Cheeseball Movies

I’m usually one of those people who declines offers to watch goofball/stoner/laugh-out-loud/grossout comedies, saying that I’d rather wait until they come out on DVD or HBO. I know, I know… I’m so stuckup, but I might change my mind after last night. 

When the mood is right or you can get yourself in the right mindset, cheeseball movies are the quintessential antidote to an odd day or short-yet-seemingly-long week.

Seriously, if I was a member of the academy last night, I would’ve given Oscars to Blades of Glory and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

This isn’t to say I’m a total princess when it comes to this genre of flicks… Beerfest, anyone? And if you haven’t seen Grandma’s Boy, your life is meaningless.

En*dor*phins

For the life of me, I can never remember the word “endorphin,” the feel-good hormone released during exercise or other strenuous physical activities.

But after a day of being stuck inside my own head, stressing about the past and trying to predict the future, I started craving that  certain feeling… the high that combines out-of-breath satisfaction with pure, physical exhaustion; the feeling of supreme accomplishment that doesn’t really require brain power.

Simply put, I needed to f@$#in’ ruuuuuuuun.  

And I feel so much better now. With my kicks on, my gaze soft and my iPod bumping, I sweat out my angst. Other people vanished. Problems slipped away. The constant inner dialog disappeared. It was just me focusing on what my body needed me to do in order to keep going: straighten my back, adjust the speed, fix my headphones, drink some water, increase/decrease the incline, etc. But most important, I had to remind myself to just breathe, something we often forget to do on and off the treadmill.

Now I’m just basking in the afterglow of my endorphin-induced high. Life is pretty simple.

This Never Gets Old

USC 38 – Penn State 24

Rose Bowl champs three years in a row. 

Pac 10 champs seven years in a row. 

The cost to bask in the glory? $120,000 in student loans, scholarships, grants and federal work study. 

Totally worth it though.