Ah, ellipticals

Ah, ellipticals ... how I've missed you!

Went to the university Student Recreation Center yesterday for the first time and renewed my love affair-addiction with ellipticals. I could tell it had been awhile at first - pain and fatigue set it - but then we renewed our love and it was all good. Running fast! No pain in knees! Ah, life is beautiful in the SRC.

I saw the racquetball courts there - that would be much fun to play.

And now, back doing more reading and writing. Assignments for classes done quickly and easily, but all the damn extra reading - that takes more time. Met with prof last week and she suggests institutional theory to help bridge the gap between culture theory and policy analysis - but everything she gave me to read (and all that I've heard of) is so culture-specific that it's pretty worthless. I'll still read it for a written qualifying exam question, but it's no help with my conceptual framework for my research.

Things are bad with Dayton - he's angry with me and I'm angry with him. Mostly because of expectations that were not discussed (many of which are culturally inspired, so they are common sense to each of us but not the other), but exacerbated badly by distance and communication technical difficulties. If we were near, we'd be yelling at each other now, but then we would have the chance to work it out. As it is ... I dunno. I won't say there's no hope, but we may be taking a break until we see each other again and then work things out or walk away. This long-distance thing is really hard for us both.