It's been a couple weeks. Sometimes when I'm walking I think about things I could share on my blog and then I get time to actually write and I can't seem to remember what I did yesterday, let alone last week.
Actually, I do remember what I did yesterday. Ryan (one of the Ryan's in my cohort) hosted a beer tasting party! Over half of our cohort made it out which is a pretty darn good percentage of attendance. It was a really enjoyable night. Lots of good conversation, games and laughs, and I got to try some beer that I probably never would have otherwise. Now, I'm not a huge beer fan to begin with, but it was still fun to try them. I was very happy about one in particular beer, not because of the taste---it was from Southern Tier Brewing Company! Lakewood, New York!!!! Pumking! So I was pretty excited about that!
Last weekend I went to a Future Islands concert on Saturday. I wasn't super familiar with their music, but one of my cohort-members was. Their music is pretty good, but the BEST part is the lead singer! He's craaaaazy! Search Future Islands on youtube and watch him. He dances the whole time, but it's not fluid dancing, it's these wild, bold moves. Sometimes he kicks his leg up to his nose--way higher than I could ever get! I kept worrying that he was going to fall or get his feet tangled in the cords, but he never did. Sunday I went swimming!!!!!! Can you believe it--swimming in September?! I went to Lake Nakomis to this really tiny beach with a couple other grad students. It was awesome! I had almost forgotten how much I love swimming--such freedom! I'm glad I got to see one of the famous lakes too, since it will probably be a long time until it's warm again. Actually the last couple weeks have been great weather! It's pretty chilly out this morning. 40 something, but sunny. I'll have to go for a walk later.
School has been going pretty well. This week was the first really busy one and I don't think it's going to get any less busy from now on. I made a "have to do" list and a "need to do eventually" list this week and I didn't get to any of the "need to do eventually"s. That's a problem. But it's all about making adjustments and so far, everything will get done (I hope).
Even though I know this month is going to be really busy, I did decide to start lindy hop lessons. My first lesson was Wed last week and it went really well. It was a lot of review in the beginning, but I think we will do some new stuff next week. The instructors are funny (swing instructors usually are for some reason) and I got to meet like 20 new people! It works out nicely that it's on Wednesdays because I can go straight to Lee's right after.
Enough "relaxing." Time to get back to work....after I take my walk :)
