It’s officially May which means that I will be graduating in a little over a month. That is an awesome thing to type out and share with the world. As you may know, I have set goals for myself and have being following them throughout this past quarter. Except, Meatless-Mondays is still a hard one for me to follow because I simply forget and then remember right after a carnivorous meal. Then I feel an awkward mixture of satisfaction and disappointment which kind of sucks. The feeling of guilt has to be one of the worst feelings to experience. You know that you messed up and it’s too late to fix the situation.

If you are unaware of my ecological footprint goals, they are:

1. Participate in meatless-Mondays.
2. Take James Bond showers.
3. Bike to the gym at least 5 times a week.

All of my goals have been going well except meatless-Mondays. I plan to set alarms for 8am each Monday. I will be honest, this will be an annoying thing to see right after you wake up but it will be engraved in my brain. My showers are becoming more and more James Bond as the quarter progresses. I am currently 60% James Bond and 40% Cody Hulsey. This is pretty damn good accomplishment that I am proud of because flipping that shower knob to the far right (ice cold) is tough. I find myself doing a mental countdown from 10, the closer  I get to 0, I find myself either starting the countdown over, or quickly flipping the knob to the right. It always takes a second for the coldness to fully transfer over but once the liquid icicles hit you, you become a race horse. You are frantically trying to get the rest of your conditioner or shampoo out and I find myself doing an awkward bouncing motion. Anyways, hopefully that wasn’t too much of a visual description of me showering. I have been doing well when it comes to biking to the gym. It really is the perfect pre-workout. You get a nice sweat going, blood flow through the legs and it’s pretty fun to speed through campus.

Ambitious is a word that I would like to have associated with my personal brand. With that said, I am going to add an additional ecological footprint goal. *DUN DUN DUN DUN* I eat a lot of food and still I find myself hungry. I am in need of an easy, portable, non-refrigerated food item that I can consume in between classes.  A fellow classmate of mine that goes by the name of Chris Childs, decided that he is going to consume a ton of PB&J sandwiches throughout the week because they have a low footprint. So, hat-tip to Mr. Childs for giving me inspiration and the idea of munching on PB&J sandwiches throughout the week. The dude is so influential!!!

But I want to make this qualitative and measurable, so I am going to make sure that I consume at least 5 per week. This will make sure that I am getting my extra protein and not getting “h-angry” throughout the day.

My UPDATED ecological footprint goals:

1. Participate in meatless-Mondays.
2. Take James Bond showers.
3. Bike to the gym at least 5 times a week.
4. Consume at least 5 PB&J’s per week.

I am a self-driven, ambitious, and hard-working individual who will make sure that I am able to fulfill these goals. BOO YAH!!!