June 2009
21 posts
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Today probably isn’t the best day ever. It’s super cool how little things just make it worse and worse.
Yeah, whatever.
This weekend wasn’t the best. I constantly got the feeling that pretty much nothing I did in college was quite good enough.
My 12-miler didn’t go as smoothly as I’d hoped, and I had to run an extra mile at the end to make up for it.
This morning, when I went to put on my favorite sweatshirt, I discovered that the zipper is completely broken.
What next?
Boy Struck By Meteorite →
This is a great article, both for the extremely accurate reporting and for the fact that this would be a great get-out-of-school excuse.
Debate
I’m considering deleting my other blog (hosted on Wordpress) and moving to Tumblr. This is for a variety of reasons, but for some reason I just can’t decide. Maybe I’ll just delete everything and start over.
My Shiny New Running Log →
My own personal log on www.running-log.com. I just discovered this site today while hunting for a log that wouldn’t make me feel bad about how much I eat. It’s pretty simple and uncluttered, and I like the options to record various workouts including biking and weights! I’m also a fan of the ability to keep track of how many miles are being logged on your shoes.
Eating Out
Ever since we moved to our new apartment, it’s become a regular thing to pack my lunch for work. I’ve only been out to eat at lunch one other time since the beginning of May. It’s basically been a steady diet of turkey sandwiches, grapes, carrots, bananas, and no-bake cookies. I like it.
Today, I went out to to one of my favorite restaurants with the office crew. I’m not...
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Unsettled? Worried? Preturbed? This is the emoticon for you. Use sparingly, so as not to reach emoticon saturation. Facial expressions = thousands of words, so you’re saving a lot of paper…or screen space, at least.
“We only know how close we are to ABSOLUTE APOCALYPSE when it is narrowly...”
– Me, on today’s almost-disaster
Commenting
Now that I’ve added commenting to this blog, I feel kind of ambivalent about it. We’ll see how this goes.
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
– Ben Franklin
May 2009
31 posts
First!
There’s really nothing better than winning your age group in a race and walking away with a nice shiny medal. Okay, so maybe it would have been better to walk away with a nice trophy—but the 30-year-old woman that beat me out for it clearly deserved it.
Weights and the Lifting Thereof
I have to admit that normally I’m a big advocate for not weightlifting. I hate to be a total girl, but there it is—I’m a total girl. I don’t even like lifting heavy boxes.
Over Christmas Break, though, something gave me a reason to do some reps. My parents and I visited an MC Sports looking for a recumbent bike for my dad, and they immediately spotted a new weight bench...
Sketch →
If you’ve never heard of Brevity, you should check it out. The story I’ve linked here is one of my favorites from the current issue.
“I notice the guy sketching even before I sit down, but it’s not a strategic decision at all. When I have a choice I try to sit facing the eye candy, and this guy’s not even close to handsome. But it’s the only available chair in the coffee shop,...
Six Words
I’ve been thinking about six-word stories lately. I’m not sure if I could write a really good one. Hemingway wrote the best one I’ve ever read:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
For now, I’m sticking with essays.
“She never understood that love — especially that of a child — was...”
– The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, Tiffany Baker
Mysterious Ways
As it turns out, my Garmin’s inaccuracy extends only to the pace feature in the woods. This morning I chose to ignore the pacing feature during the “woodland adventure” part of my run and ended up going really fast anyway. My favorite thing about running seven miles in an hour is that it used to take me that long to get six miles. Ha.
I signed up for a diet & exercise...
It came to me then that every plan is a tiny...
WatchWant to watch a cover for The New Yorker being painted? Here’s the best part: it was done on an iPhone.
Hobie's Restaurant →
Hobie’s is hidden in plain sight. I’ve worked less than two minutes from this restaurant for over a year, and I never knew it existed until last week. I can’t vouch for anything complicated, but they have excellent plain turkey sandwiches (turkey without edges & thick, soft bread) and awesome chicken noodle soup. My lunch today was totally worth the $10.
The Woods are Lovely
This morning I woke up early to go for a 6-mile run. It didn’t seem difficult at all, happily—I’m so sick of being sick. The thing that worries me is that my Forerunner seems to have a problem with reporting my pace accurately in the woods. I simply don’t run 17-minute miles. The mile splits themselves were okay, but now I’m worried that it didn’t report my...
1217.) I'm scared to grow up.
(via blogsecret)
I’m kind of trying to avoid it.
“Running is still as grueling as ever, but life outside of running is getting...”
– The Newbie Chronicles, Runner’s World
Ode to an Oversized Watch-Like Piece of Heaven
Last weekend when I went home, I left my running GPS on the table near the front hallway. I felt lost without it all week (seriously). I only went running without it twice, and not knowing how far I’d gone was terrible. It was almost as bad as the time I forgot it when we ran the Disney Princess Half Marathon. I actually resorted to running mile repeats on the sidewalks of our apartment...
Spotlight Michigan →
Nice work, MSU students! These kids did some great work for Michigan and have some pretty neat ideas going on.
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
– Franklin P. Adams
Old?
Today I set about solving a problem. I had to bother probably three different people in order to get it solved. One responded very nicely, one responded apologetically and made me feel a little bad, and one hasn’t written back yet (and probably thinks I’m a tad annoying). Anyway, it’s pretty much solved now. If this same thing had happened to me four years ago, I’d probably...
Really?
I find it endlessly irritating when people that shouldn’t know potentially upsetting facts about your work life approach you in the hallway at 8:30 AM and shout out the good news that you’ll probably be fired if you can’t find a way to make the graduate school work for you.
Upside: my lunch today was really great, from the turkey sandwich to the nobake cookies to the banana. The...
Join the Nethernet! →
The Nethernet is a game that is the Internet. Really. If you have Mozilla Firefox, you can play. You just have to sign up and download a toolbar—then, the entire Internet is a giant game. As you go about your regular websurfing, you encounter and produce in-game events like mines, discovering DP cards (in-game currency) and much more. I’d say it’s addicting, but it’d be...