Rant

[kephus]

GODDAMNIT!

After a winter of biting cold, unshoveled paths, and wretched winds running outside it's finally spring. And I've gotten my mileage up to where running more than an hour isn't hard. So of course my knee is bugging me. *ANGER!*

Stupid cough! Go away, no one wants you here!

Is there anything less thrilling than trying to find a

Comments

[kephus]

Thanks. I know this is the way to do it, it's just one of those days.

How did you go about finding a job someplace far away? I'm in the process of moving to Seattle and have been hunting Monster.com and Craigslist but am always up for new ideas.

You're goddamn right runners are tough as nails! You're goddamn right.

[adamisahippy]

Take ~3,000mg of acetaminophen before you run, that'll quiet the knee down. Make sure you're running on hard surfaces, and just fight through it. If it's a big deal, it'll tell you, otherwise clench your teeth and it'll go away

[cookiesr1]

What kind of job are you looking for? Where do you work now? Where from? I like these entries...

[kephus]

Ideally? I'd love to work in a kitchen or resturant, bookstore, coffee shop, library, State Park, Farm, or running store.

However, most of my experience (and current job) are related to telephone repair and/or provisioning. Not interesting. Not fun. Not thought provoking. Sadly it's what, at the moment, pays the best.

Pretty much I want to get a job to get my feet on the ground in Seattle and then go to Cullinary school.

[cookiesr1]

When are you heading to Seattle? That's cool, I'm working part time at Starbucks now, it's actually pretty good. Definitely fun working in the earlier part of the day since I'm used to that and it's fun seeing the regular people come in.

[kephus]

Seattle in late July is the plan at the moment.

I love being up super early (I think it's that farm mentality). The best days are the ones where the sun comes up during your run and then you are relaxing and drinking coffee post-run as everyone else wakes up.

Regular people? Hahahaha. That's every non-runner in my book :)

[kid_philosopher]

What happened to your knee or is it just something that comes and goes? Perhaps the change in weather is affecting it and once things settle it will cease to hurt...

I haven't ever searched for a job online, but many of my friends have and, yes, it sounds utterly dull and boring in a sense.

The art of conversation has gone downhill in everday life so finding a person to hold an acceptable one (that sounds rather pretentious of me, oh well) is hard. When you find that girl, amke certain she has a brother and send him my way.

I think DC Pete sounds the most exciting and, from that and the previous Aquaman comment, I think I've found a fellow DC comics fan. I'm intrigued... there are too few around.

[kephus]

Beats the hell outta me, I've never had this issue before. Checking the symptoms at Runnersworld.com though suggests that I take anti-inflammitories before running and ice it after. Seems to be working. Gonna try to work in some cross training on a bike too.

I don't know if its my recent transition from college town to non, or if its just the Detroit area, but conversations past the most trivial event or latest TV shows seems to be utterly lost here. On the plus side witty use of sarcastic comments and 'big words' goes near completely uncontested.

It's not that I'm against Marvel, they've some great comics (the Ultimate line, genius!) it's just that DC is so much better! The relaunch of JLA with Grant Morrison and Howard Porter may be my favorite run of comics ever. Everyone's shown how their characters should be. Aquaman's an arrogant badass. Wonder Woman's a tough as nails warrior. J'onn J'onzz is the quiet shaman of the group with a billion powers. The Flash is relaxed and easygoing. Green Lantern's the rookie.

[kid_philosopher]

I've always been the largest Batman fan. It's different being a girl into comics (walking into stores meant I would just get these stares) but... ah, they are great. I haven't kept up with them in a while, but I certainly have a box at my house in Arizona filled with a good hundred or so. I'm more of a sidekick fan than a JLA (lines like Robin, Batgirl in the Batman universe), but have always loved the dynamic that (comes and goes depending on who is in charge) that is created with the JLA. There certainly are weak moments which is always disappointing since you just kinda have to sit back and let the crappiness runs its course

[ormusophir]

But the good news is that "megalomaniac" is one of my students' vocab words for the week after next!

...yeah, I got nothing.

[kephus]

You lie! Seriously? That's about the coolest thing I've ever heard! What kind of lesson plan do you have? A case study on Lex Luthor? Maybe a analysis on the faulty logic involved in explaining one's plot to the hero? Dr Evil - Deconstructed. Wow, such possibilities, I'm totally jealous.

[ormusophir]

Nothing so AWESOME, but now I TOTALLY don't have to think of an example for their malleable high school minds to wrap around the term. Yessss.