i need photoshop and muscles.

I desperately want to create a pretty blog layout, but I need Photoshop!!! And/or Illustrator. I think that the computers in the Tech center here might have the Adobe Suite, but I need all the time I can get for working on my Excel and Word chapters. The Tech center is only open for certain times a week, and the computers in the library don't have the Adobe Suite. I really hope that I can remember how to create a webpage manually--Dreamweaver sucks.

My soreness from Sunday is completely gone... unfortunately. I actually kind of like staggering around in muscle pain the day after an intense workout. It makes me think, "No pain, no gain!" Alas, badminton and karate really don't deliver the same muscle pain/gain as running up and down hills for almost two hours does. Once I get some time off work, I'll go running again, but it looks like I can only go running once a week, what with school and work and all.


On Sunday, I actually took the community bus to the entrance of Alum Rock Park. LOL. I was so lazy...I didn't want to waste my energy running to the park; I wanted to use it to run up the steep hills. The bus dropped me off a few blocks away, so I ran to the entrance. Ugh, it was so bad. I was breaking a sweat even before I got to the entrance. Once I hit the plateau beyond the initial arghwhydididecidetodothisithurts stage, I was okay, even though I had to stop a lot.

Going up to Eagle Rock was KILLER!!!! Right before the first big hill, I was forced to stop and stare at the hill before me and gather back my breath. Finally I thought, "agh, whatever" and ran



ALL




the way up to the top.



IT SUCKED!!!!! well, rather, it burned. But it sucked. After the hill, I died and just walked. lol. So sad.

When I got back down, there was a guy in a blue jacket running next to me. I stopped to catch my breath at the bottom, and he paused and stretched for a minute. Then suddenly, Blue Jacket BURST past me in a sprint back up the hill. I just stood there and watched him, thinking "IS HE CRAZY??!!" He flew all the way up the hill.

That really inspired me to copy him and follow him back up the hill... at least, I felt less tired watching him flow effortlessly up the hill. But then it would have seemed weird to just follow him... so I turned around and went back home.

I think it would be cool to bike through the park. I would totally have done that had my bike not been stolen in sophomore year (?) of high school. It beats running...literally. I also want to bike through Guadalupe River Park, because I always see it when I take the 61/62 bus home. It looks like a nice place to bike. And then I got to thinking: what if I biked to school? That would be awesome! I don't know how far SJCC is from home, but I know it takes 30 minutes by bus and 10 minutes by freeway. I would probably have to wake up an hour earlier to make it on time for my first class...not to mention that it would be FRIGID if I biked home at 9pm. But...that would certainly give me a lot of exercise!