Archive for September, 2011

Nanners

30Sep11

After some meds and a less than pleasant night, all has returned to normal in tummyland. Wooo whoo! I hate taking medicine though so I’m getting to the bottom of this sooner or later. Whatever this is will be conquered! That being said, I wasn’t about to get all adventurous in the kitchen yet. But maybe […]


American Idiot

29Sep11

Right now, I should be out with the veggie crew enjoying our Thursday night dinner…instead, I’m in bed, feeling just like right before I left for this trip. 😦 My online searching tells me I’m showing symptoms of a parasite, anxiety (Get a grip, Cass. Classes JUST started.), food sensitivities or bad food…so basically who knows? Awesome. I’ll spare […]


I speak English. I sorta know Spanish. I’m rusty, but I was once pretty fluent in American Sign Language. I’m now trying to learn Turkish. & I feel like a failure among all these European kids who already speak like 5 languages. (see the like thrown in there? I’m also fluent in Californian. Go me.) […]


Day 2 of classes – check! Since I had a 9 a.m.-er who’s location I was a little shady on this morning, I pushed working out to the afternoon. And then my hips decided that now was the perfect time to be uncooperative again. So I ended up walking the back part of my out and back. […]


Last night, in my typical fashion, I could hardly sleep. I’ve never been able to sleep before the first day of school – too much excitement, too many things that could go wrong…sleep just never happens. Today, after briefly snoozing, I was up early and ready to tackle my workout and get on with the […]


Many the Miles

25Sep11

Today, I woke up ready to take on my longest run ever. It was time…to break out the fuel belt. Oh yes. I normally don’t like to eat before early runs but I figured it would probably be a good call before this so I had these shots did some yoga and set off with […]


I woke up early to salute the sun with mah gurl Jillian for an hour before trying to make a smoothie. And then failing. I miss my bullet already. But no matter because then I decided to take my fail and make lemonade. The lemonade being fruit cereal as I’d seen Katie eat. Peaches + bananas […]


Bebek Trek

23Sep11

Today, I decided to take a different running route and explored Bebek behind campus. So THIS is where all of Istanbul’s runners have been hiding from me! Tons of running space along the marina. It was perfect and I actually went longer than I was supposed to because I was so pleased with the discovery. […]


Bad Romance

22Sep11

It’s time to admit it…my Magic Bullet is no longer. My smoothie-making started to stink up the apartment with the scent of burnt plastic so it is time to say goodbye. That right there is a mass of partly pureed fruit, lots of frozen chunks and muesli. I’m not complaining though; I love when smoothies […]


Lazy Crazy Hazy

21Sep11

Today was one of those snack attack days where my stomach just didn’t want to quit/I was supppper sleepy. Rather than overanalyze, I went with it. Sometimes, you just gotta go with your gut. I think I fried my Magic Bullet this morning blending my green monster of peaches, banana, greens and oat/rice/soy milk…it was […]