We had a cool speaker at our research meeting this morning. He was from Pretoria, South Africa and talked mostly about wildlife conservation in Africa and all the troubles associated. He has a program similar to Cobus'. I almost did Cobus' in vet school but it was too expensive and had to back out.

It kept snowing all day and still is. Made it to my massage w/ my bum leg. Perfect for my half marathon on Sunday. Massage wasn't the best I've ever had but still good. I wish I could get them for free instead of the $86.25 I paid which was 20% off the usual price because my tri team gets a discount. It does pay to date a massage therapist if only I could find one I could stand for long enough.

Snowed so much Jen didn't make it down from Maine tonight. She's going to leave really early in the morning, like 4am, to make it to Tufts for the conference that she's going to. So I had no plans. Left work a little early and was going to relax. I feel sick and thought I should rest up but Jos texted she could meet at BHP for a beer. I said okay, 1 beer! I have to say we were pretty good though and only had 2 and plenty of interaction for the short time we were there. First 1 minute I walked in the old guy w/ the mustache that is always in there starts being inappropriate with me. I went along w/ it for a bit, he said if my freckles grew together I'd be a negro, asked for a hug and wanted to kiss my cheek but then said turn around, he wanted my buttcheek, asked me to raise my arms to fondle me, asked if he could tell me what he wanted to do to me and then said he'd be a good catholic boy and not get a hard-on...finally this girl Nora got me away from him. Just met her, she seemed pretty drunk, there alone, said she only had 3 beers but the bartender refused to serve her anymore so she left for Harvard Gardens though before that she got my contact info because she does realty stuff and thought she could find me an apt. We'll see how that goes. Then 'my boyfriend' from the other night, the one that went to U of Maine and played rugby, etc. came in and was all on me and he had this huge list of addresses where he was supposed to go and shovel to make a shitload of money and he asked if any of them were where I lived and said if we were still there later he'd be back to buy us drinks. He said he told people about us, me and him, and that I should get w/ Varsity, meaning him. His 'friends' were also there, the ones he had me talk to last time, so before Jos and I left we went over to talk to them for a little bit. They were fun. Then we were good and got out of there. Took the t to Davis to get Chipotle for dinner. Baby Greg, thought of you when we were eating our burritos, how you'd make love to them. Left to get home but I really wanted to stop off at the BHP or even Harvard Gardens to see if Nora was there. I felt bad for her!

Now I'm home writing this. Plan on going to hip hop class tomorrow morning w/ Jos. I hope they don't cancel it because of the snow; that'll suck.

Now it's 10:34pm and I'm bored :0(
Let's go out!!

Now it's 3:45am and I wish I could sleep better. I keep waking up like every hour or so. I just had to take Cleo out. Her gut sounds were keeping me up this last time so we went outside. I'm feeling sicker, probably should have went outside w/ more than my pjs, no socks and slippery shoes. There is sooo much snow out there!! and of course she didn't want to be out there but finally she pooped and though I almost fell, I didn't. Now I will try to get back to sleep. I don't want to be tired for hip hop.

I made it up for hip hop. Got there in plenty of time to meet Jos but she was running late and ended up just going straight to the dance studio but I didn't know that so was waiting for her in Central and then didn't know she was already in the class. So I ended up later than her but at least we made it. It was lots of fun! Just silly that we spend an hour learning one minute of choreography, and learn it badly at that. Class was so much fun I stayed for a second. Jos had to go. The second class was harder but I could keep up, kinda. I was soaked by the end and now I'm sore. Works lots of different muscles than running. My legs are sore in weird places and my abs too.

Had some time to waste while I waited for Jen to get done w/ her conference. She came and picked me up and we headed to IKEA. I got too much, spent almost $300 on stuff I probably didn't need, well except for the dresser which they didn't have the one I wanted so I had to get a similar one. That always happens there! Got a neck pillow for my plane ride to Australia, wink wink. Got another boy's number while I waited for Jen to get our cinnamon rolls. Not sure the intention but he seemed nice enough and was like most people I meet lately, trying to help me find an apt. He was a cute boy w/ a cool afro and goatee that said he went to MIT for undergrad and his business card says he's senior engineer/project manager. He looks very young to be anything senior. It's funny how people treat you differently when you're not the mean, bitchy girl w/ the dirty look always on your face that wants to avoid people at all costs. I guess that's still me, I'm just trying to be more open once in awhile. Didn't get out of IKEA until late and then had to park illegally to get my stuff into my apt. which sucked w/ all the snow. The dresser, though in pieces in a box, is 80 lbs. so it wasn't the easiest to get in my apt. Then Cleo started howling when she heard us on the stairs so we started laughing which made me drop the dresser box, oops. Eventually we got it in but I hope I didn't break any of the million parts. Found Jen a parking spot on the street, lucky us, and had some dinner at the Hill Tavern. It was okay. Only went there once before on a date and it was just okay then too. Now we're home and Jen is asleep I think. I hope the dogs making noise sometimes doesn't bother her too much. I know Billy will bark when the roomies come home which might get Cleo howling too. Jen was very tired since she got up at 4 this morning and I have my race in the morning so I should get some sleep too. Hope my hip hop classes didn't ruin me for the 13.1 miles I have to do tomorrow. Can't wait for the hot tub after. Thanks for hooking us up Jake!

And boy did Jake hook us up!! It was amazing, our whole race day experience. I think I'll put it in a separate post.