Update

First thing, I have officially had more than 1000 people look at this blog. Wow. I am thrilled and think it's great that people are checking in. I have decided to stop complaining about all the time on my hands and devote it to good causes-well, better causes, such as cleaning my room, knitting the sleeves for my sweater and keeping up with my blog!

That said, here's the latest. I have two interviews next week. I am so excited. The one is for a place whose ad declared "Nerds Wanted." Since it was practically flashing my name in bright lights I promptly sent them a cover letter listing my nerdiest attributes. They include but are not limited to: I am in not one, but two book clubs. I rarely lose at Scrabble. I know twenty chords on the guitar and can therefore play roughly ninety percent of the Eagles Greatest Hits. I have a blog. I taught algerbra in summer school this past July. I went to Vanderbilt, the "Harvard of the South." Well that surely got their attention so here I am heading in to convince them that I am the one they want next Wednesday. The other interview is for a really exciting company that is on the verge of some major advances in the way we shop and use technology, so I am really eager to hear what kind of position they may have for me.

Other than that, I was reading today and found this which I thought was really interesting, mostly because I related to it. If you’re reading this, you probably have had some of the same feelings about your weight and its effect on your dating life. It’s not uncommon, especially for women. Body-image issues can impact your love life in a couple of ways. “Body image problems almost always occur in conjunction with low self-confidence,” explains Maximillian Wachtel, Ph.D., of Cherry Creek Psychology in Denver. “If you are feeling self-conscious about how you look, you are going to exude low self-confidence. That is not going to be an attractive quality..." What’s more, body-image problems are frequently associated with anxiety. “Overwhelming anxiety can turn a decent date into a nightmare, especially if you start panicking half-way through dinner about how much you’ve eaten just in case your date ends up seeing you in your underwear.” I am not exactly in the "dating scene" as it were, but I am conscious of how I look, who isn't really, and the anxiety/body-image is coming into play bigtime these days, with my overwhelming feelings of insecurity about not having a job bleeding into my daily calendar. I feel exceedingly anxious if I don't work out in some way these days, and am already worried about how I am going to keep it up once I am working as well. I am constantly weighing myself and keeping track of every thing I eat. It's weird how your worries about one thing show up in another part of your life. Poor Levi has taken the brunt of a lot of my anxiety and stress, and I have to say for the record how lucky I am that he is as patient and loving as he is. I could not ask for a better. He is my media naranja.

On with the non-gushy stuff. I L-O-V-E Project Runway. It is just so Fab! Really. Michael so HAS to win, it's not even funny, he is by far the best designer (except for that purple Paris number...) and most stylish guy on the runway.

Ok I am going to have some lunch. Chimichurri rice! Yum!