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I was on a bridge in beautiful Vail.


I love these flowers.


I was trying to catch the coffee-cream swirl. I think I see my reflection in the glass, unless the coffee swirl mimicked me!


Wa, wa waaa. I got a ticket because I didn't renew my license (because I didn't register my new address, so my renewal sticker went to my old address).


I have been cooking/eating at home a lot. Here's a photo of my dinner the other day.


This is the mess from our study session the other night.


I was sweltering the other day so I thought I'd check the weather. Wowzers, no wonder I was hot!

No wonder

No wonder I'm stinking hot. It's 85.1 degrees outside.

Ah, spring swells into summer.

Joan Didion's essay, "On Self Respect", is an excellent read.

You can find it here.

Some nibbles to entice you:

"The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others – who we are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something people with courage can do without."

"In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of mortal nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues."

"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference."

"To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect."

repeat miles

Picture this:

6 a.m.
South High School, new track.

Jog there and chat during a few warm up laps.
1 mile - 6:41
(600 jog)
1 mile - 6:40
(600 jog)
1 mile - 6:38
(600 jog)
1 mile - 6:43
Jog back to school gym.

Great 8 mile workout!

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I made pizza with some friends on Sunday night.


I had a busy Monday with missed phone calls, voice messages, text messages and e-mails.


And this, my friends, is what keeps me awake at night.


The view from my school.


My friends from college were in town for a wedding we went to in Vail. This is one of them sleeping in my closet.


A beautiful sunset in Vail.



The wedding in Vail was incredibly beautiful with the snowy mountain backdrop. Poor thing, though, it was about 20 degrees and snowing (yet somehow sunny, too).