Joamil emailed me back to say

You're all set
I dropped them off
You are accepted

So can I say it's official?

I've already had lots of offers to help move, Thanks!

Wanna buy me something or donate something to my new pad?? My first place all to myself! There are lots of things I don't have because I just used my roomies. Erin already offered to contribute dishes.

Plus I had a really great track workout tonight. I ran from home to track, it was soooo cold out but it's a good 1.5 miles or so and then I ran another about 1.5 miles when I got to track so I did a good 3 miles warmup. Then our workout was

3 X (1000m 8k pace, 200m easy, 800m marathon pace, 3 min. rest, 400m easy)

So I ran the 1000m at about 7:20 min/mile pace which was 55 sec/200m and my 800m pace I did slower at about 8:10 min/mile pace which was ~61 sec/200m. No, I don't plan on running my marathon at 8:10 pace but it's really hard to run slower than that on the track. Then I did another 5 min. warmdown on the track and then ran home so a total of 2 miles warmdown. So total I did 9.5 miles. Yay!

So listen to The Sundays 'Cry' while you read. This is my song for today. I have loved them ever since I first heard 'Here's Where the Story Ends' in high school. Basically love every song they've ever done and have such a thing for Harriet that ever since high school I've also said that if I ever have a daughter I'm naming her Harriet. I think maybe only 2 people knew that until now and I'm sticking to it so please don't scoop my name now that I've told you, though most people think it's a shitty name anyway, so good, I want it! Check out some of their other videos too.

Video again is gone! I give up.

Yesterday I saw three apts. The first one I already talked about in the sketchy part of South End. I wasn't taking that one. Then I went to see the one on Beacon St. right near the State House and Boston Common, perfect location!, in a high-rise w/ 24 hr concierge so obviously has elevator, too many flights to walk, laundry on every floor, common roof-deck. It's a studio so not huge but a nice space w/ no separate kitchen but fine for me. I was concerned about the dorm-sized fridge but there are too many other things right w/ it. Only a shower no tub and just one closet, one window. I think the positives outweighed the negatives but I had one more place to see.

Made my way back to a less sketchy part of the South End to see another studio w/ a loft above to sleep in. It had a ladder going up to the loft and fit a twin mattress. Kinda like sleeping in a coffin I thought plus there's no way Cleo could get up the ladder to sleep w/ me. That was definitely not happening! Got lots of advice from people and the Beacon St. place seemed like the one. Emailed the realtor and asked for application. He sent it last night and we arranged to meet today.

Went today w/ my application and credit card checks to meet my lovely realtor boy Joamil and see about getting my Beacon St. apartment, it was very easy. Just read and signed the lease, handed over the checks and he said he'd get the lease to the landlord to sign and then get the lease and keys to me for a March 15th move in date. Joamil is kinda funny, not the typical realtor, more just the young kid trying to make some money and make life easy for everyone, including himself of course. He said he wasn't going to do the credit check or call my landlord, 'You're a postdoc,' he said to me, like that meant he had no reason to. The only sketchy thing he did that kinda bothered me was write on the lease that I have a small dog even though I said she's more medium-sized. I don't think it'll be an issue but you never know, especially if she gets in trouble for howling and they want a reason to kick me out or something. It's a big, impersonal building for the most part, though I guess I'll get to know the concierges, so I like that because hopefully people mind their own business and are less likely to complain about stuff, like howling, and less likely to even hear it if she does. So now I'm just waiting to get the lease and keys, so it's not official yet but close. Hope it works out!

Heather,
Someone is calling with extra special good news today. There is a new club opening up, they have joined a gym, or they just want to gossip. Either way, you are going to enjoy some unexpected company or good news from far away. People will seem energetic and talkative today.

My day has turned very bad. I went to see an apt. I was hoping it would be great but it wasn't. Plus right before I left to see it my boss caught me and said I need to arrange a meeting w/ him to go over the paper I'm writing, which I just thought was due March 8th w/out another meeting, so I don't have much written and don't want to have a meeting. So the apt. was in the South End but a little off of the best parts of South End, close to BU Medical Center past Mass. Ave. and Washington so I was a little sketchy about the area like at night and all. Plus the building isn't the best from the outside but a brownstone so okay. The main doors stick and were heavy, bulky and right when you enter it smells like cigarette smoke, yuck! The apt. itself was okay, high ceilings, exposed bright, 1 bedroom, tub needed a cleaning so I think because I'm not sure of the area though I could easily take the bus to work down Mass Ave. and the cigarette smell, not that my apt. smelled but I don't want to come home to that, I don't know if I could live there. It was $1200 plus I'd have to pay electric, all the heat/hot water, etc. was electric, and then cable and internet. Not sure if it's worth it. Now I have to look at a studio in Beacon Hill that's a good location and cheaper but it could be a dud too. Also I have to call my landlord and tell her what I'm doing, if I'm leaving or looking for a roommate. I think if the place I look at tonight isn't good I will post something for a roommate but tell the landlord that she can look for people too and if she finds someone before me then I'll move out for sure. Other options I guess are to give up on it all. Embrace my loserness. I guess I don't handle crap well. I shut down.

If only I had a rr to tell me what to do.

Just found out my roomies found an apt. I'm still looking. Have two places to look at today and hope the first place is the one this time. I don't think the second place is worth it so I'm really counting on the first.

This was us when we were getting along.

Maybe someday I'll do a 'my life w/ rr' post but it would take lots of time and energy. I can try though.

so the kinda short version that some of you know, i met rr in 8th grade. i moved into his neighborhood and liked him instantly when we met. we didn't go to the same middle school but we did go to the same high school. we had a little silly relationship in 9th grade, a little more serious thing maybe the summer before 10th grade, then we dated other people the rest of high school but i always ran to him when i was in trouble and it caused trouble w/ my relationship w/ ian. in 12th grade we sat next to each other in physics which was weird but okay until i went to his house one night and things got a bit out of hand and i told ian and he told rr to back off and i didn't talk to rr after that but i still had to sit next to him everyday. then one day my dad came home and said he talked to rr and he was going to the same college as me. lovely. so i did run into him in college and one time we even went out to lunch at the end of freshman year. i was still w/ ian at the time, he was still in high school and got some info that rr was a millionaire and freaked out on me that i would leave him for rr. anyway, nothing happened, i went home for the summer. sophomore year i went back to UB and ian came too so now we were all together again. ian and i broke up around the same time rr and i started running into each other more often. so basically when ian and i broke up, i got together w/ rr though he had a gf already, she got the boot. so we basically were together the next 6 years, living together, moved to boston together. we broke up a long time ago, dec 98/jan 99 and didn't speak for a bit after that but eventually we started talking again though we had some trouble because my new boy was jealous and didn't want me to see rr, though somehow everyone got over that because we all eventually hung out along w/ other boys i had after that. rr started dating jenn way back when and we met and somehow we started all hanging out and it's been that way since. i did move away for 4 years for grad school but we still kept in touch all the time then, and now the last 2 years we've lived together. so it's a long weird history and i can fill in more details some other time.

My commute is so short, yay!, that I don't get in many songs on my way but usually what I do end up listening to sticks w/ me for the day, like the songs I posted the other day, I heard those on my 15 min. commute into work.

So for today it was:

'Interesting Drug' Morrissey

'Can't Hold Us Down' Christina A and Lil Kim

'Wrong Impression' Natalie Imbruglia

'I'm a Believer' The Sheila Divine. One of my favorite all-time songs ever and my favorite Sheila song! I wanted to link to a better video of this song but there are only 3 on YouTube and mine goes right into the song so I'm using it again. It's not the best but it is mine.

Enjoy the music!

"I can't stop the music"

a friend of mine sent this email today

Hey girls, I am having a hell of a week. Hoping that you all can help me with this situation. I have a puppy here with a fractured femoral head. Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. Usually we would do a fentanyl patch, an NSAID to go home. The issue is that the man in the house just got out of jail for drug trafficking a week ago. The woman was arrested about a month ago for huffing hairspray while driving with small children in the car. I am not making this up. So would you guys dispense controlled drugs to these people? What about tramadol? I have not used in a dog this small (16 lbs). Hope you are doing well.

To me it doesn't seem such a complicated situation. I'd stick w/ the fentanyl patch and NSAID.

Not sure how you get this info on your clients though.

I got an email this morning about the apt. I was going to see today. Someone put down money already. It sucks because I thought it was going to be 'the one' and I contacted the girl about it right away when she posted it but she was on vacation at the time and asked if I could see it Tuesday afternoon but I said No because I had class and then turns out I didn't have class because MOnday was a holiday and yesterday we were on Monday class schedule. Wish I would have put this all together and contacted her back to say I could come yesterday. Now I have no leads and the search I once thought was promising seems very hopeless.

Maybe it's a sign that I'm supposed to leave Boston. Postdoc isn't going well, ruined relationship w/ roomies, nowhere to live...got nothing, but I also have no where to go.

Hip hop class Saturday morning??

I emailed him my racing schedule. He's our new coach and trying to get to know everyone. So to quote part of his email reply:

You were in the eye shadow on Saturday, right? You were a dead ringer for Molly Ringwald!

Haha!

One more 80s run pic of me and my ladies stretching out after the fun was over. Don't we look lovely after running 14 miles (me and tara) and 18 miles for joslynn. my side ponytail was a little destroyed but my eye shadow held up very well. Thanks Estee Lauder!!

So you lose to the shittiest team and then beat the best team all in the same week. You guys suck and do this every year regardless. I still love you though! How can you fuck up the tournament two years in a row? You know my FAVORITE month of the year is March but you need to make the tourney or you screw me out of a whole month of fun!! Where's G-Money when you need him?

Fuck Off Hoyas!

Here's a pic to make me less depressed. Life was fun back then. Those furry clogs were by far my favorite shoes EVER but somehow I lost them. I remember losing them way back then and being so pissed about it. At least I've captured them in a pic. It's my cousin Tammy, Me and my brother Jeremy. I think Tammy and I were in first grade so that means my brother maybe was in pre-school. This is after my dance performance. The suitcase was my prop. I used to dance a lot: from kindergarten through maybe 4th grade. Eventually I auditioned for a repertory company Studio M and made it. That took up most of my life outside of school back then. I always wonder how my life would have turned out if I didn't give it up. I miss it!

Fun fact: Back in first grade Adam used to chase me around and corner me then kiss me wherever he could. I was always mortified. Maybe that's why when I got older I was quoted as saying 'I'd rather be raped than kissed.' Adam moved away but we met up again in high school during confirmation classes. He was a big headbanger w/ the best long straight blonde hair and Metallica t-shirts.

Okay, I'm starting my extended Holiday weekend recap early while I wait for my laundry.

Friday night I left work a little early, everyone else in the postdoc office had gone already. I went home to take care of the dogs and then went back to Kendall to meet Jos at work and walk to the Garment District. we wanted to get stuff for our 80s themed long run saturday morning. so i got some sunglasses, bracelets, sweatband and then 2 real shirts, not 80s stuff but i did end up wearing the orange shirt w/ axes to the 80s run just because it was orange and matched my sunglasses. everything there was 50% off so i got 2 $30 shirts for $15 each which is a great deal so not only did i get stuff for the run but i got real stuff too.

after garment district we met meghan at the asgard for dinner before the vagina monologues at MIT. while at dinner the waiter spilled joslynn's tartar sauce and coleslaw all over her and the floor. very ackward! maybe 15 minutes later another guy dropped a dish right behind me and a big piece of it hit me in the back. hello! did we do something? are we making you nervous? anyway, we got our wine for free. we would have gotten another round for free but we had to get to the vagina monologues.

went to the vagina monologues at MIT. sat in the second or third row. it was my first time. my stomach was making really loud noises and i felt bad because it was REALLY LOUD. but i was getting my period and had bad cramps. i apologized to meghan at the end because i was sitting next to her. she said she could try to lie and say she didn't hear but it'd be too obvious she was lying, she heard. all that talk about vaginas really made me want to have sex :0( it was mostly funny but very sad too. not that i love my vagina, nowhere near, i hate it more than anything else but i feel like i'm at least more in touch w/ it than the stories in the vagina monologues. we were supposed to meet rachel there but we totally forgot and just sat down w/out looking for her. i didn't remember until halfway thru the show when i leaned to jos and said something about forgetting rachel and we laughed a bit. saw her at the end; luckily she was w/ other people. believe it or not but we went home after, made it an early night. had to get up early for the long run. got home and talked to db for a little, he was in san fran which reminded me that i didn't actually call naomi and wish her a happy bday (she lives in san fran). so i called her, it was still friday her time and we talked until 2:30 my time. went to bed until 7:30 when i got up for the long run.

put on my 80s stuff, blue eye shadow, side ponytail and took the t to central. not sure if people thought i was crazy or not. the run was kinda fun actually, as fun as a 14 mile run can be in a windchill of 8 degrees. the hosts planned a route all over boston so we could look like weirdos all over town. after 2 hrs 20 min were back at damian and justin's and got to eat some french toast and drink kool-aid and tang and listen to 80s music. stayed for a bit and then took off. i was freezing and needed a shower. after my shower i was going to do laundry but didn't have enough money so instead started watching '10 things i hate about you.' so it was supposed to be a good movie and i'd never seen it and then heath died so like everyone else i put it at the top of my netflix queue and it said long wait but lucky for me it wasn't a long wait for me. didn't get through it all yesterday. ended up going to the south end for a play, 'Speed the Plow.' jake's bf's theater company was performing it so i wanted to go and represent. tara and chris went too along w/ ban and michael. after the play we went to boston beer works where i tried to calorie load after my 14 miles. i hadn't really eaten much all day so had cheeseburger, o-rings and a beer. after dinner we hit the cask. when i was in undergrad the cask was my hangout. loved it there! then they redid it and made it huge and ridiculous so now it's not what it used to be. the music wasn't so bad so it was fun but i wasn't drinking so it wasn't as fun as it could have been plus i had my period and i wasn't prepared for the flow. yuck! got to talk to db when i got home, that was good and bad. went to bed around 4am.

got up about 11am on sunday. for some reason decided to make myself scrambled eggs and toast. burned the scrambled eggs because i'm addicted to my laptop but they still tasted fine. finished watching '10 things i hate about you.' went to the atm to deposit a check and get cash for laundry, went to whole foods and cvs. haven't been to whole foods in a long time. hate food shopping. never know what to get. i don't think it's important enough to spend money on food. so i got lots of randomness: skim milk, Ciao Bella sorbetto!, lowfat chocolate milk, peanut butter, Kozy Shack rice pudding!, supersweet frozen corn, Bolthouse Berry Smoothie!, fresh carrots, bananas, cheddar, snow cone cookies!, and ciabatta bread.

the skim milk most likely will get thrown out unopened when it expires, bananas will get thrown in the freezer when they turn brown, bread will get moldy, sorbetto will get freezer burn, maybe the other stuff will get eaten. i just wanted to make the carrots. i love cooked carrots, used to hate them! asked db for help. i know it's silly to need help to cook carrots but i've never done it before. boiled them and then added olivio and honey because i didn't have brown sugar. they were real good! while i was making the carrots i started drinking wine. i wanted to cut back on the alcohol because it's been causing some problems but i needed it today. ended up drinking the whole bottle. helped me to do my laundry. ended up getting lots of laundry done, drunk i guess is good for some things, but i did forget my keys and was locked out until a nice English girl let me in after i started buzzing all the apts. in my building until she answered and then came down to physically let me in and see i wasn't a crazy person, fooled her! guess i needed a day to myself so i don't forget what a loser i am. lots of crying today and wallowing. fun fun!

can't wait until tomorrow

so it's monday and i have the day off. got up around 11am. talked to tara who got me to get out the door asap and go running. did my 7 miles. it wasn't pretty, my body felt slow, but it was for some reason 63 degrees so i can't complain. had just enough time to shower and get to the movie theater to meet mark. we saw 'step up 2,' yay! the dialogue was cheesy but the dancing was pretty good. the soundtrack could have been better but there were some good songs. then we went to BHP about 4:30 and stayed until 11. syracuse played on espn at 7 against louisville and it was on at the BHP so i had to stay. mark got to see my obnoxious self watching an su game though i was very tame this time. su lost unfortunately. didn't make it to joslynn's dinner party. sorry jos i already had plans w/ mark and didn't want to ditch. thanks mark for a fun day!! and all your advice :0)

now i'm home and back to my silly cry baby self. what is wrong w/ me?

Today our long run had an 80s theme. I'm glad the threesome did their part to dress it up.

Our gracious hosts:

Damien kept us on course, some of us girls would have gotten lost w/out his guidance.

Justin cooked the grub to refuel us afterwards.

Thanks for hosting guys!!

Here's the fabulous T-bird

And Jos

Check out my blue eye shadow!

I don't look that much different than this 80s photo w/ my bff Blythe. This is us in like 6th grade, circa 1985 maybe. Looks like I borrowed my sunglasses for today's run from Blythe :0)

I went to another apt. today. It's in Back Bay basically right on Mass. Ave. It would be very convenient to work, just go over the Mass. Ave. bridge and I'm there. The building was nice and secure w/ elevator, laundry downstairs, though the apt. was on the first floor so don't need the elevator. Laundry is good though! it's a small one bedroom. you walk in and you're in the kitchen. step forward and you're in the living room. to the left is the little bedroom and there's a bathroom. probably enough space for me, and better than a studio because there's a separate bedroom even if it is small. the realtor guy sucked, he was late and then didn't have the key to the apt. just to the front door so i had to wait even longer for him to go get the key. meanwhile another realtor came to show these 2 girls and after they were done he let me look real quick. then he of course gave me his card and said he had the best apts, of course you do. so i keep waiting for my guy. he eventually comes and i take a better look. hardwood floors, high ceilings, everything seems nice, just a little small. it's available now so that's the biggest problem for me. i have another cheaper place to look at next wed. so i'm not making any decisions before that. but this back bay place is $1300/month, unless i take it sooner than later the realtor said i could get it for $1250 or $1275 maybe, whatever that means. i'd also have to pay this crummy realtor half fee. it comes w/ heat and hot water but i'd still have to pay for cable, internet... so it's kinda too expensive though i could probably manage somehow. i found out what my next raise will be end of july, basically enough to take the place and i always have the backup credit cards. anyway, i have another place in harvard sq. to look at that's a one bedroom for $1100 and everything included, even cable and internet. so anyway, that's the latest.

You're the best vagina friend.

Thanks Joslynn!

(If I gave you the context of our conversation it wouldn't be so good so I won't.)

I found another one, different day, different bottoms, same pose. I think my brother's in a walker behind me and that was our dog Misty that ended up snapping/nipping my brother when he was 2 maybe, I don't really remember, and we had to take her to the shelter. It was an awful!

I'm very exhausted right now. My 13 miles in the blizzard, not blizzard, blizzard was very draining but I'll try my best while I wait for the last Grey's Anatomy episode to download from iTunes, why's it taking so long and how did I miss this episode, I hate having to buy it when it was online for free at some point.

Friday I had to go to a conference all day in Waltham. That meant I had to take the T to MIT as usual, then pick up the work van to drive out to Waltham. It wasn't so bad but I never drive so I hate it, especially when I have to drive something big just to transport me, and it had snowed some that morning. Conference was okay, food was great and I got to see some people I've met previously. I know I'm supposed to appreciate the networking thing, especially when I'm done w/ my program and need a real job, but I absolutely hate it and suck at it! Made it back to MIT around 6 and was checking email and planning a very boring, rest-up weekend when Jos called.

Uh oh! Can't say No to dinner at the sevens and beers at bhp. met her at sevens after quick going home to change and she was w/ val and val's roomies. had a fine dinner, turkey wrap w/ potato salad and 2 stellas. jos was staying w/ me to finish my beer and head to the atm, val and roomies were meeting us at bhp but on their way out val started talking to this guy and at some point introduced jos and i when he started telling me he had seen me earlier and wanted to talk to me, blah, blah, blah. we soon left, hit the atm then bhp. val and roomies were not there. turns out roomies went home and val ditched. never heard from her again. lucky us, this guy from the sevens comes to bother us, mostly me, at the bhp. he said and did lots of cheesy things, even calling his phone w/ my cell, asking me about my current boyfriend and then describing himself, asking what my roommates will do when i bring him home, etc. eventually we started talking to a seemingly harmless doctor on the other side of jos which pissed off 'my current boyfriend', yay! my plan worked, and he took off. doctor man talked to us the rest of the night, buying us beers, very bad! because jos had to run long in the morning. she left to catch the train and doctor man walked me home. i thought he was very harmless until he stole a kiss on the check. could have been worse i guess but i wasn't offering and he didn't ask. found out later jos lost atm card, t pass and didn't make the run. sorry! i don't want to be a bad influence, but she did ask me to go out :0) guess we should have left by 11, our original plan. got to talk to db when i got home and complain about my night. unfortunately i usually only remember bits and pieces of our conversations because i mostly talk to him when i've been drinking. that's not good.

had to get up on saturday morning for snowshoeing. i didn't sleep well friday night and woke up feeling kinda sick. wished i didn't have to get up but glad i did. good thing i had time to shower. kate picked me up in a zipcar, neither of us have cars and no one was going from boston. we went out to weston and met 5 other girls from TE and went snowshoeing. more snow would have been better but at least there was snow. it was a fun time and i was tired by the time i got home. i had so much laundry to do and i was so tired so i just did it right away when i got home so i wouldn't fall asleep. i was too tired to do multiple loads so i still have lots left to do. i love doing laundry but i hate having to go to the laundromat so it ends up piling up. hopefully my new apt. has laundry in it! after laundry i think i napped a little bit. i finally finished watching 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Saw IV.' Both movies took me multiple sittings to get through for some reason. Not very good I guess. Then finally I had time to catch up on the latest season of Lost. I haven't been watching because I have track on Thurs. but I can catch it online. I don't want to like the show anymore but after watching all the latest episodes yesterday and today, I'm again hooked! Tara called last night at 10:30 to hang out w/ her and Chris. I hated saying No because of course I want to hang out w/ them but it was already kinda late and I wasn't ready to go out so it would have taken some effort. I declined and watched Lost until just after 1am when I couldn't stay awake any longer.

Slept good last night, until after 10am. Chatted w/ db for quite awhile until Tara called to go running. we had to do 13 miles, ugh! so we got all ready to go, i took cleo out real quick, called tara to say i was leaving to meet her, we meet in the middle, 3 miles to bu bridge, and she says it's snowing and stuff. i say no way! i was just outside and nothing. i look out the window and nothing. so we leave, i leave the house, and it's snowing and really windy like a blizzard. i run back in real quick to see if tara called to say it's too bad out but she hadn't so i just left her a message in case she did and took my phone. it was so crappy for the first mile or so but then it stopped snowing and cleared up. by the time we met each other we were too hot and the conditions were fine. i started to feel crappy sooner than usual today on the run. not sure why. snowshoeing yesterday, not enough energy? so it sucked! especially having to run over heartbreak hill. we are silly and run on the boston marathon course. so we're on our way back, maybe 2 miles to go and the blizzard starts again complete w/ thunder. we were trekking up heartbreak hill in the crazy snow, wind and thunder. we made it eventually and by the time we hit tara's apt. it had cleared up again. weirdest weather on a run, maybe not ever, that would probably go to some of my runs in kansas, but still weird.

chilled at tara's, literally, i started shaking because i was cold, so showered up at tara's, got all clean and made it over to s&s. since we had just burned about 1300 calories and only eaten maybe 300 so far, and it was about 5pm, we had big thoughts about eating lots of food. we tried. we had hummus for appetizer but didn't finish it. then i had scrambled eggs w/ toast, homefries, sausage, and fruit. i ate most of it and we hung around talking for awhile. long enough that on the way home i said i wasn't full anymore and tara said the same. i was kinda hungry again. never ate anything else when i got home, now it's 10:30 so what's the point? as we were driving down broadway in kendall sq. we hit some ice and lost control of the car. there was a red light ahead w/ 2 cars in front of us. we slide into the right lane, good thing no one was there, and somehow we eventually stopped right before hitting the car in front. it was so weird, like slow motion, just sitting there bracing for impact, not saying anything. good thing it turned out okay. close one.

so i got home about 8. finally talked to my mom to wish happy birthday. she got 2 calls from alzheimer's grandma, haha! then i finished watching Lost and now I have Grey's Anatomy if I can stay awake.

I feel like we need some nudity.

That's cousin Brian sitting at the picnic table. Not karaoke Brian but Native American Brian. different side of the family.

That is my signature hip move. I still do that when I'm dancing. Always hands on the hips!!! Though I didn't really have hips then, or a chest. I wish I never got them :0( Looks like I already had a butt though, yuck!

Sorry if there's typos, I'm having trouble typing after 3 beers and running 8 miles and barely any food or water.

Josylynn and I have been meeting at the BHP every Tues. for awhile now. Our bartender Carrie is awesome and we love her!!

So I got home from work and needed to go running. I only needed to do 3 but I was in a bad mood, db was rude to me and i was pissed about it so i ended up doing 8 miles instead of 3. barely got done in time to take cleo out, she ate a ton of billy's food and was bad and needed to poop, and meet j at bhp.

talked to db and squared away the rudeness. hopefully it won't happen again. we had a good time j and i at bhp as usual. met the day not GAY bartender. he liked the remake of texas chainsaw as did i so that started our conversation. anyway, j and i kept ourselves to 3 beers so j could make the t home. i thought it wasn't going to work when 2 guys came in and wanted to play darts w/ us. we told them we'd be there next week if they made it there earlier we'd play them.

what else to say. last night i had a couple dreams i remember. i was video chatting w/ someone as they snorted coke w/ their friends. very disturbing! and next dream i was going down on this chick, i remember taking off her pants and underwear and just before i went in for you know what, i woke up. the funny thing is i know her from work, not that i see her that often, but when i do how can i not think of this.

um, other than that, have contacted a couple people about apts. through craigslist and they've both been scams. get these emails back about how they're in africa or london and need me to fill out info...

guess i should go to bed now.

love ya
h

It’s already Tuesday and no Weekend Recap. Sorry for the lateness but I’m trying not to write it at work, though I am right now :0(

Feels like all I do now is run, eat and drink and not necessarily in that order, and eating gets left out most, and drinking is usually alcohol, not water or Gatorade, maybe some Diet Coke.

I just finished up week 3 of 16 for marathon training and though I thought I was building miles slowly I’m already up to 31 miles last week and that was a step down week. I’m already feeling exhausted!

Thursday night had track and did a good 1000s workout. Met at The Asgard after for some food, half a turkey burger and some mashed potatoes, 2 beers, and 2 Diet Cokes. Had my last sleepover w/ db, he went away for awhile.

Friday night was originally meeting Tara at Venu but I got there way before her, she was running late and having trouble getting a cab there. I met this guy on the street w/ a handful of change. He wanted 2 dollars for his change but I didn’t want his change so I was just going to give him $2 but I only had $1 so I gave it to him and said I didn’t want his change. Then a policeman came up to us and asked what was going on and I said it was fine and explained the deal but then another one showed up and they were all suspicious. They wanted to see what was in the guy’s hand and he opened it to show a shitload of change. They let me go away but wanted the guy to go w/ them. I then walked over to Remington’s for a beer to wait for Tara. Ended up sitting between a woman and a man that were playing Keno and scratch tickets. The guy ended up talking to me, telling me his life story basically. He would scratch his tickets and ask me if they were winners. The first ticket he showed me he won $5. Then he had another winner and waited until the end to scratch off the amount he won. He made me do it so I scratched it off to find $40. He thought I was lucky. Finally Tara made it and he gave up his seat for her. We changed our plan to Gypsy Bar, it was right next door, and we even got Joslynn to bail what she was doing to come. This place was way too crowded. Ran into a co-worker when Tara asked her where the coat check was. She came up to me later in the coat check line to say another girl that used to work w/ us that is now in vet school was there but I never ran into them again. Got drinks somehow, it was hard to get to the bar. Tried to dance on the dancefloor but it was ridiculous. Ended up finding space off the dancefloor where there was a seating area. It was like our own dancefloor so it worked out fine. Music was pretty good and we danced awhile. Joslynn ended up leaving w/out telling us, until she was home. Left just before closing I think and walked home alone. Kinda scary but I made it okay.

Didn’t sleep well. Keeps happening lately. Basically got up and chilled for a bit before Tara and I met to go running. We ended up doing 8 miles to get it out of the way so we didn’t have to do it on Sunday. We went to S&S for brunch afterwards. I haven’t been there in so long, it was very yummy!! Made it home just in time to do some laundry. I wanted a nap so bad but had to meet co-worker Steve at 8 at MIT so I was running out of time. I think I was on time meeting him but he was late so I got to talk to Jen in Maine for a little bit, which reminds me I’m supposed to ask the roomies if she can stay over in a few weeks. Steve finally came and we walked over to the Middle East. I had dinner while he sat there having beer, I had beer too, he wasn’t feeling great so didn’t want to eat. We were there until just after 10 and then walked over to the Middle East downstairs to see other co-worker Nate’s band Scamper, their last show. While we were standing outside so Steve could smoke, we heard the show was sold-out but when we went in to check it wasn’t. We got there just in time to see Nate and his band on stage singing w/ one of the openers. They were almost done, then another band, then Scamper. Lots of my co-workers were there but it was a weird vibe for me. I’m good w/ some of them one-on-one but some of them I never talk to and they hang out a lot so I felt out of place. They started doing shots, I thought I wasn’t gonna drink much, but I had a couple shots along w/ my beers. Eventually Joslynn texted she was going over near Park St. to a bar w/ Val so I wanted to ditch. Scamper went into their encore and I found Steve outside smoking to tell him I was bailing. I invited him to be nice, I think he thought I was being kinda rude, he decided not to come and I luckily caught the very last train to Park and made it to the bar just before 1am. Got a vodka drink and hung out until closing. Nothing crazy but a much better vibe than where I was. Again walked home alone and again had another shitty night of sleep. Much shittier than Friday night which really sucks.

Sunday I had to run again and make it to a SuperBowl party. Got to talk to my brother for a little bit. Don’t talk that often. I think because I never get to see them and when I talk to them I get depressed about not seeing them and missing out on my niece and nephew growing up so I end up calling less. Got to talk to Ella. She said she was coming over and we’d do surgery. Not sure how old she has to be before she can take the plane here. She’s not even 3 yet so I think that’s too young, huh? Tara called to go running and we got in our 6 miles. Made it over to a very packed Trader Joe’s for some snacks and beer to take to the SuperBowl party. Once I got back from Trader Joe’s I basically had time to shower and it was time to go. I was so tired and had a big day on Monday. I had to give my seminar, CPC and journal club and I wasn’t feeling prepared. I almost brought my work w/ me to the party but at the last second decided against it. Made it to the party for some food, yummy nachos, first meal of the day. Watched the game. Was bored w/ the game and tired. Good company though. Finally the game got good in the 4th quarter. I was quietly rooting for the Giants in a room of Pats fans but I had no faith that they would win, especially after the Pats scored. Once the game was over we got out of there real fast. No one was happy and I was tired and had lots of work to do. Made it home and tried to do work but was too tired.

Monday is now over so that’s good. I survived all the stuff I had to do so I got to have fun all weekend and still my work got done. Would have went out for a beer last night after my crazy day at work but probably lucky for me that didn’t happen. Had a beer at home and did some more laundry.

Back to another week of running, eating and drinking. Will run more, need to eat more, need to drink less and need to sleep more. We’ll see how it goes.