April 4 - Richmond, IN, Earlham College

I'm coming home.

I'm staying with Alex, my academic dad, right now in London ( Read more... )

3:19:03. Quite pleased ( Read more... )

My summer looks like this, I think ( Read more... )

I was offered a job teaching English in the Basque region of Spain ( Read more... )

I've had quite a few long runs, including three 20 or longer. I feel like my training was better before I went to France, but I might be wrong. I haven't done much speed. But I'm 13 days away, healthy, and my training's been good enough. My shoes get here on Thursday (which I'm a bit angry about, actually. They got here last Friday, but UPS seems ( Read more... )

I'm learning Dutch.

Derk has taught me the odd word, of which I only remember how to say "varken," pig.
Meanwhile, my running partner Rachel is teaching me handy phrases to surprise Derk with.

I'm dating Derk and that is nice.

Pictures from the St Andrews XC weekend trip to Glen Nevis and the Queen's XC France road trip are here.

Exciting things happened: the company was excellent; the Notre Dame was "IMMENSE. MAGNIFICENT. TERRIBLE."; Leslie was the first Canadian at University Worlds ( Read more... )

I love those rare people who not only define what friendship is, but re-define who I am as well.