Long time no post. Happy New Year, everyone ( Read more... )

Am heading North tomorrow for the holidays. I'll be checking in when I can, though I suspect this will be an unusually busy Christmas this year.

Happy, Joyful, Merry, and Relaxing Holidays to all!

After two marathon-length days at work (except I'm pretty sure I can run a marathon *now* faster than the length of time I had to spend on campus), exams are read, numbers are crunched, computer systems are vanquished, grades are posted, and I am D-O-N-E done ( Read more... )

Sometimes, at the end of an OMFGinsane week, what I need is a beer ( Read more... )

...which is no bad thing, especially since it's supposed to get cold this weekend. (Just in time for the weekly awesome social bike ride, which I will go on despite the weather's attempts to be thwarty, SO THERE ( Read more... )

10:02 AM: I've done a cycle interval workout (appropriately named "Suffer-O-Rama"), showered, eaten, commuted, swum for 25 minutes, picked up gas and emergency hair products (because I left my small pot of Magic Hair Goop in my travel bag, grrr), and am now sitting in my office ready to face the day ( Read more... )

Done yesterday, to be precise, in friggin' miserable conditions (running in 94 degrees plus humidity, anyone?). But done it was: the Chicago Triathlon, International Distance. 3 hours 19 minutes and change ( Read more... )

Yup, it's race day weekend. Looks like a gorgeous one, too, though it might be a bit toasty on the run Sunday (but not too bad ( Read more... )

Many of my flist will already have seen this, but in case you haven't, and if you're at all interested in fandoms of sci-fi (I think) varieties, please do check this out ( Read more... )

Lookit! troyswann made me an icon! 'Cos she is the coolest Salieri that ever existed ( Read more... )