Aidan’s Hometown Honey

Fucking social networking sites are ruinous.  RUINOUS!  Hours of my life I will never get back, wasted on mundane tidbits such as finding out where the guy who almost asked me to Junior prom is hanging out these days.  (DC, in a hospital pretending he’s George Clooney, if you must know.)
Last month, I came across [...]

Tuesday Night at the ER

I spent last night waiting in an ER for reasons I don’t care to share.  In an act of brazen denial, I treated the entire affair as a people watching event.  Here are some highlights:
There was an entire family wearing giant, white t-shirts.  The grade school age children’s might have been bigger than their parents’.  [...]

Pain

I’m not very in tune with physical pain.  I traveled the midwest for a month with what turned out to be a severe case of falciparum malaria after I returned from Zimbabwe.  It sucked, but I just figured that malaria would suck more. 
 I’ve been called “tough cookie” and “stubborn as a mule.”  I’m both, but [...]

Can I bore you some more? 34 days to marathon day

So I got back from our pre-anniversary vacation at 1 AM on Saturday, and I got up at 6:30 to go run 18.6 miles  in really hot, nasty weather for this time of year.  It was a rude awakening to go from perfect running conditions up on Madeline Island in Lake Superior to southeastern soup.  [...]

Shitty Parent Stories

My family moved a lot.  “Rootless,” get it?  Yeah, pretty subtle. 
I attended two high schools, but my youngest brother Peter attended three.  Yes, my parents moved twice during his high school years.  The moves likely cost him a division one athletic scholarship, among other things. 
Peter has been visiting, and one night last week he told me about his first day [...]

Marathon training, lost track of the weeks

So it’s going great.  I’m getting most of my miles in.  I think I’ve skipped no more than 3 short runs.  Tomorrow I have to knock out a niner on my own.  Should be fun.
 I’m getting faster.  The limited hills and intervals I’m doing seem to be paying off.  I’m edging much closer to a [...]

Adult Education, continued

All day, the most recent post title rattled around in my head and I couldn’t figure out why.  I kept thinking of Hall and Oates, too.  Weird.  While they occasionally enter my conscious thoughts, Darryl and John are not popping up on my radar very often. 
Ok, that’s a total lie.  Rich Girl, Sara Smile, SHE’S GONE?  [...]

To do: Drink Hippie Kool-Ade

Check.
Today I purchased all the accoutrements necessary to rig up a slackline in my backyard.  Now all I need is a few tie-back shirts, patchwork skirts, patchouli, and some flour tortillas to throw around at a String Cheese Incident show and my transformation would be complete. 

Not a vegan

“Guess what.  I’m a vegetarian.”
The words didn’t really sink in when my brother Jamie said them today.  I was parking the car, preoccupied, and not giving his phone call my full attention.
“Huhhh.  Wait, what?”
“I’m a vegetarian.  I started reading this book last week called The China Study.  It’s pretty good.  You should read it.”
I can’t easily [...]

Incoming

The other day, a friend accidentally stood me up for a dinner date.  She has protected access to her building, and the call system rings through to her phone, which was off.  I waited outside her building for 10 or 15 minutes thinking she’d look out and see me, but no such luck.  When we [...]