Last week was tough: I had 5 productive days in a row, taking my shiny streak to 7, but I whined whined whined the whole way through. My Friday plans fell through when we couldn't get confirmation that there'd be a hardpoint at that night's party. Instead, I had an unusually frank conversation with my mum about my love life and then had dinner with ( Read more... )

Hurricane Sandy has really messed up my sense of what day of the week it is, which was already endangered by being unemployed. Monday was always scheduled as a recovery day from the marathon. Tuesday was a particularly pleasant weekend day, as I played Monopoly, ate chicken, and watched Chopped with my Manhattan siblings. Weds was spent in the car ( Read more... )

The other problem with Humpday polls is that Wednesdays are now my most consistently busy day of the week, as they are the day of the week when I have a honking annoying appointment tearing up my day. I woke up this morning with the big scary thing of the week over and the big logistical nightmares all solved, thinking today would be the day when I ( Read more... )

Friday was almost a 5 Thing day: I Oly-lifted for the first time in over a year; I went to work; and I had two separate primping appointments, one of which included a 2.3mi walk. Eep. My numbers for squats/bench/deadlift aren't bad, but I was still too sore to reach things on the ground on Monday. oops. Kristen gave me the same haircut as usual: it ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel bad about being so fatalistic about scheduling but then a plan gets thoroughly doominated despite heroic efforts. Drama caused 3 of the original 5 non-me organizers to drop out, most of the other attendees couldn't make it, and then the one who was supposed to bring his peeps was grounded by his mistress, so we were down 3 + 2 part ( Read more... )

Got home from dinner last night to a call from my sister, who sounded exhausted. It didn't take much convincing to talk her into running tmw morning, instead of 6 hours after the call ( Read more... )

I have two posts totally written in my head that I don't have time/energy to write out (despite missing my run this morning bc I overslept an hour to get 8 hours sleep). Instead, I'm going to mock the fellow who says in the second paragraph of his dating profile that he finished the bar exam in half the allotted time. I like guys who show off ( Read more... )

I'm not sure it says good things about me that the best match OkCupid could find for me (who has filled out his profile) lives in his mom's basement in Brooklyn ( Read more... )

On the plus side, at least I know it's all displaced anxiety, and the trick is to look it straight in the eye and face it down, rather than letting it interfere with everything else.

Edit: And then it got fargin' cancelled! Again! I would totally have watched more Heroes and had a drink last night if I'd known!!!!!! Razza fraggin ( Read more... )

The rest of the weekend was pretty awesome as well. Completely providentially, our host took us to Five Guys for dinner, which was perfect after I'd spent most of our drive telling Buzz Lightyear about it. I've decided the fries are what make Five Guys so yum - they're nice and salty and there's a higher proportion of crispy ones. I think I like ( Read more... )