Well! not bad for a race I only heard about on Friday (thanks othercriteria, I wish you'd been here to do the race rather than having your present misadventures) and didn't register for till this morning. I wanted to do the 7.5 but as I mostly expected, that was closed by the time I got there, but I was still able to get into the 5K. Weather absolutely perfect ( Read more... )

Aw dang the White Stripes' new album is my hands-down favorite one as of completing the first listen! I think it's because it's the most consistently driving and rocking, rather than having any amount of folky/quiet songs, which I generally don't have much interest in no matter the artist, unless the sound colors are really captivating (e.g. Brian ( Read more... )

1. I really like the Hancock Tower and the Prudential in their context. This is sort of surprising, given my usual distaste for incredibly monotonous buildings, as the HT is and the Pru also pretty much is. I've seen a picture of the Prudential when it was under construction and it looked totally stupid because it there were no tall buildings ( Read more... )

I've been buried in PHP self-education for a little while to the expense of most other things, but I did drag myself away from the computers long enough this weekend to attend Williams Commencement 2007, which was absolutely worth it to see so many of my '07 friends all in one place once again. I ripped myself away from there to get back to NH to ( Read more... )

Follows a non-substantive post about music.

In addition to a nice fast (6:40) 7-miler yesterday in the fantastic fresh weather, I also have been listening to a large amount of Joy Division after discovering how appealing their music is by listening to the Heart and Soul box set from my roommate's iTunes library last week. Subsequently I obtained a ( Read more... )

I took off my beard this morning. It was sort of difficult to let it go, because I had it for over four months and it had grown to quite a respectable size, and yesterday one of sandomi's coworkers (boss?), whom I met at Davis with him on my way home, was heard to call my beard "perfect." But the warmer season is upon us now, and last weekend when I was ( Read more... )

So as you know by now, I got it done. It was definitely my most difficult marathon yet in the aggregate - none of the extreme duress of the last few miles of my first New Jersey Marathon, but the bulk of this was very slow and tedious. It's not a surprising result, considering my inadequate training, and my only hard goal was to get through it to ( Read more... )

I'm working on an entry about the marathon; it's in progress, but it's taking a while, it being a busy week around here. Maybe I'll be able to sneak it in during work tomorrowday. Meanwhile, though, I just got back from seeing the Ghostland Observatory for the second time (recently enough that I remember that they give themselves a "the") and, ( Read more... )

For some reason I'm supposed to get bused out from downtown by 6:30 for a 10:00 start. What gives. Anyway, that means that I got up at 4:00 to get ready, after having taken at least two hours to get to sleep, partly because my mind was occupied with how to stay warm during the hypothermic race conditions, but largely because the east rain was ( Read more... )

No that is not an Imus-imitating vocative, it is a declaration that I am about to head over to St. Louis for the WashU School of Architecture's open house, where I will have a whirlwind introduction to the school I will most likely be going to this fall (partly since I didn't get in anywhere else but largely because it sounds like an excellent ( Read more... )