Fun Saturday

What an awesome morning! I woke up at 7- no reason just woke up. So I made some coffee and drank it in bed with my laptop on my lap...this is my favorite way to start a Saturday morning : ) At 8:30 I left to meet my friend Heather for a run. We had such a great run! Heather wore her heart rate monitor and we tried to run the first third at 164-168 and the last two thirds at 170-174. We felt really strong and we were running fast. It was so great! It was snowing slightly and it was sunny. We finished up by doing a circuit with a bunch of people. These are my favorite because you don't get board- only 30 seconds of each exercise. We got some breakfast afterwards.
Then in the evening I headed to Oak Park where Alona took me out to dinner for my birthday. Then we watched Rent.

Sick

This morning I woke up feeling very sick. Some sort of stomach bug and a fever. It was terrible. I had plans to meet my friend Katie to study for the FE at 12:30 and by that time I had taken medicine and felt like I could journey outside. We studied until 3:30 and then I went home shivering and miserable again. I took more medicine and feel like I should be okay but whenever I get out of bed I can accomplish about 10 minutes worth of things and then I curl back up in bed. Urg! Well, no exercise today and hope I feel better soon. I was supposed to run with my friend Heather but we rescheduled for Saturday morning. On the job front, I really had my hopes set on doing research in the Sensory Motor Performance Program (SMPP) at RIC (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago). I applied a few weeks ago and didn't hear anything so I applied today to volunteer in the prosthetic department or the research department and I got the following response:

"Thank you for your interest in volunteering at RIC. We do not have any volunteer opportunities in prosthetics currently. As for research, I talked to someone in that dept and they said they have over 300 applications for 12 spots, sorry!"

I can't believe that I can't even volunteer! crazy.

If anyone reading my blog hears or knows of anyone who works for a company that does biomedical engineering (or just a company that you think is neat and hires engineers) please don’t hesitate to let me know. If anything, I could talk to them and get some ideas of places I should look at. Thanks!

Oh and I got a birthday present from my sister. Two wii remotes. Now I can play team games (I only had one). AND- I have a PINK controller. Ya! love pink!

photos for The Competitor

Tonight was so fun! I got an email awhile ago saying that The Competitor wanted to do a feature on our Fleet Feet team. They wanted to shoot some pictures for the cover of the magazine! I figured it would just be a few snaps but this was in a studio and it was so cool! They had us use an all white background. They did all sorts of crazy things like fans on us to blow our hair back and running and then jumping in the air so it looked like we were running really fast...it was all digital so I could see the pictures and they turned out really cool! I don't know which one they will choose (some were silly and some were serious) and there are a few that I would be a bit embarrassed if they chose ( too much skin showing or me looking really white compared to my teammates who tan) so hopefully they choose a good one. They are printing an extra 44,000 to put in everyone’s packet pick up for the Shamrock shuffle! wow! I have to admit that I am pretty excited for the S&L team to pick up their packets : )

playing with Jack

Today I watched Jack from 8-5. We had a great time.
<--Meet Jack! Jack and I getting ready to go for a walk (yep he has a patagonia jacket) Jack loves to play with the dogs

This is Jack's most used expression...it means..what's that (the camera)..give it to me Christina so I can put it in my mouth! : )

Beautiful Day

The lighting was so pretty all day. Sunny and clear. Jeff and I had a nice day. We watched alot of Olympics and we just had a chill day and then went out for a special dinner.

evening with friends in Chi

This morning I got disapointing news:

"Your qualifications, though quite good, were not what we were looking for. Our team is searching for someone with specific testing experience--a combination of mechanical, electrical, and biological experience. Good luck with your continued search."

So a half of a day wasted writing a cover letter but that's okay. It wasn't the best fit.

This evening we drove back to Chicago and had dinner and hung out with Matt and Shannon, and Ali and Matt. We had such a great time.

Thursday in a2

I spent all morning (while Jeff was at work) working on a cover letter for a test engineer position for a company who makes medical equipment...after having my mom, sister, and Jeff read and edit it I sent it along to a good friend who works at the company. Jeff had the afternoon off but then had to work in the evening so we hung out together in the afternoon and had an early dinner and then he went back to work. I answered a ton of emails and made Ted and Jeff a big batch of granola. It was fun. I decided to only put ingredients that were good for the brain in the granola since they are med students. It was fun to research "brain food". I learned some interesting little facts. I then went into town to see what was going on but on my way there Jeff called and said he got out early so that was a bonus!