Somehow I started searching for people I know and ended up at this alumni site, Not Classmates. At least it's free and can get info unlike Classmates so I added my info even though I don't keep in touch w/ anyone from high school and never really did, well okay except rr which is so silly to think we even went to high school together but yep it's true and we're still freaking roommates no less! Found out this kid Aaron Miller was killed in a car wreck and his best friend was driving and under the influence of drugs or something. I didn't really know him, there were 700 people in my class, but I did recognize his picture.

It all started when I was searching for other people, including this guy Bernie that I had a thing with when I was 15 and he was 22. I found a picture of this guy at Microsoft that kinda looks like him but since I haven't seen him since he was 22 and now he's like 40 who knows for sure but seeing his picture did give me the creeps. I think it could be him but I'm reluctant to link to it because if it's not him I don't want to associate him w/ attempting to steal a 15 year old's virginity at 22 and his best friend was like 14. But he was hot and this guy at Microsoft looks kinda hot too so maybe...

There's also a picture online of my high school/college boy Ian from his law firm website but he looks so bald poor thing. He used to be so cute and had plenty of hair. I'll spare him too, for now at least.

since I haven't posted in a bit and there's so much to say who knows where to start. I should just go to bed since it's after 1am and I want to have a productive day since I've had so few lately. 'An American Werewolf in Paris' is on and I can't help but watch though it's 10 years old and I've seen it enough already.

Well that midterm I mentioned last week, well I bombed it! Now I'm almost forced to study for the final. I say forced because knowing me I still may not and just see what happens. This weekend I have to finish my lab assignment for Monday and the grant I have to write, well the deadline for the outline past already and the writing sample is due Monday and I've done nothing so far. Need to work on that this weekend too. My lovely little lab partner is in email communication w/ me to keep in touch w/ our answers on the lab assignment to make sure we know what we're doing.

I also have an Aug 24th deadline to present my AALAS presentation to my group. The conference isn't until late October but since I'll be on vacation the last 2 weeks of Sep. I need to present it early so I have time to make changes. Haven't worked on that yet either. Running out of time and since I'm only in the office once a week it's not like I can spend time at work on it. This weekend I'm on backup and the following two weekends I'm primary so I'll be working all day Sat. and Sun. so probably won't get much done those weekends.

The big TdeF time trial is tomorrow morning. I'm very excited for it since it'll probably determine who wins. I would like to see Discovery win and it looks good since we have first and third right now but it all comes down to tomorrow. I planned on getting up at 8am to watch but coverage goes to 11:30a and my roommates invited me to Simpsons early so it's only $6 and that's at 11:45a so I can't see the end of the Tour if I go to the movie, unless they saved me a seat and I ran real quick over there, since I only live minutes from the Commons movie theater.

Another dog walked into a biker today, Sandy Casar, but he managed to win the stage anyway. I've been looking for online video of this crash but haven't found any yet.

I did two 5 mile races last week. I hadn't done a race since my last marathon in October. The only reason I did the first one was because track got canceled for the race so I didn't want to miss a good workout so I signed up w/ my brf (best running friend) Tara. It was her first 5 mile race ever. We ended up staying together the whole time and staying steady at a nine minute/mile pace which is what we set out to do. No PR for me, I think mine is sub 8 minute pace but soon I hope to be back there. That race was a week ago Thursday and then I went home to Syracuse area on Friday and did another 5 mile race w/ my mom and Dedra on Saturday. Since I had only one day in between races, this race was in the morning versus Thursday's was at night and I didn't eat before the morning one, it was hotter that morning and the early, hot course was also rolling, I didn't do as well but I still managed a 3rd in my AG which is totally silly but oh well I'll take it.

Also got to hang out with Aunt Margaret and Grandma on Saturday which was the main reason to go home. It was a lot of work to take them out, Aunt Margaret can't walk and needs a wheelchair to get around and then you have to lift her literally almost dead weight :0) into the car and Grandma has Alzheimer's and doesn't always remember what the hell is going on. It's like hanging w/ some 2 year olds. Grandma has Aunt M's cat since Aunt M is in a rehab place though Grandma insists it's not Aunt M's cat and that the cat came into her apt. when she opened the door. We brought the cat to see Aunt M in the rehab place and I was hoping Grandma would keep her mouth shut but she had to tell Aunt M that that wasn't her cat. Luckily Aunt M can't hear that well and I don't think she really got what Grandma was saying. Anyway at least she got to see her cat and it seems Grandma has taken a tremendous liking to Peaches AKA Peachy-Boy. My mom commented that he had 2 moms and Grandma quickly chimed in saying No he only had one mother and that was her! Another funny thing Gram did was while eating Wendy's in the car, we couldn't take them into a restaurant because it'd be too difficult so we just got drive-through and drove around while we ate, she dropped the lettuce and tomato out of her burger onto the floor and long after she was done she noticed it on the floor and said someone must have left it in there from before and I told her that she had dropped it out of her sandwich and she said she didn't have tomato in her's and I said that's because she had dropped it. Poor Gram!

I also got to see my dad when I went home. We went to a little get together at his friends' place and I had lobster! Yummy, yummy!!!

My trip to France is coming together. I have my plane ticket from Boston to Paris. I have my rail tickets to meet my mom in the South of France as well as to get back to Paris and I have my hotel while I'm in Paris w/ Jen and James and my hotel for when I'm staying alone the last night before coming back to Boston. Now I just need to plan what I want to do there.

There's probably more but it's getting late.