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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

A Day in the Life of Jess

Taking a cue from Marcy, Lisa, and David, I decided to document my day in some pics. So, first up: Me getting ready this morning -- the mirror shot is an homage to Marcy. In the car on the way to work -- got the coffee in one hand, camera in the other. Who needs to steer?
My office at school. Yeah, pretty plain. But I have a reason for that. See, our building is slated to be re-modeled at the beginning of 2008 and we're going to have to move to another building temporarily, so I figure: Why decorate when I'll just need to move all my stuff? I figure, once the building is done, and we're back in our new offices (which are supposed to be double the size) then I'll decorate. For now, it's pretty blah. But, I have a window!
One of the classrooms I teach in. This classroom is in one of the older buildings, so it's pretty low-tech. But it's where the magic takes place: This is where I dazzle my students!
At the end of the day, I went for a run. A storm is blowing in, so it was a bit windy, but that also means that it was cooler out.
I put in a 6 solid miles, and the splits were as follows:

Mile 1: 9:55
Mile 2: 9:56
Mile 3: 10:05
Mile 4: 10:06
Mile 5: 10:14
Mile 6: 10:00

Total Time: 1:00:20 -- 16 seconds slower than my Monday 6er. I blame the breeze.

Now, my belly is full of delicious chicken parmesean, and I am prepared to spend the rest of the evening chillin'. There's the start of a new season of "Project Runway" and I can't wait for the fashion drama!

Hope everyone had a stupendous day!

28 comments:

Jes said...

Love the pictures. Your hair looks really cute!

ws said...

I think your office looks pretty full and neat. Good thing you dropped your plan to come and clean here!

nice run - I can't believe you are already done with dinner...seems so early.

Marcy said...

WHOOO HOOOOOO!!! Thanks for making look semi sane with the bathroom shot LOL

You look so freekin cute for work! And Lisa TOTALLY needs to take cue with the coffee mug (see Lisa, that's the type you need :P)

Awesome job on the run!! ;D ;D

teacherwoman said...

Very nice! You are very lucky to have a window... I don't! I don't have an office either... or a classroom of my own... :)

Nancy said...

You look great. Did you say, I'm having a good hair day, let's do pictures...

I'm totally jealous of the mileage, great work. I barely got 3 in, thought I was going to die!!

Tri+Umph said...

Usually when it was cooler out (back when I used to run, you know) I would wear a few pairs of sweatpants, gloves, hat, underarmour, wind breaker, a running jacket, and at least two pairs of socks. As opposed to your tank top and visor.

I really need to move to Florida some day. Although I hear it can get a little 'breezy' during hurricane season.

My 'word verification' is 'lvrmcj' (Lover Mc J? I don't know, it just seems weird!) I thought I would share that with you, although once a professor of mine got "pigfkr" during class...

Paul said...

Nice coverage of the day. And you are smiling in every pic!

Mary Gee said...

You are so dang cute!

Erin said...

It's a treat to see you dressed up since we usually are in our walking clothes or drinking clothes. You are lookin' good!

The office picture deserves two comments from me-one, jealous you have a window and real walls/door but I have a phone that isn't circa 1900. I am surprised it had touchtone rather than rotary dialing :) I should take a shot of my faux office someday. Heck, I should learn how to post pictures to liven mine up.

Mendy said...

You're freakin' adorable Jess! Love the "Jess day". It was awesome!

Love the digits on that run! You motivate me to get back to where I was (which is what you're running 6at). Thanks for that! It helps.

Hair looks great!!

P.O.M. said...

Dude. I totally have that white shirt in your first pick.

MNFirefly said...

I love it, Jess!

lifestudent said...

My classroom and office dont look much different. In fact, my office looks much worse considering I work in a concrete building with teeny-tiny windows.

Viv said...

Love the pics, supah cute!

I stop by here daily for a couple weeks now and thought I would speak up since I did ur random thoughts on my post today.

Great splits!

David said...

Awesome pictorial! I had kind of wondered what the class rooms look like there. I guess that's pretty close, but a bit more "Summer School" (with Mark Harmon) than I imagined.

I'm jealous of the window. I just took another lamp into the office because I am in a cave.

Oh, and great, solid run! There are so many factors that could play into that small time difference, but blaming the wind sounds good to me. Some times if I get all ticked off at a close passing car, I start to imagine some form of retribution, and my pace slows down. When I notice, I pick it back up. Then there's the bio things...

Laurel said...

Woo-hoo PROJECT RUNWAY!!!

I love the pics! And you look so adorable when you run! Nice splits too.

Anonymous said...

first I love your 5 from last post. And this post also way fun. Nice job on the run.

Triseverance said...

Hey where is the doting husband in those pics? Interesting post of youy day, love it.

Wes said...

Very cool! Tacking on some midweek mileage too, I see! Good for you!!

keith said...

You dressed up like a teacher makes me think of more than one Van Halen song.

Hellova job on the run.

Lori said...

Where are the pics of the food? I have been craving chicken parmesan for about a week now.

Your hair is so cute! I love it dressed up and ready for school and in your visor going for the run. Nothing better than versatility ;)

Junie B said...

goodness i canNOT wait to get to my dvr'd episode of PR!!! grrrrrrr!!

Laura N said...

Fun post! You are so cute. =)

runner26 said...

Cute post! Your day is very similar to mine...ya know, with the whole classroom/running thing going on and all...

Margo said...

I wish I had a digital camera! Wasn't Project Runway great?!

Anonymous said...

I love your first pic! You're so cute!

Midwest said...

Yay for Project Runway!

J~Mom said...

Love your pics!!! I am cracking up at the phone on your desk!! I had the same phone when I was a teacher and I don't even know if it worked. Your hair is so awesome! I wish I could go to your girl. LOL