I smashed my PRs this morning! 26:46 for a 5K and 55:42 for a 10K! Go forth and laugh. I have been informed that a sub 55 minute 10 K is necessary for a sub 2 hour half marathon. Now have to go find something to blame those extra 42 seconds on. Can't blame the traffic lights, found out that at this accelerated tempo all traffic lights on my way ( Read more... )

I don't read much anymore, but when I read, I read 1400 pages of ultraviolent YA lit so I can complain about it *headdesk*

The series in question is The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. According to the cover blurbs, Stephen King couldn't stop reading. And Stephenie Meyer thinks it's amazing. Well, tough shit, Stephen, Stephenie, latin_doll thinks ( Read more... )

I realised I abandoned The Death of Bunny Munro about 50 pages before the end. Must pick up again, or what else would have been the point of working through all my protagonist-related hatred? Hope the title isn't false advertising.

I also finally got around to starting Unseen Academicals because Discworld soccer didn't seem so intriguing to me ( Read more... )

I AM ASKING YOU ALL.

Should I do another 1) half marathon in October? 2) A 10K road race?* 3) sit on the couch?

The half would mean I'd have to get off the couch first so there will be no episodes of the kind where latin_doll falls over into a gutter half-way or takes a leisurely stroll over the finishing line. I'm moderately out of half marathon shape ( ( Read more... )

What I did on the weekend ( Read more... )

Ok, as people on the flist know this week started off pretty successfully after last week already ended quite as successfully, only somewhere in the process of getting a little tipsy for celebratory reasons I - alternating running around in cold weather and having different drinks in different bars - must have caught some bug or other, and now I'm ( Read more... )

Squeeee.

That is all.

Ich war mal wieder auf einer Max-Goldt-Lesung und wahrscheinlich zum letzten Mal. Diesmal fiel selbst meiner liebenswürdigen Begleitung auf, dass der Anteil der in nicht besonders menschenfreundlicher Weise Frauen targierenden* Texte** doch recht hoch war, das musste ich nicht mal ganz allein analysieren, und sonst muss ich sowas immer allein ( Read more... )

Am currently reading "The girl with the dragon tattoo" by Stieg Larsson no I don't have anything better to do.Is it the worst fucking book I've ever read? I don't know, but it's right up there with the first thirty pages of "Illuminati" XD I kinda liked the movie ("Verblendung" resp. "Men who hate women") despite its somewhat sensationalist ( Read more... )

So, heute habe ich kein Köfferchen gepackt und morgen fahre ich im Rahmen eines entspannenden Kurzurlaubs seien wir ehrlich, natürlich nehme ich meinen Laptop mit, äh, nach Hamburg.

Zu Nick Cave. Der macht nämlich das hier. (Das entsprechende Buch wurde mir übrigens unlängst geschenkt und ich hab das Gefühl, ich sollte das noch fix lesen, falls ( Read more... )