Random man on the neighboring treadmill, after observing me reading a school book while power walking:

"Wow, I can't get my students to study or exercise, and you're doing both! I'm so impressed!"

My New Years Resolutions for 2008 were to make 2008 The year of Travel, and to lose weight/work out regularly (original, I know ( Read more... )

Since my last post the following has happened:

1. I have a boyfriend. His name is Don.

2. I went trick-or-treating with Patty, Raul and their kids for the third year running. Niko said "Clare, can you come trick-or-treating with us ALWAYS?". This made me melt, I really love those kids.

Patty, Chachi (the yellow power ranger) and me.

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A while ago, there was a... herd? collection? group?... of goats that appeared to be living in the covered parking lot of my office building. Not living there by choice, they were in cages, and for a while a pen type thing. Some ladies with lawn chairs and blankets seemed to be babysitting them. We never figured out why they were here, and one day ( Read more... )

I ate far too much at lunch and I'm not quite ready to start work yet. I took this from Jenny ( Read more... )

"It's like picking a Doctor. If you are getting surgery, would you prefer the Doctor who has performed 100 surgeries, or the one who has performed thousands? That is why I am voting for McCain"

No.

I didn't fail Finance! I got a B after some miracle occurred (or perhaps just approx. 30 hours of all-work-and-no-fun) and I got a 96 on the Final. Wooo ( Read more... )

My faux-brother's 30th birthday

I met my SLC family and some family friends at the Denver airport, smiles and hugs all around

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SchoolSo it looks like I am going to do better in my Finance class than in my Marketing class. Sadly this does not mean that I pulled some kind of miracle move in Finance, it's just that I was 10 minutes late in submitting my last three Marketing papers and the professor chose not to overlook it. Awesome. So I now have a C in a class I should have ( Read more... )

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Bold those you have read.
2) Underline the books you LOVE (I opted for asterisks).
4) Reprint this list in your own blog.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen**
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter ( Read more... )