I’ve been anxiety eating comfort foods all day.

Damn these MCATs…

Too nervous to eat.

MCAT scores in less than 3 hours. Ugh…

I had a thought.

When Alan and I were at the gym the other day, something occurred to me. We had just recently seen “The Avengers,” and I had read somewhere that Chris Hemsworth had to gain like 20 lbs of muscle for his role as Thor. He had to work out like a bajillion hours a day for a gazillion hours a week.

“I could never do that,” I told Alan. “That’s just not me.”

But that’s when the thought hit me. Playing a role in a movie, that’s his job. Looking the part of the character, that’s also his job. He’s making millions of millions of dollars at his job. Someone is literally paying him to work out so that he will look like Thor.

At which point I happily determined that I too would work out that much if someone paid me to.

That probably makes me a bad fitblr. I don’t care. Still, though, I’m currently accepting donations in the “Pay Rachel to Work Out” fund.

There’s a new girl in my hall.

I’ve said before on my main blog (I don’t know about here) that I consider the people who work in my hall to also be my coworkers. They’re not. They have different PIs, therefore different bosses. We get paid by different funds. But we work closely with each other and share lunch rooms and certain equipment…so they kind of are.

This new girl who works down the hall from me is an undergrad doing some summer research. She’s applying to med school in two years, so I can kind of get to be a “this is the process” mentor. I’m not by any means a shoe-in sort of candidate, but i still know what you need to do to be one.

Most importantly though, she’s a runner and a dietician major, so we can talk about that! She actually just told me to go sign up for the Color Me Rad 5K in August because she’s going to be running it too.

She’s super nice and loved my marathon running analogy for med school applications. I may actually have a friend at work now, which is really exciting!

But when i get excited, I talk too much, and sometimes I’m afraid I’ll scare people away and they won’t want to be friends with me. Like she had to actually say she was leaving to get back to work to shut me up about the marathon last week. I feel bad because it’s like I actually lack the ability to understand when people have had enough of listening to me talk. She didn’t seem displeased, just in a hurry.

Note to self, Rachel, you need to let other people talk sometimes too. Even if you are really excited that you have a friend to talk to about running now… And even if she keeps asking you about the MCATs and clinic hours and such. Sometimes, people just don’t want to hear your voice, ok? Ok.

I wanted to swim tonight.

But we grocery shop on Monday evenings, and the whole change, swim, shower, dry, change thing is just going to take too long. I would go after groceries, but the pools on campus aren’t open late enough for that.

Maybe if it’s not raining I’ll run instead.

Maybe if it is raining, I’ll be lazy and not do anything. Or maybe I’ll pack a bag and go to the gym. Only time will tell.

I wanted to post these earlier, but I got really busy. So instead, I’ll just do a major update about my whole weekend right now.

Friday night, after going to the Greek Festival, I got kind of stir crazy, so even though it was after midnight, Alan and I got dressed and walked to my favorite place in Oakland, the Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain. I’m actually really going to miss being able to walk there when we move in August.

Saturday evening, we got Pizza and went to see the Avengers! BEST MOVIE EVER!!! Joss Whedon is still my master. Epic. I’m kind of obsessed now. Kind of is probably an understatement.

Today, Alan and I went to the gym. I had a great time; he didn’t nearly as much. He did the same workout I did, but ended up over-exerting himself and feeling sick. It’s been a LONG time since he’s come to the gym. I guess neither of us really expected the change in fitness levels we both experienced over the last several months.

Greek Festival Dinner!!

Pastitsio, Souzoukakia, Spanakopita, Tiropeta.

Not pictured, but purchased and waiting to be nommed: Baklava, Diples, and Galatoboureko.

I love Greek food. I love food festivals. I love food. Obviously…

Rachel’s Incomplete Fitblr Bucket List

I figured I would make a list. 100 Fitblr-y Things I want to do before I die. Here’s my list (kind of in an order but not quite):

Actually, it’s really long, so you’ll have to click through.

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