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Tag: Random
September 4, 2013
Operation Manatee!
(Warning: Most of this post was written right after a long run, and finished while slightly delirious from an overtraining cold. Enjoy!) Do you know how on a long run, how your mind starts to wander, even though you should be focusing on form, and not the nagging in your left foot, or how your right hip is unusually stiff, or how you should stand upright, or focus the music on your iPod, and avoid the cars, and keep an eye out for dogs, while thinking about if you locked the door, and wonder if something is chafing, and fighting[…continue reading]
August 30, 2013
Gaming Withdrawl
I just realized it’s been over 6 weeks since I sat down to play a video game. Part of my overly ambitious plan from May involved packing them away. That didn’t work at the time, but it’s kind of happened by accident. And I have mixed feelings about the whole situation. I was well aware of how much time I would spend on video games. Usually, I’d have the intention of playing an hour or two, then stay up late for 4 hours. Then repeating the same procedure again the following day. This process would leave me addicted to[…continue reading]
May 27, 2013
Lots of Running in Star Trek Into Darkness
Of course I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness. I’m a huge Star Trek fan. After about a week of letting it digest, I just realized that the characters did a lot of running in this movie. Like, an AWFUL LOT of running. They could marketed the movie as “Starfleet Academy’s Cross Country Team.” I think I can talk about this with giving away any spoilers. You’d think that in a Sci-fi movie they’d spend all their time sitting in their spaceships as they float around space. But they spend a ridiculous amount of time sprinting and running. The[…continue reading]
