Month: August 2008
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City2Surf 2008Well, we made it! I didn’t quite meet my goal of 100 minutes – we finished in about 105 – but that’s still an improvement of about 15 minutes on last year’s time. And what’s more, I felt really great during this year’s run. As I said to my Mom in an email afterwards:…
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Obama had one, McCain had two… I saw that billboard while driving around Goshen, Indiana last weekend and it nearly made me run off the road. Now who WOULDN’T want to check out that church!
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I’m home!Well, actually I got home yesterday, but I was in no fit state to post. The flight from LAX was actually one of the best I’ve had. We took off at 10:30pm and I was already feeling drowsy. They served dinner not long after take-off, and I popped one of the prescription sleeping pills…
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It’s time to finishing packing and GO HOME. Only another twenty hours til I get to see Snookums at the arrivals gate…
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It’s been pretty rough lately. I’ve just felt so sluggish and tired on my runs. Small wonder, given that I’ve been on eight airplanes in three weeks and I’ve been eating nothing but takeaways and junk food. Week 4 distance: 9.7mi (15.6km)Week 5 distance: 16.45mi (26.3km)Week 6 distance: 11.5mi (18.43km) So I dropped off again…
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Man. I feel fairly certain that I actually owned this Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox. I wish I still did!
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10 Mispronunciations That Make You Sound Stupid. I’m totally with them on all of those except for the “suppose to” and “use to.” If I’m just talking casually to someone, I’m not going to go to the effort of enunciating an extra “D” in there. And #9… I’m totally guilty of that one. I actually…
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Superbugs. Scary stuff. Which reminds me, there’s another hygiene-related oddity I’ve noticed over here (in addition to the antibacterial wipes at the grocery store). Every time I’ve been in the ladies’ room here at the office and another woman has come in, she’s used a toilet seat cover. (I can hear it being pulled out…
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The 100 Most Common English Words. How many can you guess in five minutes? I got 52. Judging by the Metafilter thread where I found the link, that’s a pretty good score!By the end there I was, like, reciting Shakespeare and the Gettysburg Address and stuff in my head trying to come up with common…
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Obama Town Hall Meeting in ElkhartBarack Obama held a Town Hall meeting at Concord High School this morning. I heard about it on the news at my Mom’s house last weekend. To my surprise, a couple people in my family mentioned their interest in going. (I don’t think anybody did though; it sounds like there…