Day in the Life #13

Happy Wednesday! I wanted to share a typical day in the life with you, and then the day turned out to be a little atypical in terms of what actually happened and what I actually accomplished. You’ll sort of see why. It happens. 

Anyway, yesterday I started yoga teacher training and will be sure to fill you in more on that in the coming weeks. Until then, check out what I did and ate Monday!

5:40 am – Wake up a little later than normal. Lie in bed a little longer than normal. I think I slept straight through the night. I’ve been doing that more and more lately, and I’m still super ready for bed by 10:00.

5:52 am – Change into workout clothes. Sip water and eat a few gummy Airbornes. I’ve been taking them every day since coming back to school, and I haven’t gotten sick. It’s probably more coincidental than causal, but I’ll take it.

5:57 am – Walk to the gym. My hip twinges a little. Blah.

6:10 am – I do a short circuit of upper body weights and then hit the elliptical for about a half an hour for the workout Coach Suz prescribed me. Afterward, I do most of my physical therapy and some foam rolling.

I’ll do the rest of my stretching tonight.

7:21 am – See a family looking at a map on my way back from the gym. Help direct them toward Rockefeller Chapel. I have a feeling I said 55th when I meant 57th, but I pointed them in the right direction. It’s a big pretty church. They’ll find it.

7:28 am – Get back to the dorm. My roommate is just getting up and has class earlier than I do, so while she hops in the shower, I clean up the counter, make my bed, and put away some dishes.

7:56 am – Shower, makeup, hair. All while scrolling through social media.

8:40 am – Start making breakfast. I finish off my riced cauliflower and make more cauli-oats.

9:17 am – Sit down and start to eat while reading blogs and texting my study group about class in an hour. Set out ground beef from the freezer for dinner. Continue reading blogs, researching American history, and trying to figure out what I’m actually making for dinner.

10:14 am – Leave for class. It’s the same one that was kinda nightmarish last Monday, and I’m a little nervous. 

11:50 am – Class ends and it was actually worse than I expected. I commiserate with some friends for about 10 minutes about how badly it went and how we don’t know what to do for this class. It’s almost laughable. Honestly, we do laugh about it, mostly in disbelief. Ugh.

12:01 pm – Get back to the dorm. Run into some first years studying for a midterm from one of my favorite teachers. They tell me I look stressed, so I tell them about my class… and advise them not to take it. Text my parents and ask them to call when they have time to listen to me vent. Also vent to one of my roommates.

1:20 pm – At this point, I’ve told way too many people about the class where we were told how stupid we were repeatedly. I’ve spent way too much time obsessing about it. I pause obsessing for lunch.

I had a couple leftover Baked Egg & Parsnip Nests, a giant purple carrot, and a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese for dipping. I’m not a cream cheese person, but I like those. I tell myself I’ll eat, schedule some social media, and start working by 2:30. 

2:31 pm – Hm. Nah. I eat some pistachios and Greek yogurt and decide to start working around 3:30. Continue procrastinating by scheduling social media and responding to email.

3:15 pm – Eat cottage cheese and dark chocolate covered cacao nibs from Trader Joe’s.

They’re so chocolatey. Love love love.

3:32 pm – Get kind of mad at myself for being so unproductive while panicking about this class. Yes, the course evaluations were bad. Yes, I ignored them. Yes, the content is interesting. And, yes, the professor is terrifying. Decide to get the hell over it. 

Finally start reading one of the optional textbooks for American Economic History. It actually seems fairly useful, so I finish the chapters that seem relevant for now. And then I start rereading what we’ve already read, since I clearly haven’t absorbed it to the professor’s liking.

5:00 pm – I’m still convinced that the reading doesn’t really help much with the answers the teacher was looking for, and I want to start making dinner. I can read more later or tomorrow or something.

5:09 pm – Start browning ground beef, and also call my dad to chat on his way home from work. I sort of resolve to go talk to my scary professor tomorrow during office hours. I’m terrified, but hey. Maybe he’s nice out of class? (I went to office hours and they were also fairly scary, but I stuck it out for like 45 minutes.)

5:25 pm – Chop up an onion and mushrooms. Add those, plus fire-roasted tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, and a bunch of spices to the ground beef. Simmer simmer simmer.

6:24 pm – Pile about a quarter of my beef mixture onto butternut squash noodles.

Devour.

6:52 pm – Go wash dishes and put away my leftovers. Chat with my roommate and some friends who just came over. Offer to help with econ homework they have. They’re public policy majors taking the beginning econ classes for their major. Then grab more cacao nibs and make some tea.

7:20 pm – Skim some reading for Ancient Empires. Decide I’m too tired to do more American econ reading tonight. Start this post, occasionally entering conversation about econ, cartoons, and bread with my housemates. Also, honestly trying not to fall asleep.

8:12 pm – Pull together a snack.

Apple, almond butter, sweet potato, dark chocolate. Pretty standard, but still freaking delicious. Do a bunch of editing for Fit U. 

9:34 pm – Know I should go to bed, but my roommate made bread and I feel like staying up and relaxing.

So I eat a roll, read some blogs, chat, finish up PT and stretching, and then go to bed.

9:59 pm – Turn on the air conditioner and crawl in my cozy bed. Possibly my favorite moment of this particular day.

10:17 pm – Stop scrolling through Instagram and pass out.

An attempt at a typical Monday in the life of an undergrad. #bgbcommunity #fitfluential #wiaw Share on X

Your turn:

Are you good at letting things go or do you obsess? Um, you can see what I did. Soon, I’ll let you know how I get over stuff like that.

How was your Monday?