These days I am working to change my theme song from this:
"Sad Sad Girl" by Greg Trooper

She's a sad, sad girl
A Sad, sad, girl
She don't try to fight it
Won't try to hide it
She's a sad, sad, girl

Was it always so?
Did her heart start that low?
Did she always believe
Love always deceives?
Was it always so?

No matter what you do
She'll pay no mind to you
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I don't know how much longer I'll keep this journal. But tonight I make a quick post!

• ran my first marathon in October. it was very difficult.
• ran two half marathons this weekend, one Saturday & one Sunday. that wasn't very difficult. cold though.
• love my apartment.
• my cat is crazy, he bites a lot and I don't know why, but he's still precious when ( Read more... )

I will post a real entry eventually, but to assuage my father, here is a nominal update regarding my new kitten Fry.  I have had Fry for one month.  This week I am bringing him to the vet to be neutered.  Poor little guy!

Things Fry likes to play with more than the toys I bought him:

• a leaf that comes in off my shoe
• a bug
• dirt from my plants
• plastic ( Read more... )

I want so, so badly to get my own apartment.  Space of my own.  A semblance of independence.  To take out and use all these homegoods I've been stockpiling over the last year.  To stop being a nomad and just settle.  I want to hang the bevy of framed photos that I have stashed under things.

But... apartments are expensive.

And it won't make my job or ( Read more... )

I am registered to run the Marine Corps Marathon on October 25 ( Read more... )

Let me just say I loved my half marathon!  It was so fun ( Read more... )

I hurt my leg (IT band for those "in the know") and for about 6 weeks wasn't able to run more than 1.5 miles without severe sharp pains in my knee which forced me to stop.  I finally went to the sports med doctor last Monday and he told me about the IT band and how to stretch and strengthen it.  Yesterday I was able to run 4 miles with little-to-no ( Read more... )

Bullet points of my recent life.

• I will be running the Shamrock half marathon in Virginia Beach on March 22. I am doing decently on my training; ran 8 miles today at Salem Lake. It was interesting to see the freeze patterns in the water.
• Looking back at my training log, my first step in this new running phase, was 1.7 miles on March 1, 2008.  I've ( Read more... )

North Carolina allows early voting. I stood in line for almost 2 hours tonight but darn it I voted ( Read more... )

Well, new shoes soon. Not sure if they'll arrive before I leave for Iceland but it doesn't matter because I wouldn't be bringing brand new shoes on my trip anyway. I just bought these for myself as a birthday present! Yay me!


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