InnerTeub

So I’m thinking that whole post about how I was basically forced to read Mindy Kaling’s book because of my library hold system prowess might prompt a “Thanks for a post about how much you like my book now could you go actually buy the damn thing it’s not like I’m writing for fun, here” [...]

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So I’ve been rocking the Mindy Kaling book, like every other chick in America. Look, I didn’t want to. I knew that I would likely enjoy the book – excerpts I’d read were funny and I enjoyed Bossypants enough to know that I’d likely dig Bossypants 2.0, but I just finished a memoir for book [...]

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That last post where I spoke about how my husband is basically in charge of the personal administration in our house, so much so that I sometimes wonder what I would do if he went *poof* This in turn reminded me of my favorite part of The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s memoir of the death [...]

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My brother just wrote a post on getting things done and then told me to write one as well.  So, obviously, I have no choice: here guys go: here is how i get stuff done: (Apparently I get things done by just doing what my brother tells me to do.) My husband would suggest that I [...]

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My friend Karen tweeted at me this morning that she was posting pics of my old running haunts.  In response, I felt motivated to head out on the first snowfall on the winter to get her some pics of my new morning running loop. For reference, this was my old running route: Pretty nice, huh? [...]

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I think I’ve mentioned before my friend who was running down the National Mall one morning and got so into her music that she didn’t notice for a quarter of mile that there was a police car behind her with sirens on trying to get her to move out of the way. Once she did [...]

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A bunch of my friends are heading to Austin this weekend. My good friend Laura lives in Austin. I’ve got Austin on the brain.  I, for one, am NOT heading to Austin because of the Great Lewis Autumnal* Visit of 2011;  my whole family is coming into town, including my brother and sister-in-law who otherwise live [...]

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I read a great little interview with Jonny Weir this morning; I just love the way this guy expresses himself. Worth a look if you’re looking for ten minutes of procrastination today:  I skate whenever I can and I fit my training in whenever I can because aside from it being my job and the thing [...]

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I went for one of those perfect Fall runs yesterday morning - 40 degrees and sunny at the start, perfect weather to work hard but feel great. Mike and Moose came with me and it was, by far, the highlight of my week.  A great 4 mile run in brisk weather with good conversation was just what [...]

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I love Goodreads and I demand you all join it. Goodreads is like Facebook except you only get updates about what people are reading or what they want to read. The homepage simply scrolls down the changes to people’s reading list… “so and so added THIS book to read!” “so and so read THIS book [...]

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