helpful life hint #1 (in case i've never dispensed any heretodate): do not lift weights the day before you volunteer for physical labor. it's a bad, bad combination.
on friday, i went and repeated my weightlifting workout to strengthen my body for running (isn't that an odd concept? that you have to exercise your body for a certain type of exercise. running is lethal :p). i did lunges, wallsits, hamstring ball exercises, lower back lifts, and upper back pulldowns and flies. and then yesterday, i spent 4 hours weeding the backyards of two elderly persons' backyards. our peers found a dead cat in the second yard. how fun. in any case, gardening is tough stuff. hoeing, the pulling, the carrying. it's a definite workout!
and then we went to see eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. i cannot say enough about how much i enjoyed that movie. and i also cried in it, as lame as i am. it made me wonder... if i had the opportunity to erase someone from my mind, would i?