So, what have you been up to?

It always seems like I should have a better answer to this question. Have I blogged about this before? I've blogged about this before. Tough. People ask me this and I have no idea what to tell them. "You know. Working," I say. Sometimes I add, "working out a lot," even though I feel like that makes me sound like an asshole. It's the truth though (the working out, not the asshole part. OK, that too). Weekdays are a struggle to balance work with getting in shape while still trying to maintain a social life and wedge in a few hours for myself. I drive to the cove after work for a swim, then hit the gym. I sneak out mid-day for a yoga class or a bike ride. One of these days I'll get up early enough to start riding my bike in the morning. Really. I've just joined the tri club, maybe that will help. I'm trying to step it up from one workout a day to two or more and moral around here has been flagging. Some days I just want to sit on the couch.

On weekends, I volunteer. I spend hours driving foster kids around, trying to prevent them from beating each other to death in my car, trying to keep them in school, out of trouble, and vaguely entertained at the same time, but I don't really get into that with people I don't know well.

Sometimes I go to the movies. Often I go to the pub. I drink too much. I don't cook enough. Sometimes I stay out until 7 in the morning dancing with strangers (what am I, 19 again?) Changes need to be made around here. Do I tell them that?

I'd love to say I'd been writing, or even keeping up with my reading, and yet The Grapes of Wrath sits on my bedside table, the bookmark sitting in the same place-- just a few chapters away from completion-- that it's been in for months. (NOTE: It's not that I don't care what happens to the Joads, I just have a feeling it's not going to be happy). My blog is neglected and the story I started a year ago sits neglected on my laptop at about thirty desperately poor pages. Truth is, I barely have enough time in the day to get three meals in me and a few hours of sleep. I'm not complaining, mind you. A full day is better than one spent sitting on the couch looking at porn on my laptop.

Yeah, I find a little time to do that too.