Hey, hey!

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done a WIAW post, and it’s been even longer since I did a Day in the Life post.  For selfish reasons, I like to look back on the day in the life posts and see what life was like a few months ago, or even a year ago.  Things really change over time!  I thought it might be fun to incorporate WIAW into a day into my life.

This post will follow last Monday.  For context, Monday and Tuesday are my longest days, which go from 8 am-5 pm with an hour break for lunch.  On one of those two days I will get up early to do some easy cardio.  Sometimes, I work the desk in the building for two hours and then stay up until midnight to go on rounds at 10 and 12.  That was not the case for this past Monday.

6:05 am:  My alarm goes off and I contemplate jumping out my window.  [Not kidding- I have very morbid thoughts first thing in the morning when my alarm goes off- see below haha].  I hit snooze.

6:23 am:  My alarm goes off again, but this time there is a text from Russ that gets me up and at ’em.

6:30 am:  I am doing moderately high interval training on the bike while watching Scrubs.  I am making my way through every season.

7:00 am:  Shower, dress, make oatmeal, pack bag, out the door by 7:40 am.

8:00 am:  Medical Nutrition Therapy.  We learn about renal disease and I do my best to stay awake (and succeed).  I take notes and the time passes quickly.  Renal disease sounds miserable.

10:00 am:  MNT is over.  I go to the bathroom and then buy a couple snacks because I forgot to pack them.  I buy an orange and a cheese stick and eat the orange now and save the cheese stick for my next class.  I am wishing I bought more food because I am hungry.  I sit in community nutrition and we talk about the School Lunch Program.

11:00 am:  I walk back to north campus to attend bio, the class I tutor.  While walking the mile back to campus, I talk to dad on the phone.  We talk about tattoos and my idea for having a tattoo party for my graduation.  It’s a joke.  I arrive at bio…eventually.  This is my third time taking the course (once for a grade, twice to tutor) so I go in and out of listening and calm my stomach down.  I eat my cheese stick.  It was salty.

12:00 pm:  LUNCH!  I eat TJs Creamy Tomato Soup, a slice of bread with peanut butter, and a salad with spinach, kale, and pulverized carrot from juice I made the day before.  I eat while answering e-mails and working on a blog post.

1:00 pm:  Tutor bio.  I haven’t looked over this information since last semester so I try to look confident.  I think I succeed.

2:00 pm:  I get an unexpected hour break.  In the weeks leading up to this, this hour was filled with Level II tutor training.  Apparently, it’s over (I’m level II certified-yay!), so I use the time to write 4, yes 4, blog posts and eat a protein bar.  It hurts my stomach, but I’m really hungry.

3:00 pm:  Tutor more bio.

4:00 pm:  Tutor my last hour of the day.  Thank goodness, because I’m losing steam…and of course I’m hungry.  I’m always hungry, have you noticed?

5:00 pm:  Dinner!  Dinner is great because I go to the dining hall and there are so many choices.  Tonight I have:Spinach, mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrot, cheese, sunflower seeds, raspberry vinaigrette.  And…I have been trying to eat more protein, so this is it: tofu, eggs, beans, barley, cottage cheese (and peach slices yum!)

And dessert, of course:Banana pudding.  I still love pudding.

6:00-8:00 pm:  Change into comfy clothes and then have more dessert and then start on my nightly tasks.  Tonight this includes studying for my food systems management exam for the next day, calling a summer program I am looking in to doing, and submitting an assignment.These are ah-mazing.

8:00 pm:  I can’t concentrate anymore.  Until about 8:30, I pretend to study more and then I decide to call it quits.  So I eat a snack.1/2 c plain yogurt, 1/2 banana, some raisins, some cereal, some cinnamon-sugar almonds.

9:00 pm:  Watch some TV.  There isn’t anything exciting on so I turn it off.

9:15 pm:  Read.

10:00 pm:  Crawl into bed and call Russ.  I tell him about my day and he does the same.

10:25 pm:  Sleeping.

And then I do it all over again!  But I don’t workout on Tuesday’s and I have chemistry lab.