Today is Paddington the Bear's 50th anniversary. I loved Paddington as a kid. Along with Sammy the Seal, the 10 (or was it 12?) Chinese Brothers, Amelia Bedelia, Frog (who) went a courtin', Peanuts, & Garfield ( Read more... )

There's a ton of stuff swimming around in my head. It's got to come out, but there is no real order to it. So, here it goes ( Read more... )

Holy freaking cow!!! I ran 85 miles this month!!

Today is the first time I've ever tallied my mileage for a month. I knew I was running about 21 miles a week, but sheesh...I never really thought about it until now...

Race report ( Read more... )

No, not Christmas, I never got this excited about Christmas. The night before my first half. I haven't run in 3 days and the amount of energy I am stuck with is a whole bunch. I'm stuck in what I call "Super-hyper-speed", and this just means that I have not burnt off nearly enough of my overabundance of energy. Usually a good 3 miler will at ( Read more... )

I totally rock ( Read more... )

With three weeks to go, I finally made it to 13 miles on Thursday. It wasn't pretty (I walked up every hill I came across), but I hit the distance. I needed to do that mentally. Swimming yesterday was a new adventure, thanks to a lot of body aches, although my feet were quite happy to be free of pounding ( Read more... )

Classes started Monday. I have two American, non-foreign accented teachers for both math classes. Can we say amazing? I'm still amazed that it happened that way. I have high hopes for both classes (after all, that's why I cut back to just two classes) but my diff eq teacher scared the crap out of me today when I realized that I don't remember ( Read more... )

Yes, I've been avoiding my LJ. Because I had a rough race on July 27 and didn't take it well. For someone who's actually trained so smart and run smart races, I made a bunch of rookie mistakes that just make me crazy ( Read more... )

This is traditionally my second favorite week of the year, because it means football season is finally starting. This year, after a 19 year absence, I finally got to take part in festivities related to HOF week ( Read more... )