June is such a busy month - for being my down time

This month has started out very busy. I made over 500 phone calls, started a summer school class, had several meetings, went to the dentist, started a new workout routine, and started watching So You Think You Can Dance! and we are only 6 days into the month!

This is supposed to be my down time! no more school visits, fewer students to help complete applications or acceptance information. and yet, I feel like I am busy all the time.

Work has been weird. my mornings are spent answering emails and getting coffee with coworkers until it is late enough in the day to make phone calls, then I call between 50 and 70 students to see if they still plan to attend the university, of course most of them aren't - it is June after all, I would hope they have made up their minds by now, but you would be surprised how many are shocked they have anything to do after being admitted, like their fall classes are just going to appear or something.

My coworkers and I have been taking the slower work days to be a little more health conscious. we are bringing our lunches and getting better drinks at starbucks. I realize that sounds like an oxymoron but their black tea is really good - and you get 50 cent refills if you bring your same cup back in the afternoon. which means I get two 20oz teas for less than the price of one 16oz mocha. it is physically and economically sound!

In other news I have started my summer school class. it is called applied inquiry and we are split into groups and have to design a research project. the best part is we only need to design the project, we don't have to actually do the research or find results! and all of our research projects are based on a real world problem some university department needs help with. My group is working on a social networking issue. This is perfect for me because my boss at work knows I have a facebook for work specifically for my high school kids to friend me on and he wants me to talk to some of the other recruiters about starting one and what they can do for it. So now I just happen to be in a group that will be working with the people at the university running the university's facebook page! I will make a couple of great contacts as well as learn some stuff that can help me at work!

The class is going to be a lot of work because we will have to do a literary review and a lot of research on why our particular assessment is the best for this particular issue, but at least we can delegate the work.

This week I also ran into an event the honors college was a part of. I met up with an assistant dean who asked how I was doing and said they missed me. I told her i would be interested in coming back to the college if any new and exciting opportunities started up. and she said they might have some. I will see what that leads to, if anything, but at least I put my name out there.

What else? oh yeah, I did start a new workout plan. I found a workout playlist online at itunes. basically it has 4 tracks and it is going to train me to run a mile in 4 weeks. each week I play a new track and it tells me when to walk and when to run. it works for a treadmill or outdoors. I do the workout three times a week and this was my first week. it is 20 minutes long and i only run a total of 2 minutes in the whole thing, but it is definitely a workout. probably the coolest thing is that the treadmills at the student rec center have individual TVs attacted! so I can watch whatever I want while i run. it is perfect.

At home, Meg has moved out, which is sad, but for some reason Brett and I have started hanging out more. when I come home from working out after work she is usually in the living room watching TV. so we have started watching I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and So You Think You Can Dance together. I'm a Celebrity is horrible and quite the guilty pleasure, somehow I can't turn it off. but So You Think...is one of the best shows on TV! the things these dancers can do is unbelievable! next week starts the actual competition! everyone in my office watches the show and we all talk about it the next day.

This week I was able to see Up and The Hangover as well. both are really funny movies, I mean seriously funny! but only Up is family friendly. It perfectly captures the attitude and behaviors of an 8 year old and a crotchety old man. hilarious! The Hangover is a move about a group of guys who can't remember anything that happened the night before at their bachelor party. It has so many funny parts you miss some of the jokes because you are laughing at the last one. definitely a movie that has to be seen more than once to truly enjoy. but I am still laughing at some of the parts - I will be quoting it for a very long time.

On Monday I get to go to Michaela's classroom and talk to her 8th graders about going to college and what to do all through high school to prepare themselves. it's going to be so fun to see her teach!

The rest of june is going to be pretty busy too - what I am looking forward to most is visiting Greg and Tomoko in about 2 weeks. I get to stay with them over father's day (I am sure Ariana is busy planning the perfect father's day). It will be a really fun vacation for me!