BWE 12 & 13: Sweat and Irritation

Note: the “Best Week Ever” (BWE) posts are summaries of the prior week.

The past two weeks whizzed by. I don’t know what to say.

And yes, I was determined to use that blurry picture. The picture is of Porky’s in St. Paul. Porky’s is like a ghetto Sonic restaurant: grease and onions. I couldn’t get the taste out of my mouth for days and I wanted to bleach my mouth. It was worse than Culver’s and I am never going back. Oh, the horror…

I didn’t write a post last week because I had nothing charitable to say about school.

I knew there was a problem when I walked out of school so irritated that my jaw was clenched. Family law had just sucked 3 hours of my day and I was disgusted by some of my classmates.

Family law has 100 students. A handful of these students monopolize class time with inappropriate comments and not-so-relevant personal anecdotes. Walking around offended by the social ineptness of others is stupid and counter-productive, and I am no longer doing it. If I could deal with the freshmen of the University of Miami for three years as a resident assistant, then the douchebaggery of a few law students should not bother me.

Besides school, everything else was constant during the past two weeks: I am still bumbling around campus, roaming about Minneapolis, studying at coffee shops, cubicle-dwelling with my hilarious coworkers, and doing a lot of freelance graphic design work. Tis the season for design jobs apparently…

And then there’s Juddson, the boyfriend who is somehow not sick of me yet. He humors me even when I feel cranky and ridiculous, and he doesn’t even charge extra! This is Judd and Jabroni (his roommates’s dog):

Jabroni was over for a day while Judd dog-sat for his roommate. Gertrude felt threatened and refused to let me pet Jabroni. I feel loved, I think?

When she’s not blocking guest dogs, Gertrude spends her time begging for attention, finding drunk neighbors, and scaring puppies at softball practice:

I’m fine with Gertrude terrorizing puppies as long as it doesn’t involve another vet bill.

I also managed to revive my exercise schedule during the past two weeks. I bought K2 inline skates and started zipping around the lakes. The new exercise schedule culminated on Saturday with a 32-mile round-trip skate to work. The epic skate took close to 4-hours and my hindquarter felt kicked. This should become a weekly event.

This week I will increase the workouts and switch back to my hippie-diet (organic, non-processed foods, no gluten, soy, or lactose.) A full Operation Shrink a Gut update is coming soon. Where’s Brandon?