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HOSPITALIZATION?!!?

Category: trials and tribs | 1 Comment

This is not my news, so I haven’t talked about it yet, but Ben is really sick. He’s in the hospital in Colorado Springs, here is his blog post about it. They still don’t know what’s wrong with him. I wish I could drop everything and fly out there right now, but instead, his parents are heading out …

Grand Marathon Whirlwind Tour of the East Coast

Category: Grad School, i'm moving here, training | Leave a Comment

I spent the bulk of today navigating travel websites and class schedules and department faculty listings, coming up with the most efficient way to visit four schools in four states while still trying to have time for a run or a swim, or, gasp, a spin bike?!

Training …

No, I didn’t break the Prius…

Category: cool stuff, training, trials and tribs | 3 Comments

…it just took me 15 minutes in the Goodwill donation drop-off line, with lots of honking cars behind me, to figure out that you have to depress the brake AND the power button in order to turn the car on and make it go anywhere. It’s obviously not my Prius.