read between the runs

balancing grad school and life is difficult. (duh) i knew that starting grad school was going to be a time consuming process, and maybe it was a bit haughty of me to assume that i wouldn’t get so bogged down by it that i would lose access to the simple pleasures in life that i…

i love the eau claire marathon more than most things in life, even when it’s treated me poorly. in my eight years of running it, i have only had one (subjectively) good race. i was injured for a couple, did one virtual and completely couldn’t run for another, and slogged through some cramps in each…

tomorrow morning my students will take their staar test for my class, and i am at peace. i think that, overall, we used this year to the best of our ability and learned a wealth of information. now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that that information will be useful on the test, but i am happy…

i’m not scared of dying (not anymore, at least). and i don’t have much concern about being remembered past the duration of my life. it just isn’t that important to me. think of me akin to the sage hazel grace from The Fault in Our Stars. the lot that i hold in life is exactly…