( Princess backstory part 1 )

One day Kaitlin was puttering around her studio putting the finishing touches on a landscape she was painting. Dragon stuck his head in the door. “Do you have a minute?” he asked. “Sure,” said Kaitlin, “What’s going on?” “Let’s go for a ride, I want to show you something,” he replied.

They soared through the air, Kaitlin securely strapped to ( Read more... )

 
( Dragon story )

Let's see, where am I at? I ran the 12k, managed to run the whole thing, very proud of that. Work is crazy as usual. Trying to balance my existing job against a bunch of new opportunities is really taxing my abilities. At some point I'm going to need to start saying no to someone, because at some point my work is going to start suffering. But only ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of writing for work, none of it really entertaining. In fact I bet there are fewer things drier than writing a journal article in the medical field. In good news I just had a paper accepted and another will hopefully be following shortly, but I am awfully sick of writing things like: given the limitations of our small sample ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to come here, spend some time, take my time. I always enjoy reading everyone's updates but it seems to be just too big of a hill sometimes to actually hit that post button. So here is a quick update to hopefully prompt me to go into more details at a later time. Plenty going on, I've got a 12k in a month, a summer doing a faculty ( Read more... )

Hello LJ world, time for another random drive-by post. Not much going on in the land of the frozen north. After getting 28 inches of snow a week ago it's been raining pretty much non-stop. This equals really bleak weather. The rain has reduced the snow pack quite a bit and I have seen about a square foot of green grass sprinkled about, but still ( Read more... )

I always feel as if I'm really boring when I decide to do updates. But if I waited for something exciting I'd probably never post. So here's what's going on in my life. The running training continues, I've upped my time successfully each week for the past 4 weeks. Only 10 weeks left until I'll see if it actually paid off. In slightly more ( Read more... )

I overdid it indeed. This weekend I took a yoga class (1st time in years), did my running and played some racquetball with my husband (1st time ever). As a result my hip and gluts are not very happy with me. I'd really like to make a higher level of activity normal for us. So for now that means keeping running, doing this yoga class twice a week ( Read more... )

Well having a personal goal seems to be helping. I've run regularly the last 2 weeks, upping my time slowly. I've also been eating a lot better, lots of raw fruits and veg, cut way down on my fat and sodium. So as a result I've also lost a little weight. Planning the trip and all the things that go along with it has really kept me motivated. As a ( Read more... )