I spent Friday morning unplugged and getting my hands dirty in the garden. In the middle of the city. Though it wasn’t intentional, I wore the perfect shoes for celebrating Obama’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize. Since these moccasins worked so well during my…
Physical Education
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Today: Get ready for some football!
I thought maybe I was a football widow, until inferred from Wikipedia that that was inherently a bad thing. I should probably clarify that no, I did not get married and no, Nick did not get mowed down by an errant pigskin. But yes, I…
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Today: Get beat by the heat
The AC in our office went extinct last week. We were waiting for a replacement part, only to find out the model of the our unit had also gone the way of the dinosaurs. In the meantime, I lost about 10 lbs. of sweat, without…
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Today: Go it alone
According to a Meyers-Briggs personality assessment from late 2002, I am an introvert. And while I’m no hermit, there are some things I like doing alone. And then there are those things I would much prefer to do in the company of a partner-in-crime. Attending…
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Today: Break a leg
Once I had a soccer related emergency and went to the hospital. End of post? In your dreams. The people on either side of me in the ER had, respectively, a broken nose and several missing fingers. The second resulted from a man falling out…
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Today: Have a happy Monday
Mondays get a bad rap. In college, we invented Monday Night Club to kick off the week with a little fun and festivity. In college, I didn’t have adult responsibilities that precluded me from being over-served on a weeknight. In hindsight, those late nights with…
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Today: Fight the frizz.
Hairs are strange. They rarely do what you want them to do, when you want them to do it. I want my hair to go to a meeting. It wants to go to a rave. I want my hair to be sleek and smooth. It…
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Today: Finish 7.5 mile race
Mile 1: I listen to my usual starting line jam, Prince’s “Purple Rain.” It’s long, not too fast and I have no idea what it means, so that can be distracting in a good way. I get lost in pondering the lyrics and lose sight…