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Today, no pain! Woo hoo! I walked a ton today being the first day of classes and all. I then did weights and swam also. No leg pain at all. If I push deeply I can feel some soreness in my inner lower calf. But it is very light and I have to dig deep to find it. This is the first time since October I felt no pain at all the day after a run. Yippee!

I am SOOOOOO happy to be back to school. I don't think I could stand another month at work. It was a good summer at work and staff morale is high and all that. But after a year of classes I am beginning to realize I'm not cut out for 9-5 (or 10-6 in my case). That is yet another factor pushing me into academia after graduation.

The kids on campus bring great energy. And I had a blast talking with people I haven't seen in months and picking up right where we left off. 3 months of thinking and new ideas now have a testing ground. My favorite conversation of the day ended after 45 minutes of theory talk in my office with:

Him: I think I need some water.
Me: Yeah, we blew a lot of hot air in here today.
Him: A benefit of being a grad student is that you get to be pompous.

Big news: Tufts got a 30 million dollar endowment from the president of the New York Giants to build a new fitness center! The Tufts gym is atrocious and a source of shame for the school. It is worse than the high school facilities I had in Texas. The new one is gonna be awesome. The down side: They start construction in 2008 which means I may have a year at most to use it. Also, they are building it on the spot of the current facilities. So I have no idea where the current stuff will go. One thing is for sure, there will be no swimming as you can't move a pool! So any thoughts I had of postponing my marathon attempt for '09 are thrown out the window.

la_chispa and the_macnab: brand new squash courts are included!