things on my mind. i haz them.

okay, so that lost post was a trickster. i wrote it a week or so ago, then got sidetracked and forgot to post it. it languished in my draft pile until today. y'all get a two-fer-one deal today! i was feeling bad for not posting lately - but not anymore, suckahs.

my boss has been out of town most of the week, and i have been riding the swinging pendulum between hyper-productive and eyes-glazed-over-lazy. i suspect it should average out to be a decent week once it is over, but man alive. there have been some highs and lows. on wednesday, i had a pile of suspicious looking papers to go through and some annoying work to do. but i couldn't make myself get started. i punked around in the internet for a bit, but that can only be entertaining for a limited amount of time. there came the point when i couldn't even think of anything diverting to look at online. so instead of getting down to brass tacks, i just kept refreshing my hotmail inbox until quittin' time. my brain hurt from the laziness of that afternoon. then yesterday, i worked my little fingers to the bone. i live to make my easy life hard. i can't win.

i think i am also learning a valuable lesson about makeup. i don't wear much. i cover up zits when i have them. i wear mascara most every day. and that's about it. but i happened to be at CVS the other day and decided to waste some money on some eyeshadow. because i wear eyeshadow so often. ? i liked the range of colors in the multipack, and most were pretty light. so what's the harm, eh? well, i wonder if there is a makeup manual out there that advises against shimmering eyeshadow over the age of 30. if there is not, then maybe there should be. or maybe i am just being too critical. but dang if the shimmery bits don't call attention to the elephant-hide-y texture of my aging eyelids and under eye area. i will probably continue to wear it, however, until i see a picture of myself on someone's flickr page looking like a aging country singer in las vegas. then i will stop wearing it. maybe.

so i am enjoying my last day of having pain-free movement in my legs. i tell you, it's a privilege that most people don't appreciate enough. i suppose it's not my last day forever, but it'll certainly be a while before i feel normal enough... because.... tomorrow is the Big Walk. the C&O Canal One Day Hike. there is a 50K option and a 100K option. scott and i (and julie and some others) are doing the 50K option. !! that's about 31 miles. and that's a lotta lotta walking. if you can't conceptualize how far that is, think about what is 30 miles from your house. maybe an airport? your grandma's house? a nearby city? now think about strapping on your shoes and walking there. it's pretty slow going and kind of painful towards the end.

i've been training for several weeks for the event. i started out walking 8 miles, then 13, then 17, then 20, then 21. that's as far as i got, and i am counting on being able to go those last 10 on the day of the event. i usually hit a wall around mile 20, which involves some pretty intense foot pain. but i have new shoes now and good blister protection so i am confident that i'll make it fine. scott has not been training, particularly. his longest walk has probably been 7 miles. and that involved stopping off at museums and strolling around the monuments. i am a bit worried about how tomorrow will unfold. i don't want him to get hurt. he assures me that he'll be fine, that it's no big deal. and i hope he is right, and that i have just been a big flabby wimp this whole time. i hope he can slam me with a big ole "i told you so!" but yikes. i'm sure we'll both finish all 31 miles, but it'll be a question of who ends up with blood squirting out of his or her shoes at the end and whose tendons atrophy so badly overnight that they can't get out of bed on sunday morning. only time will tell! :) so keep us in your thoughts on saturday. the 50K trail starts at Whites Ferry, MD and the walk ends in Harpers Ferry, WV. we bribed some friends to drive us out there in the morning, and another friend to come pick us up.

things i am worried about: getting rained on all day; being annoyed by my flappy, generic rain poncho; relapse of my horrifying blisters from a few weeks ago; the nerve in my right ass area that is prone to pinching and pain.

well that's all i can think of to write at the moment. i'm off to get a bunch of work done, then space out for a while, then work maniacally until 4:30. over and out.