Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of August! 
It’s the beginning of the month and there are 4 full weeks until the end of the month. This is a good time to make some plans for the month.
As usual, some discussion ideas:
- Do you want to share something you’ve done in the previous week or month? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
- Do you have any plans or goals for August?
- Do you have any streaks? For example, “sober for one day.” Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
- If you don’t have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
- Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?
Poster caption: “(To the) Victorious Motherland - glory!”
Good luck with your goals! 
At my volunteering gig, I got into an argument with this boomer who was constantly trying to boss me around and act like I had some ulterior motive for volunteering. She wasn’t anyone’s boss, but she’s been volunteering there for ages, so she has this attitude that she’s above me. Still, I should have just let it go. They didn’t text me to give me a schedule, so I guess that’s over.
I was mainly doing the volunteer work to kind of practice for working again, since I’ve been out of the workforce a long time. I’m kind of thinking that I should just enjoy the free time I have left before I have to rejoin the grind of wage labor.
I’m making good progress on running. I’ve run almost 60 miles so far this month, and broke my personal record for a 10k by a fair amount. I’m going to take it a little easier next week because I definitely overtrained.