Today is turning around. It started as a stressful day, but it's slowly getting better.

I found a friend who will use the extra Cirque du Soleil ticket. A weekly study at Stanford hospital in which I participate was cancelled, so I will have a little extra time to drive up to San Francisco for the Toad the Wet Sprocket concert.

I did a lot of driving last night. It was good for my psyche. My roommate's car was towed from his fiance's apartment complex, so around 10:30pm I drove him down to the towing company and waited for him to get his car back. After that, I drove up to Stanford and did a 2 hour workout. I have been striving to get back in shape, and the workout habit is starting to stick. I'm also 75% sure that I am going to do a triathlon through Team in Training. Raising $2800 seems like a pretty big challenge, but several people I know who have participated in TNT say it's not as hard as you would think.

I had a moment of pause last night when I was driving home from my workout. I drove past Junipero -- my freshman dorm at Stanford -- and paused for a moment in the parking lot to visually scan the building and find the window that was mine during freshman year. I parked. And thought. Coincidentally, matchbox twenty's "Unwell" was on the radio at the moment. It seemed appropriate:

But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be

Yeah, how I used to be
How I used to be
Well, I'm just a little unwell
How I used to be
How I used to be
I'm just a little unwell

Hmmmmm. Here's this week's Moment of Stupidity:

Talk with friends for the 1000th time about going to Cirque du Soleil. Decide to take action and organize a group to go. Ask lots of friends if they can go. Have difficulting finding a day when everyone can go. Finally, this morning, we find a night that everyone can go - tomorrow night. I buy the tickets. Two hours pass. A friend emails me and reminds me that we're going to a concert on that night.

Whoops.

Ugh. What a crazy day! I prepared three MPH applications for mailing, and I was -- get this -- hypnotized for a documentary by the BBC! Very exciting.

While I'm at it, I should be a good liberal and promote my early pick for 2004 -- John Kerry.

There is no good way to introduce this animation. Have you ever wondered what a Kikkoman Soy Sauce Superhero would be like? If so, check it out. And turn on your speakers; the soundtrack is incredible.

I woke up today and took the GRE. Did pretty well. Hopefully it will help me get into a masters program in public health!

Had my second cooking class tonight. This one was on Sauces. Yummmmm.

And President Bush is currently experiencing his lowest public opinion ratings in 16 months. Yay! In an odd, yet surprigingly familiar way, Bush also declared January to be "National Sanctity of Human Life Day." Thoughts, anyone?

God Bless America. And the two DJs in Miami who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and convinced him they were Fidel Castro. I have an odd respect for anyone who risks their job by making prank calls to heads of state.

Let's see...what's new?

Happy New Year!

New Year's Resolutions:
1. Stop biting my fingernails (7th year in a row that this has been on the list).
2. Do a better job of staying in touch with friends.
3. Get to work earlier.
4. Continue/reinforce my *new* habit of being on time.
5. Get into grad school. (Ha! As if a resolution like this will suddenly change my luck!)
5a. Do well on the GRE.
6. Cook. A lot. Get good at it. (I signed up for a 12-class series of cooking classes yesterday!)