Adjusting to Life

It's been too long since my last post. I've been doing an awful lot, trust me. In fact, I've gotten to experience flying in and out of both DC airports within a week.

2 weekends ago, I flew in and out of Dulles back to Iowa to go see some of my best friends get married (Congrats Jordan and Kara!). The following weekend, I flew in and out of Reagan National to Milwaukee to see my sister compete in the Miss Wisconsin pageant (She was awesome!).

United Airlines sucks, by the way. I just wanted to get that out there.

But that means, I haven't done a whole lot of exploring DC in that time frame. Still, I'm adjusting to living out here.

I'm doing an awful lot of walking. Getting groceries without a car is a pain in the neck, but I manage. I walk a half hour to work. I could take the Metro, but it only really saves me 5 minutes since I have to walk in a different direction to get to the station. Those trips are saved for when I feel exceptionally lazy.

I've memorized about the entire blue line on the Metro, and I've actually been able to correlate the Metro map with actual positions on the ground for a few weeks now!

The only bad thing has been my eating habits the past few weeks. I've not been bad, but I've not eaten very well either. I finally determined to get back on my carb-cycling diet that has been working for me for a few months now, with varying degrees of success (30 pounds off since January!).

I tried it again two weeks ago. All the walking makes low-carb days pretty rough. I don't have Mrs. Noble's candy stash to cheat off of anymore, so low-carb days truly are almost no-carb, and I am wiped by the end of the day!

I'm still having fun at the museum. Besides working in the observatory every day, I'm working on a school field-trip project. There have been a lot of hold ups, and we're sort of revising the scope of my project now; it's going to turn in to something that can be put on the website and used by any teacher and school planning a museum visit.

I've also been researching best practices in teaching the Next Generation Science Standards, writing reports and producing cool graphics on teaching strategies and Professional Development has become my thing. I think I'll have to officially become a science teacher after I finish my Master's Degree.

I'm trying to come up with a game plan for this weekend. A visit to the Spy Museum is in order, probably. I need to find a place to watch my NASCAR races besides my apartment, too. Looking forward to finally getting a lot of exploring in this weekend!