... about stumbling across a friend's anonymous blog ( Read more... )

... Effffffff.

I'll post details later on in a friends-only post, but I just wanted to put it out there that the moment you think you're insulated from the economic downturn, is the moment it punches you in the face.

Things are weird and twisty right now; once I wrap my head around it I'll manage a coherent post.

I am stressed, stressed, stressed to the max. I've maybe only experienced this twice since leaving school -- once in 2007 while I was doing a major freelancing project for the paper (prior to getting a full-time job here) while still working 40 hours a week, and just after graduation, when I was trying to move/visit with family/actually get my ( Read more... )

... I'm engaged ( Read more... )

I think I'm channeling Corey a little bit when it comes to Christmas this year -- usually he's the one brimming with excitement and busting out "Christmas Vacation" before Halloween has barely passed. For some reason, I'm getting inordinately pumped for the holidays and heading back to Fredericton, especially since there's a few things working ( Read more... )

Guess it's time for another update, with an afternoon of little work and a lot of time staring me in the face. It's probably been about two months since I posted, and definitely the most interesting thing that's happen in that time was going on an east coast road trip to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ( Read more... )

So I did the Wolfe Island Classic 10k -- which I think I posted about a couple weeks ago -- on Sunday, and it was such a fantastic experience. I had so many misgivings leading up the race, but I'm so, so happy I decided to go through with it.

Liz and Phil headed down to Kingston on Friday so she could spend more time with her family, while I drove ( Read more... )

Westfest last weekend ... saw Joel Plaskett play a free concert, which was awesome. Somehow managed to finagle our way into the beer tent and managed to grab a great spot for the show. Beer was only $5 for a generous class, and they had the St. Ambroise apricot brand -- so tasty. Ryan, Catherine's boyfriend, got into a fight with a hippie -- with ( Read more... )

So against my better judgment, I've decided to do that 10k next month ... I've still got a little over three weeks left of training, and I've been running consistently since my week-long "rest period" after Race weekend, so I think I should be fine in terms of physical readiness ( Read more... )

So I ran my 10k in the Ottawa Race Weekend on Saturday ... my calves are still aching, but I managed to survive and only missed my goal by literal seconds.

I ran the course in 1:00:17, which was just off my goal of under an hour. I came in 3250th place overall (in a race with somewhere around 7,000 to 8,000 runners), 207th out of 4095 for all the ( Read more... )