It is hard to be smug when you're melting

I had all kinds of plans for tonight, revolving mostly around clothing (acquiring, washing, putting away). Nearly none of them have been accomplished, although I did get some new running shoes. That was my productive act of the day - I came home and took a 2 hour nap afterward. You know, being outside in the heat tuckers a girl out. And I ate my last green freezie yesterday :(

Anyways, the new kicks are New Balance. As I was walking home I could hear an announcer voice in my head, like at the end of Batman - "Is this the end for the Nikes? Will Emily like her new shoes when she takes them out for a spin? How will she use her Nike+ now? Dun dun dun!!!" (a - who knows? And then I thought of how many pairs I have, and how much money I spent on them, and that made me sad, so I stopped. b- TBD. Going for a run was one of the plans that bit it tonight. I've got to head to the gym to test them on a treadmill [so I can exchange them if need be] and just don't want to. How's that for a reversal, eh? c - I've got to get a foot pod pocket. I forgot. Easily remedied!)

I've got a folder in my email called "blog stuffs." I went rooting about there this evening, and realized that most of the stuff is pretty dated by now, but I can still share Smugopedia with you! It is amusing, even though there aren't many entries (I like this one).

The importance of precise search terms

So, I'm streaming radio at the moment, and a really good cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," by a band of which I had no previous knowledge, is playing. The band's name, however, posed a bit of a conundrum when I decided to learn a bit more about them... happily the (first page Google) search results for "Starfucker band" didn't uncover anything especially untoward.

Comments on online news articles are often ridiculous

On these gay penguins, as pointed out by my friend K:


Ca$hMoney wrote: Lets see these gay penguins try and naturally feed this baby

The joker replied: Given that penguins feed their young regurgitated fish, I think you've just supported the gay childrearing argument.

Whee!

So, tonight I went outside for a run by myself, like a big girl. Now, if you haven't heard me say it before, I will say it again: I really like running outside, but am bad at it, so I need someone else with me to make sure there is, you know, running. So when I'm running alone I usually go to the gym, coz it is way easier to run on the treadmill than it is to run for real. Except it is SO nice out today that I couldn't bear it, so I sucked it up and went for a run by myself along the canal.

And it was awesome. And I paced myself. And my pace was what it would have been at the gym.
And then Paula Radcliffe came on my iPod to tell me I recorded a new Personal Best for the mile! I love you, Nike+, and nice cool evenings that are perfect for running. Hooray! I'm all proud of myself.

For your amusement: morning idiocy

So, like many people, in high school I had braces. I still wear my retainers (they're thin clear plastic ones) to sleep most nights. So my tooth brushing routine involves retainers (floss, brush teeth, stick 'em in OR remove, brush teeth, clean retainers) about 98% of the time.

A couple of weeks ago I forgot to wear my retainers to bed. No biggie. Except in my early a.m. fog, I managed to perform most of my EVENING routine before leaving the house.

Which meant that as I was walking down Wellington the following occurred.
1 - Contemplate day ahead.
2 - Run tongue over teeth.
3 - Get extremely confused.
4 - Realize I'm wearing retainers.
5 - Curse myself for being an idiot.
6 - Remove said retainers from mouth.
7 - Proceed to work.

At least I caught it before I tried talking to anyone.

etc

So, I have a tendency to email myself things - reminders, documents, etc. And then I log into my email a while later and think "ooh, email! Fun! What is?" and it is just myself.
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I had a very concrete reminder of how easy it is to give advice, and how tough it is to follow it. Even when it is your OWN advice - you know, exactly the thing you'd say to someone else in your own situation. See, the thing is, when I get the advice I usually give, I'm annoyed at myself ("I should have known that!") AND I've got to take the advice.
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I think it is awesome that Michaelle Jean ate the seal heart.
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There's been a lot of introspection lately. One of the things I really admire about Matt (The Renegade Librarian!) is his ability to reflect on himself, and be so open about it, and what he's struggling with. That's hard for me, but I think only all the more important for it. I was having a mild freak out this morning thinking about all the things in my life that are "out of control" - and then I realized that they're not out of control, they're just in flux. Repeat after me: change is not necessarily bad. Things will settle down. Eventually I will have a routine again. *deep breath*
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Exciting plans for the upcoming week! Hopefully this will include posting more ;)

*sigh* Slate does NOT like WolframAlpha as much as I do. Then again, I was just playing with it. I stand by my assertion that it is fun, though.

The weather today was amazing. And then I met an old friend from dinner, and had a HUGELY nostalgic couple of hours, being in the SFUO and Arts offices, seeing people I know, people I was student-politics-y with. When one of the current Arts VPs was like "wait, what year were you? I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!" I had a brief "it wasn't my fault!" moment - but then it turned out he needed some institutional memory-type info, and I could actually help. Hurray! The only way it could have gotten better was if we'd gone to the English office, but no one would have been there, so it is cool. It is funny - student politics and debate had, and continue to have, such strong influences in my life. It makes me glad I was such a joiner in my undergrad.

This weekend is going to be a SUPER busy one... Ultimate starts tomorrow (we were smart and got cleats at Play it Again Sports, so I am all set!), the Great Glebe Garage Sale is on Saturday, so that's the morning, there will be shenanigans in the afternoon, and then the Race Weekend 5k in the evening! And then a patio, fo' sho'! I'm really looking forward to it all. Especially if the weather is as awesome this weekend as it was today. I don't know about you, but being outside today after work in my sandals and t-shirt (and, um, jeans...) with the warm wind on my face and in my hair, I just wanted to freeze time and have the weather stay that way forever.