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Archive for November, 2007
Nuffin’
6November 20, 2007
I just want to say, just like Liberty, I’m very excited for Thanksgiving. We have friends coming to run the Turkey Trot, then we’ll be eating, drinking, and lazing around. What’s not to love? No gifts, no decorating, no pressure. Lots of busyness with the shopping and chopping and cooking and baking, but that’s not pressure. That’s just preparation for feasting. Feasting is my favorite.
I’m extra happy to run the sweet, sweet 5 miles of the Turkey Trot after my last pressure-filled race debacle. Running and I have a precarious relationship that was very much in danger of ending during the summer and early fall. It goes against all of my sports needs: I have no chance of winning, there’s no ball, there’s no one to run away from, there’s no goal to run toward (intrinsic goals don’t count for anything), there’s no opponent to mock (because I have no chance of winning). Also, the really, really good runners are thin and lithe, and I have a sturdy body type more suited for sports like softball and beer bonging. Anyway, running and I are hesitant with each other at best, so I’m glad to be experiencing some excitement about the Turkey Trot because I feared that the 1/2 marathon might have taken all of the fun out of it. It didn’t. Yay. Happy Thanksgiving!
New York Times=Very Uncool
3November 15, 2007
Don’t censor people who know what they’re talking about. That’s just wrong. Censoring people who don’t know what they’re talking about? I’m totally cool with that. I know, I know, slippery slopes and such. How about we just start with the assholes like Tama Janowitz and all of her supportive commentors who think it’s cool to tell a 12-year-old daughter who was adopted from China, “Well, you know, if you were still in China you would be working in a factory for 14 hours a day with only limited bathroom breaks!” See, that’s just mean. I’m not a transnational adoptee or anything, but I can still see that that’s all kinds of mean. And people who leave comments that say that that is totally mean should not be censored by the New York Times. I mean, it’s THE New York Times. WTF?
