Rain Rain Go Away

It’s official: this day already sucks. I am soaking wet from my hips to my ankles after the rain started pouring down right when I was walking the freaking mile I have to walk from the parking lot to get to my building. (To be totally accurate, it is not a mile. But it is a solid quarter mile, and it takes a good 4-5 minutes to do the walk.)
See, the parking situation at JSC basically sucks. My building includes the control center, which means there are always tons of people coming and going. The main parking lot fills up by about 8:15 a.m. The next parking lot fills by 9:00. The other parking lot, the one where you used to be able to always find a spot no matter what, is now closed indefinitely because they are constructing a new building and using the lot as a staging area. That leaves my “last-ditch” choice of parking, which means a quarter-mile walk. Most days I don’t mind it at all. But on days like today, when I get caught in a freaking downpour with horizontal rain, the ability to park closer to my building is much-desired.
Thankfully my officemate has a small portable heater that has dried out my pants quite nicely over the last 1.5 hours. Now if only I could dry my shoes…
Training for the Lonestar Half Ironman has entered its second week and it’s going well so far. This week, Tuesday was impossible — there was just no way for me to fit in a workout when I was at work until 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday are going to be continual issues thanks to class. I’m not sure if I’m going to have time for a workout today, but yesterday went like this:
4:30 – Leave my office, walk to parking lot, drive over to Gilruth
4:45 – Arrive at Gilruth, change clothes
4:55 – Start running, 4×400-400 with 1 mile warmup and 1 mile cooldown
5:40 – Finish running
6:00 – Arrive home
6:05 – Jump in shower
6:15 – Out of shower, throw a Lean Cuisine in the microwave
6:25 – Eat Lean Cuisine, burn my tongue
6:35 – Frantically gathering notebook, textbook, computer
6:40 – Leave for UHCL
7:00 – Butt in seat just as professor walks in
It was a very rushed evening, that’s for sure. And when I don’t get home until after 10, it’s hard to go right to bed, so I inevitably stay up too late winding down. Then I sleep in a little, and that’s how I ended up walking in to work this morning in a torrential downpour.
See? Full circle.
More class tonight. Jose’s check ride tomorrow!