes if there are kids around, you can put meanings to even the stupidest things, because you are entertaining the kids.

Working hard

Did I mention to you all that I am TAing for ALC (American language & culture) again this year?Basically, it is a bunch of rich college kids from Taiwan and Japan. They have the privilege that I could never dream when I was in their age. I sorta of resentful for that, but not really. I think I am just lucky all the way to reach my current position. In one boy, Andy, I see myself. He is sensitive and nervous most of the time. He is cautious to ask questions with a lowest male voice in the whole world. He is nerdy, in a sense that he want to absort everything we said without even slight questioning. He is obviously bullied in school. Thinking back, I was too, in a minor version. So I hope he good luck.
There are a bunch of beautiful girls in the group. They make me wonder whether they will become the future movie stars of Taiwan. To be honest, some of them have a better looking than current stars, plus they are highly edcuation. And now they even know American landguage and culture. You see, what a contribution I have made:-)
Today flies fast. I do not know what I have accomplished today, but it surely is a busy day. It is 10:50pm, and I am happy I have a happy day (sounds tautalogical, but it IS the perfect way to describe how I feel right now).
See Ya.

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TOO LAZY!!!!
I finally moved out of Victor's house. Reason? His wife and kid were returning! Alright, my golden time is gone for ever, but is it for good? I guess it is, since I have wasted a lot of time playing video games and could afford more wasting. But on the flip side, it is a lot of fun staying there. The best part is that we still have some sense of detachment, so when I finally moved out two ways ago, I was not depressed for a golden age gone for ever, but elated of a new stage that I move onto.
MMmmm, what else? Ok, I hope you do not know the place I am currectly staying. I am illegally stay in an on-campus apartment since some of my friend's roommate has moved out and the extra bedroom cannot be locked. When I arrived, the living room and kitchen were so dirty that I had to clean them to get rid of the stinky smell. And no paper towels to clean them. So I biked around the campus looking for public bathrooms where I could steal a paper towel or two. Damn, it was so stinky that I had to hold my breath while cleaning the kitchen counter. Not to mention all the junky mail and plastic bags my friend had accumulated over ONE year!
I got a lazy boy chair yesterday. It is very comfortable, so I guess I will do more readings at home from now on.
I picked up running again after 1-week lapse. I have run in the past three days and will keep up with it.

Too lazy in the past week

Hi, I am a little bit too lazy in the last week, but I guess that will be about the frequency of my future blog.
Michele is leaving out department. I sent her a gift on Friday. i do not think she is happy in the job. She has the lowest status in our department. Sometimes she did some thredding upon Suzi's order. I hope she will have a much better job in Half Moon Bay.
I also met my former office mate, Jen, about 3 hours ago. She is taking on a job in Washington D.C., working for World Bank. She is not the smartest person in the world, but always sincere and nice. She told me she would opt to leave the USA if Bush is elected again as president. I hate Bush too, but I guess the more responsible thing is to stay and try to make a difference. At least you can cast the vote.
A good movie to recommend: Collateral. Tom Cruise is such a great actor, who makes a generic professional killer interesting. I am convinced he deserves every single movie award he's got.
I find out people are log in working hours when they do not really show up in the gym. So you know what? I did the same. Just to level the playground. I log in 3 more hours that I leave early on Thursday. I guess nobody really cares.

The village and the bush-man

I watched a new movie last Sunday,"the village". It is one of the better movies I've watched this year, but not as good as "the sixth sense" though both movies tried to pull a final surprise. We then went to the pier 39 of SF, where there is a famous "bush-man" on the street who hid behind two branches of bush and jumped out to scare people. He made a living by doing that because sometimes people will give tips for his effort. He is prety cool, though he did not scare me. But thanks for the effort, bush-man!