Just about to close up my training log before the AIDS/LifeCycle begins.  These 30 mile rides (even though today had 1,500 feet of elevation gain) make me feel lazy.  Two more good days for some easy spinning, then Thursday I get off the bike for a tune up and a dye job--not from the same place, of course.  Friday, it's all aboard Amtrak and the ( Read more... )

You ever have one of those days where just everything seems to go wrong?  You take wrong turns into traffic, you drop your cell phone, you can't manage to get from point A to point B in time for the next appointment and everyone, simply everyone in the world is crawling right up under your backside?  People talk to you in perfectly constructed ( Read more... )

It's the end of the semester, friends. That means I'm buried under piles of papers and exams. It also means that the season of paranoia is stalking me. Although, can you call it paranoia when yes, actually, the students DO all hate you at the moment? So, with my knickers in this kind of a twist I find it more helpful to keep my head down, my ( Read more... )

Tonight I sit here, my friends, facing my mother's keyboard and knowing I have a fundraising letter to write.  I haven't wanted to write it, and I know why, it's going to sting a little.  See, I'm not joining the AIDS/LifeCycle for the health benefits, the pathological weight management issues or even to raise money for those suffering from this ( Read more... )