It totally kicked my butt. Hopefully my butt will get smaller as it gets kicked every morning. I am spending the next three weeks going to bed at 9 pm so that I can wake up at 5 without feeling panicked. For the next three weeks, my goal is to take the best care of my physical body as I possibly can. We'll see if I feel mentally better. I'm sure I will.

This morning they worked us really hard, but I can do just about anything for an hour. By 6:30 it was all over. Usually I'd just be waking up at that point. I feel like I'm beating the system.

I came home, and after the morning get-ready-for-school routine, I came back and wrote a song. Maybe this is what I've needed all along. To just sweat so hard that a song comes out.