So, recently, a friend and mentor invoked the concept of the "Five Year Plan" to me, a phrase which has the peculiar effect of putting me in twitches. After having a few hours of Classic Freak Out, I decided to rework the concept and write down all the things I have accomplished in the last five years to give me an idea of how far I've come*. I ( Read more... )

These stories are hilarious.

They are about running! I think I've logged about 10 miles this week, which me being me, is kind of crazy.

While I was at the gym yesterday, I was flipping through channels to find something to watch, and playing on SciFi there was some sort of 'dinosaurs come back' movie, but not Jurassic Park. People were running from a T-Rex off screen behind them and the CC says,

Tyrannical stomping and rumbling.I don't know why, but I laughed my ass off, and ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to the gym for an inordinately long amount of time. When I was done, I stretched into sort of a half-backbend against the wall and went I came up, it felt like I had taken a hit of NO2. I was strange and awesome at the same time. It was certainly worth killing myself ( Read more... )

I have a quirk where I don't like to not finish books, even if I don't particularly enjoy them. I simply have to know how the story ends. I've only been able to talk myself out of this peculiarity twice before, and only when I thought by continuing I might actually die of boredom. As it stands, I've only read a handful of books I haven't liked ( Read more... )

Hey, I just went running outside, for the first time ever since I started running. I do not count my grade school Turkey Run because I hated and resented every mandatory step.

But this was different! I have a theory (probably not original, but I don't know where I got it) that the very first time you do something new, it is INTIMIDATING, but the ( Read more... )