Last night was the first night that I've slept all the way through the night, since I returned from Europe land. (and lord knows I wasn't sleeping regularly over there, if only for the scandanavian sunlight and the drat time zone differences ( Read more... )

It's so nice to be exercising again. Being able to run gives me confidence... "maybe I will goalkeep again". "Maybe I will come back to my teams, and I won't be as far behind the eight-ball as first thought". "Maybe I will have some resemblence of fitness to help with being a role model for my kids in Ghana". "Maybe I'll buy a bike some day ( Read more... )

For reasons which I will explain tomorrow night, I need to write this post tonight ( Read more... )

That's not even a metaphor. I'm not kidding ( Read more... )

I've always loved October. As a kid growing up in the country, there was something very special about mornings in October. On the morning walk to the school bus, you would see icy shards of grass giving way to daffodils, new shoots of bracken that were fragrant and green, tiny skunks and lizards to be found in numbers if you looked hard enough on ( Read more... )

"Gentlemen, we've got four questions to answer and not a lot of time. First: What happened? Second: What do we do about it? Third: What are the Russians going to think about all this? And fourth: What are they going to do about it?"

- Secretary Swenson, "Fail Safe" (written and directed by Sidney Lumet, 1967)

---SO. I've been AWOL now for what.. ( Read more... )

#1 ( Read more... )

A freighter ship is somewhere between a hotel, and a spaceship. It's no wonder they call them a "space SHIP ( Read more... )

I've borrowed the idea for this post from my beautiful friend Katie, (who I know about one-tenth as well as I would like to, yet already think that she has one of the biggest hearts that I know). She, in turn, adopted it from a friend of hers, called Pip. Here's my take on this, right now ( Read more... )

trowing a paper plane + yelling 'Hadouken!' + watching it fly brilliantly and hit Therese + having her donk her knee whilst trying to get out of the way + watching her try and stop herself from bursting out laughing whilst on a call = made my day :)

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