August 11

This afternoon’s car line experience was still soul crushing, but it was soul crushing for less time than yesterday. I think tomorrow I will try to arrive later and take the long way home. Even though it adds five miles to the drive, I think it will be faster. It’s bad enough sitting in one car line. Sitting in two at once is just bananas. I tried a new recipe for dinner and it was pretty good. Nice salmon with an herbed caper sauce and red beans and rice. I was disappointed with my class’s performance this last week and decided today to pivot. We’ll see if that helps. I did not succeed at this morning’s run. It felt like I was running while wearing a hot, steaming wet blanket over my shoulders the whole time. It was a speed run and it was a challenging speed run and honestly I didn’t even feel like running in the first place, so it was just destined for disaster. It wasn’t really disastrous, but it wasn’t fun, either. Still, it’s done! I got out there and I did something and it counts. I pulled 15 pounds of fur off of Jackson today, and that was just on his left shoulder. I think he hates me now.