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Notes from the first half-century (in miles)
(Alternate Title: How having a doctorate does not protect you from being Der StupidPants, albeit with a good result.)
So, did you all hear about this woman? Got a bit turned around and ended up winning a race twice as long as the one she entered? This is the absolutely true story of how I am nothing like her.
[For starters, I don't run.]I rode the Mid-Hudson Bicycle Club ( Read more... ) -
Being the absolutely true story of a bug in my ear. This is not a metaphor.
[If that title made you squirm, you might want to skip the rest. Also: photo of a dead bug.]Picture if you will a perfect Maine summer day. Clear blue sky as far as the eye can see, which is pretty far because you're standing at the top of a hill in a wide open field.It's a might windy though, which is germane to this story. Because a gust of wind caught a bug and blew it directly into my right ear ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts from a sideline
I've spent some time on sporting event sidelines in the last few years. (5K and triathlon, mostly. Rae hasn't quite worked up to a marathon yet; I give it a year or two.) Here's the thing about these sidelines. They're like parades, but *better*. Objectively, a race is less interesting to watch than a parade; just a bunch of people doing the ( Read more... ) -
The stuff isn't enough
While I was in graduate school, I took up knitting. I wanted a hobby that would be inexpensive and that I could do while watching television. I had sewn in high school and college but it had been more than a decade since my sewing machine had moved out along with the roommate it actually belonged to, and a pair of needles and skein of yarn were ( Read more... ) -
Thinky thoughts on the Olympics Opening Ceremonies
My sister and I have this big ritual around the Opening Ceremonies which we weren't able to do this year due to some *very* poorly timed travel (AHEM - check the calender next time, missy!) and I was kind of maudlin as a result, which made me pensive.
( Paul McCartney is looking a bit... jowly. ) -
These are not first world problems, or, my day with Andrew and the National Guard
I know a lot of people think Irene was a whole lot of big whoop about nothing and would rather read El Bloombito (and OMG the things I could tell you about her....) but we're only just now seeing the end of the flooding here. Next comes the cleanup, and on Friday night, Andrew Cuomo announced volunteer cleanup days over Sunday and Monday of this ( Read more... ) -
From 191 to 13 (no, not my IQ)
If my IQ was 191, that would be really cool. really *really* cool. But no, that 191 was my LDL cholesterol. And 191 is bad. REALLY REALLY BAD. It wasn't just the LDL - all the numbers in my lipid panel were in the wrong place. It was so bad my primary care physician made a joke about checking I was still breathing, right before she started ( Read more... ) -
Whiny McWhinypants whines again
I have lived in the Northeast almost my entire life. I look forward to the turning of the seasons. I prefer cold weather to hot. And I have HAD IT with this winter. Somewhere on my front lawn is a 7 foot Christmas tree. I put it out there for the recyclers in early January. It was never collected and is now totally lost until spring because ( Read more... )
