we just ran our marathon yesterday. :)  it wasn't very pleasant to run in the weather that's less than ideal.  it started out at 65oC and then it went up quickly to about 80oC at the noon time.  since this year i had a horrible training season and i knew i wouldn't be able to quality for boston (3:40) so i decided to just take it easy and don't ( Read more... )

Came back from Cary’s wedding last night with a whole stomach full of southern food and another 10 lbs packed up on my belly and all over my body, we were in Chicago again.  City was so familiar yet sometimes if feels so strange.  Sometimes I feel that I know every corner in the city, well, actually just our neighborhood, which is really restricted ( Read more... )

it's been a while sine i wrote anything here, but that doesn't mean nothing had happened.

let's see...  yeah, hurricane gustav, hmmm, how did it become our concern?  well, because of it, our new orleans sen's birthday trip was canceled.  friday night orbitz called and said that it's best we didn't go because they were going to have mandatory ( Read more... )

today we ran 16 miles.  normally this isn't a big deal for me cos i had done it many times and every time i was great at it.  but since the beginning of this training season, i haven't been having a great time training, i decided to run with 9:30 group so that i can go into marathon with strong confidence.  the run started pretty smoothly, the 9:30 ( Read more... )

Now it’s the same situation.  I am running the marathon against my self pity and my depression.  I know giving up is so easy and all I have to do is to stop and all the suffer and all the pain will just go away.  I know my brain is playing  tricks on me and I know it wants me to stop because it has too much toxic chemicals and it couldn’t take it ( Read more... )

1.  so i thought something was wrong with the book i am listening right now because after sen took the older chapters off and put the new ones on, when i started listening to it on the bus, something was not right about it--it started something completely different, and i was confused.  finally when i was running home last night i figured out what ( Read more... )

1.  sunday just stayed home and watched olympics all day long, except in the afternoon we went to see that loft on lincoln about the deck because last time we didn't get to see it.  this time the loft showed better, but still, it misses windows and it feels pretty dark at times.
2.  finally picked a paper to present for wednesday class. it's about ( Read more... )

1.  got up at 4:30 this morning and rode my bike to fleet feet.  on the way there, people were walking to the north beach to set up their tents for air and water show that started yesterday.  supposedly this year is the first year the show started on friday.  the sun was rising while i was on my bike, but i didn't get to the whole thing.
2.  ran 10 ( Read more... )

1.  used the new earphones on the bus, it's a lot better. i didn't have to turn up the volume to the loudest possible and it blocks noise on the bus, pretty good.  but later on it started hurting my ears a little bit, i guess i have to get used to them
2.  today is friday! :) and don't have to go to work this weekend.
3.  batman tomorrow, imax style ( Read more... )

1.  busy all day extracting dna and it felt pretty good--at least i am busy.. :)
2.  simon came in today after noon and gave me all his data and the dna he works with was pretty good--that's good news because i can use those dna for my projet; also they are domestic dna so that gives me hope about the dna i am extracting now.  hopefully they are not ( Read more... )