1:04:32. Beautiful day on the Yeatman trail. Decent day in class today ... so it is good. Bad was we just found out we will be getting a cut in pay during the next fiscal year (technically we are state employees, even though 50% of my salary comes from NIH grants) [NOTE to any academics out there in fastbloggosphere: it is a "furlough", this is just a way to give a pay-cut because as you know you can't actually take "days off", even on the weekends). I personally think that this is bad in part because it is going to be a distraction in getting our jobs done. Politically, I think the moment the email went out today there were a slew of lawyers that swooped down and started filings similar to the ones that state workers in California have (by the way the state of Arizona is in far worse trouble than California) ... also we have a state tax increase that is going to be on the ballot in 2 months -- and this is a 'warning' of even dire measures if that tax does not get passed. All and all, it is a messy, yucky thing that everyone is crying, yelling, whispering, etc. about ...like I said, a distraction. ho hum. However, I am going to be grateful that I had a great day of running, I am relatively healthy, have some awesome fastrunningblog friends who are going to rock Boston and can't complain about much (well, I can, but I won't ;-)). Have a good middle of the week bloggers!
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