red red wine

Red wine is good for the heart.

3 is even better

Moving

Moving sucks. 

So that is why I had a little Baily's poured into my Starbucks.

WaMu

Kinda funny...I got a credit card offer from Wamu.
Maybe I should have opened it and read the letter.
They could have been asking ME for money.

Races

Trying to run as many races before the weather starts to SUCK!

Oct 5th - http://www.bucktown5k.com/

Oct 25th - https://www.kintera.org/AutoGen/Register/ECReg.asp?ievent=281143&en=aoKAJRNpE3KJKOPlHbIPL3OwHcILINPoFdIOLVPxHnJZF
This one is a special one for my BFFs/running partner! First race since she had her baby!

There's a chance

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/movies/28onst.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

"...the meaning of love that was written by, and stars, Mr. Cera's girlfriend, Charlyne Yi, a comedian who has been compared to Andy Kaufman but is best known as the stoner chick on the couch in "Knocked Up.""

 

 

He is only 20 BUT...HE likes asian chicks!

 

 

LOOK AT SWEEDEN

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23krona.html?em

 

That strategy held banks responsible and turned the government into an owner. When distressed assets were sold, the profits flowed to taxpayers, and the government was able to recoup more money later by selling its shares in the companies as well.

"If I go into a bank," said Bo Lundgren, who was Sweden's deputy minister of finance at the time, "I'd rather get equity so that there is some upside for the taxpayer."

Sweden spent 4 percent of its gross domestic product, or 65 billion kronor, the equivalent of $11.7 billion at the time, or $18.3 billion in today's dollars, to rescue ailing banks. That is slightly less, proportionate to the national economy, than the $700 billion, or roughly 5 percent of gross domestic product, that the Bush administration estimates its own move will cost in the United States.

 

LOOK AT SWEEDEN DAMMIT!

Bob Herbert - I heart you

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

 

"We have trade missions back and forth," said Ms. Palin. "We do. It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to our state."

Suite 452

Lux

THE CAKE CART! I got a slice of the red velvet cake on the right and counted it as a beer.

Apparently, the only way I can watch and pay attention to baseball is from the luxury suite.  This is from Suite 452 at US Cellular Field.  The dessert cart was the bomb.

 

 

Serene

Chicago about 5 miles out on Lake Michigan.

Big mistake

This is bad.  This is really bad.  

I let my DSW $10 reward EXPIRE.

How could I do this to myself?

thoughts and more thoughts

Limp is gone.  Thighs still sore.  Everything A-OK.

I'm out at the tea shop studying for my first pathophysiology test.  Perfect time to process Sunday's experience.

I talked to a few friends and strangers about the race.

Sunday had the same extreme weather conditions as last year's Chicago Marathon.  Although, I will take the rain and 60 degrees over the water-less sauna of last October.  

My running shorts stayed noticeably dry on the part of LSD heading toward Chicago.  After the turn on LSD toward the finish line (but not anywhere near it) I clearly remember when I said, "oh shit, I have water running down my legs.  Oh shit, that is from my ass!"  

To match with my lack of training, I wore a cotton hat from my BF.  Ironically, it is stitched with "Life is Good."  ...ok, at least I was trying to be positive.  You could see water dripping from the hat bill, but no rain over my eyes!  See, cotton is fine..it's can't breath well, but who cares if it's pouring rain!

 I made good but disgusting use of the rain coating my hands.  When I felt kinda parched, I would just wet my whistle with my hand. Forget the chapstick with sunblock.  There wasn't sun to block.  

Another thing that made a difference was the song list in my head.

Superstar - Lupe Fiasco

I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco

Feel Good Inc - Gorrillaz

Lots of The Killers:

All these things that I've Done

Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf

Who Let You Go?  

(Especially:  "Someone must have loved you

Not the way that I do...
You're missing what I'm trying to say
Ain't nothing getting in my way...) 

The Ballad of Michael Valentine

you crazy aussie!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/australia.kayak.ordeal.ap/index.html

De Wit says the 38-year-old man broke two bones in his lower leg wrenching himself free.

Obama

you youtube people have a lot of time. it looks like i have a lot of time since i comment on this shit, and i laugh at the stuff i see..

Go Big Ike!

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-35489920080915

Tina Turner is the artist of choice at the bar, given that she survived another Ike -- her abusive husband Ike Turner.

Matt Damen

Matt speaks. He is more than just Jason Bourne or doing Sarah Silverman. You gave Disney a post-election movie idea. Palin is scary.

Chicago Half Marathon

I finished it.
Slept about 3 hours last night. Just couldn't fall asleep or stay asleep.
No training - the most I ran was between 7 and 8 miles...which was 3 weeks ago.
Old shoes - I ran the Chicago Marathon in them last year
RAIN - it fucking rained the ENTIRE time! Miserable conditions.

But it's over. And I'm so glad I did it. 2:26.

The Dark Night at Imax

Looking forward to seeing the Dark Night again but this time on IMAX.

FAT

Experts blame obesity, with about two-thirds of all Americans overweight. With fatty liver disease becoming more common in adults, many experts predict it will become the top cause of liver transplants by 2020.

His patient, Irving Shaffino, a 15-year-old Mexican-American who lives outside Lubbock, Texas, was lucky to get a transplant a year ago. He was in end-stage cirrhosis and, at 5-feet-4½, weighed 180 pounds.

Irving had been fat since age 6, thanks to a high-starch, high-fat diet of Mexican food, pizza and burgers, said his mother, Guadalupe Shaffino. At age 8, she said, he had a distended stomach and by his early teens, breathing problems kept him tethered to an oxygen tank at home.

Why don't you be a parent and not COOK the fucking "high-starch, high-fat" food?!! I do feel sorry for the kid. It's the parent's fault. Even if it's a socio-economic thing, go do something active. Start that shit early.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/sns-ap-med-fat-children-liver-disease,0,6175660.story

Then there's this shit...the SCFE ("sciffy") which stands for Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis. Basically, part of the hip joint slips out of the acetabululum/ hip socket. It's common with obese children. I've heard of peds ortho surgeons do bilateral SCFE repairs - 1 is to fix the SCFE and the other to prevent an inevitable SCFE. Fuck, lose weight. You don't have to go to the hospital.

Bacon

Checked out this new place in Bucktown called Chinaski's. Splurged on a bottle of white wine...on $10 wine night! Had a great sandwich pack with coleslaw. And by golly, I will be there for the next all-you-can-eat BACON night
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/restaurants-bars/50671/chinaskis

Asian

Check out label from my McDonald's Asian Chicken Salad!

I labeled myself after I ate the last edamame and Mandarin orange.

Hillary v Palin

How pissed do you think Hilary is about Sarah Palin?
Hillary is the feminist choice. She is smart and worked to get where she is.
And here comes Miss Teen Alaska...
Palin is a freakin tool of the Republican party.
Her voice just annoys me. I hate her hair.
OMFG, I'm so catty! Meow.

Season

I still can't believe the summer is officially over. The ivy growing on the building across the court yard is evidence enough that it's almost sock weather! Frack! I love the word frack.

School is in full swing. That's why I don't sleep well. I totally make time for the things I want to do, but I get in these mindsets and all I want to do is get shit done! I have to chill the frack out.