I've had a great time this fall on some late-season cyclocross road trips with Jeremiah, most recently venturing down to Asheville, North Carolina where the weather was unusually chilly and the racing was nail biting. Hendersonville was a great little town, and our hosts were the best!
Though I've not been the avid biker lately, I have been hitting the gym for yoga, Pilates and my new favorite - the elliptical trainer. What do you call working out on an elliptical? Running? Spinning? Elliptisizing?
Anyway, getting to my yoga class on time requires me to finish up on the elliptical around 5:30. While elliptisizing, I channel surf between the local evening news, CNN, Oprah (yeah, right), Cash Cab and Nat Geo's Locked Up Abroad. I'm a sucker for trivia, but Cash Cab has a lot of commercials, and I've found myself watching "true stories of people who have ended up miles from home, in a foreign land in a situation beyond their worst nightmares." It might be the programming schedule, or just my dumb luck, but every Monday and Wednesday night features the same old story, just substitute the characters: Down-on-his-luck guy decides it's a good idea to run drugs/money/gold from one sketchy third world country to another for the promise of an all expenses paid vacation and fast cash. Can you see where this is going? Yeah, well apparently there are enough guys who didn't see it coming to create an entire television series. But I get off the eliptical at 5:30, so I don't know what happens to them after they "realize this was a bad idea."
I've also returned my attention to the working world. For the time being, I'm back to freelance writing, web design, marketing and event consultation. I'll probably scale it back for a bit starting in February. But I'm having a great time, and am excited to have contributed some magazine features to my alma mater JMU.
It seems like tons of things are going on, but I definitely enjoy squeezing in some time for fun projects like picking out fabric, cloths, gear, books and toys.
Who'd of thought my world would turn into a modern zoo so quickly?
- Erin
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