You mean everyone doesn't do this?

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." - Arnold Toynbee 

As an interesting side note, I just noticed after showering off that a blood blister that I developed during the Pinhoti 100 (exactly 1 month ago today) just popped.  It had already mostly drained but just wouldn't go away completely until now.

I still can't feel the inside of the tip of my left big toe.  Interesting....

Finals

yay.

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." - John Kenneth Galbraith

7 hours of finals today, all in the same room, and with only a 15 minute break. great day.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." - Harper Lee

You'd think that I'd get my lazy rear end out to run on the day on which I sign up for a new marathon, but no...

(By the way, if anyone's interested, there are still plenty of spots available at the Mississippi Blues Marathon...)

 rough day

 "Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities  but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." - Quentin Crisp