Run times

5K/3.1 miles

• 23:19 (official race time)
  • 7:30 mile

4.61 miles

• ~43:00
  • ~9:30 mile (post rest day)
• ~40:00
  • ~8:41 mile (post rest day)

 
Today I saw two morbidly obese men driving down the street in a red van. The markings in the van indicated that they were running some sort of transport service for the disabled. Both men were shouting "MOTHERFUCKER!" out the window.

The Facts:

1) Between the times of 3:45 PM and 4:22 PM, I was taking an afternoon nap.

2) During said nap, I dreamt of food.

3) I was awakened by a sharp pain on the inside of my lower lip.

Conclusion:

I bit myself in my sleep.

Conclusion Restated and Rephrased, for Effect:

I FUCKING BIT MYSELF IN MY SLEEP.

To recap: Last summer I worked for a landscape management company. This meant that I spent 8 hours a day outside, digging holes, planting trees, and engaging in other mindless physical labor. As a break from school and a summer job, I enjoyed it immensely; I made money while getting a tan and a workout. As this summer drew closer, I made it my goal ( Read more... )

By Scott Gordon, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Sean O'Neal, Tasha Robinson, Kyle Ryan
April 23rd, 2007

1. "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice ( Read more... )

I'm close to finished with a book I'm reading for class, entitled, "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons". Two authors present the cases for and against the proliferation of nukes (i.e. - should the US "allow" or encourage states like India, Pakistan, or N. Korea to develop nuclear weapons ( Read more... )

So dig this. Mo Rocca came to speak at UF. Instead of studying for my Japanese test, I decided to go see what he had to say ( Read more... )

You may want to look up the phrase "McGuffin/MacGuffin" before/during/after reading this.

( McGuffin )

Here's the final draft of ( Poor Franklin )

Assignment: write one page of a story. It can be a story that's one page long or the first page, last page, or a page cut from the middle of, a story.

so here it is. i'd call it a rough draft, but i'm not sure its that sophisticated yet.

( Poor Franklin )