odor patrol

this is my first full week of odor patroling and it is wednesday and i am exhausted.  oh, not from getting up at 4:50 am every morning.  that's actually been good.  i feel like i've done so much today and it's only 12:30 in the afternoon, so the early morning call time ain't the problem.  it's the walking.  i essentially walk up and down hills for four hours every morning and for this sack of laziness, that's a pretty tall order.  despite the fact that i was on track teams for seven years sprinting my little heart out, i am by nature incredibly lazy.  i became a hurdler simply because hurdle practice followed general conditioning on mondays and was conveniently at the same time as the intense sprint workouts.  i was able to sprint and hurdle at meets and i also dodged the deadly bullet of endless repeats on mondays on our shitty, gravelly track.  yes, i am that devious.  (for the record, though, i was actually decent at hurdles and really enjoyed them.  i just came to them in a sneaky way.)

annnnnyway, so the walking is killing me.  i will get used to it, i'm sure, but as of right now, even my shoulders are sore and i can assure you i haven't been doing my rounds carrying extra weights.

silver lining to the misery of my feet, legs and back?  i picked up a paycheck today (aka i should shut my mouth about being sore).  i haven't had a check cut in my name for what seems like decades and there are things that must be handled, so things are on the up and up.  yipee!