July 2006

and miles to go before i sleep

I know y’all totally don’t care, but I still have to post my marathon training progress. Yesterday I drove over to the gym* to do my 4.5 mile long run (the long runs occur on the weekends, and we’re upping them by 1/2 mile every weekend until the race). I didn’t realize that the gym opened at 11 on Sundays, and it was only 10 a.m. I didn’t want to wait around for an hour and I really didn’t have anything to do in the meantime, so … (yes, you guessed it)… I went running outside instead. In this motherfucking SNAKES ON A PLANE heat. Not having eaten breakfast. From my office to the start of the Katy Trail (not named after me, thanks for asking, but it is well marked and flat and wide (somewhat like me)) is 1.5 miles of partial shade, and from there I hopped on the trail and went an additional 3/4 mile before turning around and starting back. Up to that point I’d been feeling pretty good, but shortly after the turnaround I had to stop and walk for a little while. Then about 2/3 of the way back I had to stop and sit down in the shade for a bit, then I walked most of the rest of the way. I think that getting cold chills on a 90 degree day is a sign that you’ve overheated yourself. “I am gonna be SNAKES ON A PLANE if I don’t just walk from here,” I thought, and actually took my own advice. You’d think I would have learned my lesson after the last couple of times I decided I could handle running outdoors in Texas in the hottest part of summer. But noooooooo. Give me a few weeks to recover, and some part […]

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sushi samurai!

Make your California rolls, your sashimi and temaki! Collect the pickled ginger for extra points! Load up on your arsenal of foe-freezing wasabi! But watch out for the evil Tofu, Radish, Mushroom, and Blowfish… the only way to defeat them is to sandwich them into your sushi! Thanks to Doc for this awesome link!!

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mile(age)stone

MILESTONE!! I ran 4.2 miles tonight. That is the farthest I’ve ever run without stopping. 44 minutes, so that translates to… let’s see… about a 10:30 mile. I’m very pleased with that; my goal is not necessarily to run quickly or to decrease my time per mile, but to increase my endurance, even if I’m doing 15 minute miles or whatever. If I can complete the half marathon in under 3 hours, I’ll be very happy. I sprinted the last lap and a half to catch up with Brittney, and after slowing to a walk it felt like I was starting to have an asthma attack. It subsided after a few minutes of wheezing. Which reminds me, I should make a doctor’s appointment so she can reassure me that my body will be able to stand up to this crazy training schedule. I was supposed to do 4 miles on Saturday (my long run day) but only did 1.5, on the treadmill. Sunday I did an additional 1 mile on the treadmill, then went outside and ran another 1.5. I don’t think that really counts, even though it adds up to 4. I felt really awful about myself all weekend as a result. On the treadmill I have been running a 12 minute mile. I don’t know how I will ultimately feel about the treadmill. Right now we have a love-hate relationship. (I hate that I don’t love it.) The most I’ve been able to run on it is 1.5 miles. It feels much more difficult than when I run on regular non-moving ground. I seem to get hotter and sweatier, and I’m really unhappy and my muscles hurt and I tire out quickly and I’m always looking at the mileage gauge. Maybe it’s that I know I can step […]

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clerks II

Clerks II managed to be both a 2-hour-long dick joke, and suprisingly sweet and sentimental at the same time. Highlights: Cameo by Jason Lee (playing neither Brodie nor Banky) Cameo by Ben Affleck (thankfully short, although I have to admit I did like him as Bartleby in Dogma) Cameo by the absolutely adorable Ethan Supplee Randal’s “You’re going to make me do this, aren’t you?” speech while he and Dante sit in jail The whole “ass to mouth” thing The Lord of the Rings debate with the gay hobbit references at the end Jason Mewes’ sorta-full-frontal nude scene. Disturbing. Jay’s line about turning his life around and maybe becoming an astronaut: “I could discover a new alien life form! And fuck it.” “I assure you, we’re re-open!” And my personal highlight: The look of pure unrequited love that Dante gave Becky as she danced for him on the roof of Mooby’s. That intense stare where you can tell he’s just DYING to declare his feelings. Dear god, I nearly melted into my seat. Hats off to Brian O’Halloran for brilliant acting. And despite all the jokes throughout the film about Dante’s looks (he called himself fugly!), I can’t help but admit that Brian O’Halloran is totally hot. He just is. Always has been.

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fun with playlists

An anonymous comment was left on this post: Let’s see you nailed the top 10 for me. Almost. ‘In your eyes’ by guess who. ‘New Year’s Day’ by guess again. ‘Headhunter’ and ‘Diamonds on the soles of her shoes’ by people not on your list. How cool is that, that I got someone’s top ten! (Almost.) I like your taste in music, Anonymous. I’ve started making playlists that correspond to specific people or time periods in my life. Sometimes that’s easy, sometimes it’s not so easy. I find it really interesting that something as esoteric as a specific set of songs can evoke memories, when the individual songs by themselves don’t necessarily do that. I want to post my “Songs That Remind Me Of Doc” playlist, but it’s 43 songs long so far and I’m not done. Y’all’d get sick of reading my playlists if I started to do that. You probably already are. Damn. I can’t resist. I’ll just list the top ten from that playlist: Sanctum Sanctorum (The Damned), God’s Comic (Elvis Costell0), Alone Again Or (The Damned), The Carnival Is Over (Dead Can Dance), Strength of Strings (This Mortal Coil), Jane Says (Jane’s Addiction), Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie), Somebody (Depeche Mode), The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen), and Appetite (Prefab Sprout).

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old dreams part 1

I recently found some old notebooks in which I’d written down dreams that I’d had. Here’s an interesting one. August 24, 1992. I was walking around a small square-shaped park on a track of some sort with Patrick Stewart dressed in his Star Trek uniform. We were building a model log cabin as we went, and so were a number of other people on the track. Some people were lying on the grass in the center of the park. All of a sudden, Patrick Stewart leaned over and gave me an absolutely mad passionate kiss. I was taken aback and thought My god! He’s so old and I’m only 19! But then I thought, oh to hell with it, because I was enjoying it too much to worry. Then he pulled away and said “Damn. Grass fire.” in that deep sexy British voice. There was smoke coming from the grass up a ways, so he went ahead to check it out while I stayed behind. Some of the people on the grass had set their log cabins on fire and it had caught the grass. The the dream shifted. I was in some sort of hospital/space center, in a little room with two chairs that you could be strapped into and I suppose experience what it was like to be in space. People had just left so I walked up and said that I wanted to try it. I sat in a chair and a woman told me that I had to take off my aquasocks. Then they listened to my heart and did some other medical-type things. A doctor held up an instrument that looked like a tiny squatty pair of scissors with really short pointy blades. He put the pointy end in my mouth and touched the blades […]

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