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running mileage
this month: 110
2/02: 95.5
1/02: 57.75
12/01: 101
11/01: 65.5
10/01: 77.2
10/13/01: 26.2: the hartford marathon; mission: accomplished
9/01: 169.5
8/01: 181
7/01: 155
6/01: 126
listening to a lot lately:
silence (well, trying)
reading:
a lot of magazines
recently read:
"don't let's go to the dogs tonight" by alexandra fuller
book reviews: where i arbitrarily rate, rave, and rant about books i've recently read, including the one above
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at cdnow
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my feelings about coffees from around the city
current fave: i'm frequenting the bellydeli the most but i still love pick a bagel best
runner up: europa (specifically their cinnanut)
decent:
the coffee pot (at 49 & 9)
oren’s
so-so:
new world
tahl bagels (86 between 1&2)
au bon pain
dean & deluca
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starbucks (regular – I go there only for “specialty” drinks)
timothy’s
pax (and they’re mean)
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9/11: how you can help
basic elements of ice skating quiz
chris bohjalian interview
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missing kids
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pat benatar
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Tuesday, March 26, 2002
2:46 p.m. could it be? could britney and justin really have broken up??? oh, who cares?
also oddly enthralling: playboy pursues enron's women for centerfold spreads. this is right up there with tonya harding vs. paula jones.
Friday, March 22, 2002
04:31 p.m. durp: 'nsync's lance bass is in moscow to get tested for a trip into space. first of all, i find this stunt retarded. second of all, why russia? why not cape canaveral? is this, like, a world peace effort? if so, even worse.
project greenlight's "stolen summer" gets, basically, a pan. i'm not really surprised -- they did, after all, pick the sappiest contender of the lot. plus, when you sign up unknown child actors, they're only bound to sound like they're reading cue cards. i wonder if people will go see it. i guess if you've been watching all along, it's hard not to want to just to finally see it in its entirety. but, given all the drama along the way, i kinda feel it's like sticking around after a train wreck to see the bodies carted out or something. it just looks bad.
so, i've determined that i've seen all of 8 out of the 50 movies up for an oscar. 8. terrible. i'm trying to get together a game of oscar bingo, but i can't find any info about it online, so if anybody knows how to play it, send me a sign. thanks.
Thursday, March 21, 2002
5:52 p.m. i like this article from the williamette week online on the gays and lesbians of the real world -- note the dropping of the excellent phrase "menage a meow" -- except for biased ratings of danny from new orleans and pedro of san francisco. danny, being the cutest boy to grace the RW, as well as fun and sweet, deserves way more than a stupid 7. also, while pedro is much-mourned for his passionate and dedicated personality and activism, if we're talking "'tude" here, he wasn't the easiest housemate to get along with or watch trying to get along with. but the genesis description is straight up (what was she thinking about pursuing that drag queen?).
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
4:00 p.m. So good to hear that we’ve already got a candidate to play osama in a movie made about sept. 11 and all: “Whatever his brother's fate, Sheikh Ahmad said he would like to portray his brother should Hollywood ever make a movie about him.” Hasn’t he got better things to worry about right now? Isn’t there anything else he can tell reporters? Sheesh.
I just want to know who B2K is, and what the hell does their name mean?
All these conspiracy theories floating around the news today: enron’s connection to afghanistan: “might be that Enron and the White House were working closely with the Taliban only weeks before the Sept. 11 attack?” also, it wasn’t osama but wealthy american interests behind the sept. 11 attack, says michael ruppert, a former cop running the lecture circuit these days with a speech, titled “Truth and Lies About September 11.” Great – because that makes me feel so much better.
I personally am more focused on the resurfacing of big al, beardless, and tipper, who said “no, thanks” to a senate bid. Both bits of news are a shame.
I don’t think I’ve ever been less prepared/opinion-ready going into an Oscar show, it’s really bad. But, even speaking generally, I think my movie viewing is really not up to par. Therefore, I’m going to print out this list and start checking flicks off as I see them (I’ve only seen 22 of the 100 so far). Though it probably won’t help much.
I’m feeling very torn emotional about this woman who got a uterus transplant. First of all, I’m feeling kind of offended. I think it’s the combination of it being done in saudi arabia and on a 26-year-old woman. Maybe she insisted on it, but given western doctors’ feelings about it being very sci-fi experimental, it just feels wrong and violating. Also, what’s the deal with getting a uterus from a 46-year-old woman? Wouldn’t the best bet be for a younger uterus, so that it’s more likely to keep on keeping on and less likely to get cancer soon? Already, doctors are saying that such a procedure increases one’s risk of cancer, due to the drugs that you have to take to make it work. On the other hand, while I agree that getting a uterus or having a child is not necessarily a live-saving function (at least in the U.S.), these doctors interviewed for the piece should not be “rolling their eyes.” Just because it’s a difficult procedure doesn’t mean it should never be researched or tried. After all, there’s plenty of research going on regarding male impotence and fertility, so how about some equity here?
Friday, March 15, 2002
5:48 p.m. if you're in nyc and looking for something to do saturday, as an early st. patrick's day celebration, go see the kings county moonshiners at tribeca tavern. they're fun and, at this time of year, like to mix irish jigs in with rowdy rootsy-country-dylan stuff. plus, they remove the "sham" from -- and put the "rock" in -- "shamrock," ya know.
5:13 p.m. this week i'm thinking about school. each time i start to reconsider school, i think i'm so sure that is what i want to do and get all gung-ho-let's-go-enroll-now. so then, a week or two or three later, when i realize i really don't want to go back to school, i get down and start thinking i'm never going to know what i want to do career-wise. then i try to redevote myself to my job. so this week when i started thinking about school, i started with the notion that i would probably give it up, but the more i think about giving it up, the more i think i should go, i have to go. before, it was like thinking about school was an escape from real, now-time working life, a cop-out. but now that i'm thinking about school again, i think not going and not getting another degree and becoming a skilled professional in something would be a cop-out and that living my life as a "writer" as i am currently is stupid and crappy and easy and will forever be unfulfilling because it seems easy and accessible now instead of big and dreamy like before and if i can do that now, i can do it any time and why am i not making the world a better place instead of writing this year's and this magazine's version of the same article you've seen 30 times since birth?
it's all very confusing. it's also frustrating because of course we're past the application due dates so i'll have to wait a whole other year. but maybe that's a good thing, maybe i'll be able to make up my mind and get firm on the issue if i have that much time and forethought to put into it.
but i am starting to feel like i gotta make a move soon or else never. maybe that's unreasonable but, you know, it gets harder as you get older, right?
i think i need to go find a web site that makes me take a quiz and then seriously tells me what kinds of jobs i'd be good at. the problem with those things though is that i can never answer definitively, and then i'll go back and change my answers to what i think i would have answered at any given time other than that one, and then i come out with a totally different batch of careers. which is not helpful at all.
Monday, March 11, 2002
5:55 p.m. this is great: a native american intramural basketball team at the university of colorado dubs themselves "the fighting whities" to raise awareness of stereotypes. [via the obscure store]
10:51 a.m. when i think about it, it's kind of amazing that 6 months have gone by since 9/11. there was a time when i couldn't see 6 months away and where exactly we'd be and what would be going on. or, if i tried to, i only saw more destruction and sadness. and though there are surely people who feel just as bad and maybe worse than they did on 9/11, the rest of us are here, healing. i was going to say "healed," but my own emotional response to the footage i've re-seen and stories i've heard in the past 24 hours shows that i'm not fully healed, i guess. it's strange to be living through a moment in time that people will be writing about for decades to come as a traumatic, scary, uncertain period in history. it has been all of those things but it has been the opposite of those things, too, at times. we are living history, but we're just living our lives.
now, here's something to cheer us all up: a guy who goes around making people balloon hats. i kind of want one.
meanwhile, back in zimbabwe, people are just trying to vote, which can be a little difficult when the government refuses to tell you about polling places, dates, and times, and makes you stand in line for days when you do figure them out. i can only wonder whether, even if the opposition party wins the "election," the true results will come out. if they don't, i'm sure there will be complete chaos. if they do, i'm sure there will be complete chaos. nobody is winning there.
it was nice, though, to spend some time this weekend talking about zimbabwe, despite the hopelessness i feel about the situation. five of us went to mt. snow -- everyone skiied or snowboarded but me (maybe next year?) --and one of us was from south africa (his parents actually met in harare!). he quizzed me about my trip and i quizzed him about his upbringing. then we went back and forth cursing the friggin' zim government. it's so great to be able to talk to people about the country and get updates on the area via real people. it brings me back, makes it real again, and makes me think about returning some day.
Monday, March 4, 2002
12:08 p.m. so, sadly, the hartford marathon, which i ran for my very first 26.2 traverse, might be kaput. apparently, stupid aetna dropped its sponsorship after this year's run and now the organizers are having a hard time finding replacements. that sucks. it IS such a gorgeous race and so quaint and well organized and just friendly, all-around. i'd run it again if i hadn't already secured my nyc marathon spot for november.
for whatever reason, my news reading of this morning contained two articles about the worst injuries/surgeries i can possibly imagine -- really, the two things that can make me cringe more than just about any other form of bodily harm -- the episiotomy and the skiing-induced acl tear. the former is just about enough to make me not want to have kids and the latter has been enough to keep me from skiing since being released from my track & field obligations. but i suffered through both of these articles because, in the end, although they both had me squirming ridiculously in my seat, i felt more knowledgable and thus more protected from them ever happening to me. but the graphic descriptions of "ripping" and "tearing" of certain areas of the female body by an about-to-be-born baby's head just about put me over the edge. how do mothers deal with these things? my god. child-bearers should be worshipped by all.
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