As I am sure you have noticed or perhaps you haven't since surely my readers (the few of you there are) have abandoned me due to lack of publication. Sorry, I have been a little busy with life here in Dallas and super stressed about trying to find a job. I wish I could promise that I would be more diligent about this but we both know that isn't really going to happen.
Summer here in Dallas is getting super hot and I am trying to keep busy and cool. I thought that since it has been so long since we chatted I would let you know how my 2014 resolutions are going (you can read about them here).
1- try 50 new recipes
I think I have tried about 21 new recipes this year or new versions of recipes. I have a few new editions that I am super excited to share with you. I think I will actually make this goal.
2- Run 200 miles
To date I have run about 86 miles! I know I had high hopes of being over 100 already but since I jacked up my foot pretty bad in february I think I am making good progress. I think this is going to happen or at least get close. It is hard to get long runs in these days since it is still 100 when I get home from work.
3- Quit Stressing about the blog
Yeah, this is going as well as I had hoped. I was hoping for more of a post a few a week and be consistent with this but it turned out that I was so stressed that I just quit writing. Hopefully I will be able to get somewhere more balanced.
4- Apply for faculty jobs
This is actually going pretty well. The academic job market for 2015 is just now opening and I have found a few positions that I am going to apply for. So this is going to happen. This also probably means that I am so stressed that I will most likely post more often since that makes me not have to do work. :) I am looking forward to seeing what happens with this. I hope to be able to share some of this journey but it will probably be really vague since I can't really post anything about it... oh well we will see how it goes.
Since I hadn't really thought about these goals recently, this was a great refresher about where I have already been this year. I am hopeful that I will be able to actually keep up with my blogging and not be so stressed about all of this. I am not sure that will happen but since I find it somewhat cathartic to share my life I hope to get better about this. Well I am off to tackle the cleaning of this house since I have no desire to actually work on my work stuff.
