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Not much happened today.  Got shut down by one doctors' office and another one told me I could come do the research there.  It's all cool.

I didn't get either thing done that I said I was going to today.  Room's still dirty and the Lego's still not done.  Maybe tomorrow?

Got my run in tonight and whoever was taking shots of paint thinner and chasing with bleach needs to stop.  The smell of your vomit and those two almost made me hurl on my run.  Thanks.

Got an early morning tomorrow.  Doubling and going to the west side for that doctor's office thing.

Night.

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Today was Memorial Day.  That means 3 day weekend.  Which means work weekend around our house.

I actually got a lot done in my room today.  Should be able to get it finished tomorrow.

Started building a Lego set that I've had for a couple years too.  That should also get finished tomorrow.

I'm actually starting my training now that I'm healthy and most of my aches and pains are gone now.  I took some time completely off because of my sore Achilles but now that's better.  My hip is starting to bother me a little bit but I'll get that taken care of.  Probably from my crash.  I ran tonight at 11 o'clock.  It felt amazing at that time and I hadn't yet run for the day so I got it in.  I love running around without the sun beating down and cars passing by super fast.  The lack of catcalls is also nice for a change too.  I wish I could run trails or grass in the dark though.  Maybe some day.

Lots to do tomorrow so I'd better get some sleep.

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Don't remember anything from today.

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Today was the guys HS track regional.  Don't really remember much else.

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Well, it's raining.  Big storm's rolling through right now and it's pouring.

Got up today and had to help my mom through some stuff.  She's trying to control my life, telling me to get a job and such.  I had to give her info about the internship in Chicago and then get the TV sorted out.  They've decided to take everything digital so our TVs are all jacked up and don't work on every channel because of the digital stuff.  They've got to bring us some converter boxes or something.  Whatever.

I went to the doctors' office to get some patients, or at least set up with them to come in and get some subjects.  That should be done next week if all works out well.

Went on a bike ride with Sam today.  Bad idea.  Not because Sam's a bad rider and out of shape, which he's not, but because there was awful wind preceding these storms coming in.  Other than the wind though, the ride wasn't bad.  The tail wind was nice too.  Still need to run today though.

Probably gonna head out to Will Sievern's house and play some poker tonight.  Maybe make some money.  Then run off my disappointments after the rain has stopped.

That's it for today.

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Forgot about this last night.  Screw it.

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Today starts a new chapter in the summer.  The chapter is that in which I get my shit together.

Some of the stuff I did involved getting some things cleaned up around the house.  I cleaned up the tools my mom used in the garden she planted yesterday and washed the dishes.  I also inquired to the proper sources about some more details of the activities taking place the rest of my summer.  I emailed Dr. K. about the research project and sent Kovack a message about the internship.  Hopefully I can have a plan later this week for the rest of my summer.

My serious training for cross season started today too.  I will be running every day for the rest of the summer except for the occasional day off because I'm still coming back from the 6 weeks I took off this spring.  I had a good run today and outran my 3rd or 4th storm.

Teenpower is quickly approaching and it's gonna be the best week ever.  Just saying.  It's gonna be rad.

I'm hitting the sack early.  Gonna try to get a run in tomorrow morning.

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Two full weeks in the books...

Not sure where these weeks went.  I kind of wish I would have done something with them actually...

Hopefully I'll start doing something this next week and I won't feel so worthless.

I'm almost through every episode of How I Met Your Mother though.  One of three discs of season 5 is done.  Not gonna be getting another one in tonight though.  Mom's dead set on getting me in the garden tomorrow.  I don't like to get dirty like that.  Just saying.

I did run today and it felt great.  Need to do more of that...

Goal: Get stuff done this summer.  I need to get a lot done.  Getting quality training is one major thing but there are others too.

Gotta get some quality sleep now though.

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Boring day again.

I slept in late and didn't do much of anything.  Got some stuff accomplished on the asthma project but other than that, I watched How I Met Your Mother.  Might be done with that by this weekend...  Gonna need something else to take up time.

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I need to ration more time for these before I'm so close to it being tomorrow.  And I need to write before watching How I Met Your Mother.  Just gonna do bullets again.

• Lunch with Dr. K to discuss asthma project stuff.
• Took Grandpa up to nursing home to see Gran again and take her clothes this time.
• Finished season 2 of HIMYM.
• Owen stopped by for a bit.
• Went to the library on my way to TP college staff training.  Was pleasantly surprised when I got 3 seasons of HIMYM when I was only expecting 2.  Should be ready to watch season 6 with Owen this weekend since he hasn't seen it either.
• Went to TP meeting.
• Got home and have been watching HIMYM since.

Gotta get back to my show.

I promise to run tomorrow.  At least once.

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Another lazy post.

• woke up and helped fix our dryer
• finished watching the first season of HIMYM in less than one day
• started season two
• went to kick a soccer ball around with Alex
• ate some pizza rolls
• took a nap (4 hours at 5 o'clock)
• watched more HIMYM

I'm gonna be up a little bit because of that nap.  I still haven't gotten gas yet.  I might be able to make it till it gets back to $3.93.

Double runs tomorrow.

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Today started way too early for my liking.  It would have been fine if I hadn't stayed up till 2 something last night.  Just couldn't sleep.

The only reason I was up so early too was because my mom's computer illiterate.  She was trying to get connected to a conference presentation but couldn't figure it out.  I will give her the benefit of the doubt because it took me about 8 minutes to figure it out myself, but I was sleepy, having just been woken up from my restful slumber.  But I went to bed again after getting her connected and with sound.

Soon as she was done watching this presentation though, she was all over my ass to get stuff done.  The main thing she was on me about was actually kind of important.  I had to go to my grandpa's and go with him to the nursing home to see my grandma.  She's got Alzheimer's if you didn't know and has for quite a while, but she's doing well with it.  Our main mission was to go get her dirty clothes and take some clean socks to her.  This was accomplished no sweat.  We even got to give her a little ride down the hall.  The thing that worried me was my grandpa's driving.  Mind you, this man is 85 years old but still drives like a teenager.  I don't think it's that his reaction time is slow but that he gets distracted while he's driving and doesn't pay attention to where he should be looking.  I was a little scared, but I'm used to riding with my sister by now and my mom's not the best at paying attention either.

Once that mission was accomplished and I was back home, I get a call from my sister.  She's coming home sick, sore throat and all.  This wouldn't be bad but she has track sectionals tomorrow and I want her to perform well.  I got her some Tylenol and then I had to go to the library.  Jenna wanted some music and I'm beginning to watch How I Met Your Mother.  Excellent show by the way.  I got back from the library and ended up watching 7 episodes of HIMYM.  I might even watch some more after I get done with Chuck and House tonight.

Went for a short 5 miler before getting a shower and getting all snazzed up for Lauren Minor's birthday dinner.  It was a good time, but only, if only...

Dad's done in the shower so I gotta go watch TV.  Hopefully I'll get more runs in this week than I have in previous weeks.  My homemade Strassburg sock seems to be doing the trick on my Achilles.

See you tomorrow.

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Forgot to do this last night 'cuz people were over at my house.

Got up EARLY yesterday because there was the last TAC meeting of the year.  I still didn't drive though.  I got my sister to take my bike on the back of her car and I was planning on riding after that, more than just going home.  Once I got on my bike though, I realized that my Achilles tendon was sore as hell still.  That turned my 30+ mile ride into a 9 miler home.

I took a "nap" when I got home.  I started watching Sin City and ended up sleeping till 1:30.  I woke up and finished the movie before getting my stuff together for the SIAC meet.

I still didn't drive.  Rode with my sister to the meet.  I felt kind of bad though because I missed her hurdles race.  I went on a run in the neighborhoods surrounding Central with Scotty and Clay before the meet started and we didn't get back before Jenna ran.

The meet went well.  Caleb Kerr got DQed in the mile for false starting.  Other than that, no hitches.  The MHS girls won this meet like they won city, handedly.  Mom, Dad, Owen, Kevin Lasher, and I went to Rounder's Pizza for supper.  Their chicken pizza is delicious.  I think it's called the "Jeremy"?  Mom and Dad took Kevin home and more people showed up at our house.  We watched The Perfect Storm (good movie, but I'm not gonna re-watch it any time soon) and then they all left and I went to sleep.  The nap didn't seem to help my tired level of the day.

Now it's the weekend.  No post till Monday.

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So since Blogger was down last night, this post is coming in the morning but I wrote it last night.

Today was actually a fun day.  Still kind of slow starting but a good day in general.

Woke up late as usual in my summer days.  I was planning on doubling my runs today but that ended up not happening.  The run did happen, just at a very in opportune time.  There was a shower ran through the Evansville area this afternoon that I thought was going to kill my hopes to run today.  Luckily it only lasted about 5 minutes, enough to make the humidity jump to 100%.

After my run I cleaned up and got ready to go to the SIAC track meet to watch my sister and the rest of the Tigers (and a select few other individuals that I actually care about) run to their hearts content.  Jenna’s doing pretty well in the meet thus far, qualifying for all the events she’s been entered in.  My boy Caleb Kerr also had a decent run tonight too.  The boys 2 mile went out fairly slow for their standards, coming through the mile in 4:55.  Caleb came back and ran an awesome negative, leaving the rest of the field to eat dust.

I got through today without driving.  Still going strong on that half tank even though gas prices are beginning to fall.

There was something that I was meaning to talk about in this post but I’ve completely forgot about it now.  Oh well.

Early morning tomorrow so I’d better go to bed. (12:01am)

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More of the same today.  Already lazy so I'm gonna bullet point.

• Washed the dishes.
• Planned to ride, run, go to the TP staff meeting on my bike but that didn't happen due to the next point.
• Mom called and basically told me I was working the gate at a baseball game.  I had been planning to not drive at all the rest of the week.  (I want to see how long I can go on a half tank, and gas is over $4).  I did get $20 out of it though.
• Went to the staff training with my sister because we didn't need to both drive.
• Had a chat with Preston about the goings on of TP this year and planned some stuff.

First week's half over already.  It's gonna go WAY too fast.

P.S. I desperately need to run.  I'm starting to feel bad and out of shape.

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Forgot to do this last night so lets see if I can still remember what I did yesterday.

Didn't wake up early again because there was no reason to.  Once I was up though, my mom made me pack some hardware from the garage to some guy's truck that was here.  Not tough work but it got my day going, I suppose.  After he was gone, I just had to chill till my interview at 1.

The interview went well.  Seems like I have a good chance of getting the job as a vampire at St. Mary's.  It'd be a good job to get me involved in the medical field a little bit.

After the interview was over, I came home and the kid down the street was at my house already.  This kid comes down to play with the dog.  He's like 5 I think and Kipper could eat him if he wanted.  I went down to my grandpa's to talk with him, my uncle, and my cousin and brought the dog so he wouldn't bark or jump his invisible fence.  The kid followed.  I finally got rid of him when I came home to change out of my interview clothes.  But that was short lived.

Jenna had a friend coming over to study and watch Glee last night.  When McKenzie got here, she LET THE KID INTO THE HOUSE!  I was doing everything I could to avoid that EVERY TIME he came down before.  I guess once you break the seal though...  I had to go get my bike handle bars put on my bike so I left them with him.

It felt good to get my bike back to full health.  It didn't last long though.  Bruce and I went for a ride and 20 miles in I got a flat.  After getting about 2-3 more miles down the road on my flat, Bruce was back with my car to pick me up.  Just gotta get that flat fixed and we'll be ready to roll again.

I finally got my stuff back from Coach Hillyard yesterday too.  Now that I have my running shoes back, I can get to training like I really want to.  Tomorrow (today) is a busy day so I've got to get going.

Still Looking for a Sign-off

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Today was a pretty boring day, for the most part.  Didn't really wake up at any particular time since there was nothing on the schedule except the random stuff my mom decided to tell me to do, which I didn't.  By the way, that list included:

• mow the lawn
• do some laundry
• there was something else that I can't remember because she brought it up at dinner, but it's irrelevant because I didn't do it anyway.

Since I had wrecked my bike yesterday and I left my running shoes in Rolla, MO with the team, the first things on MY to-do list were get my bike fixed and get my stuff from coach.  Neither got accomplished, but both were started and will be accomplished tomorrow.  Scout's honor.

The exciting parts of my day came in two very similar and well timed offers I received.  (By similar I mean that they are both similar in that they will amass me funds to live on.  Nothing else is really similar about them though.)  First of all, Mr. Zachary Kovack presented me with the specs of the internship he offered me earlier last week.  This is on my list of things-that-might-be-a-possibility-to-do because it seems like a really good time and I'd fit well in the atmosphere presented.  The second thing that was thrown at me was an interview for a job as a phlebotomist.  That's tomorrow so I'll be sure to write about it.

The only thing I don't like about the phlebotomist job is that it interrupted my viewing of Dear John.  Yeah that's right, I was watching a chick flick by myself.  Get over it.

Other than that, nothing really happened.  I nursed my wounds and played some video games with my sister tonight.  Nothing out of the ordinary.

On the docket for tomorrow: gotta get my stuff back, get interviewed, run, get my bike fixed, and maybe ride tomorrow.  We'll see if all that gets accomplished.

Need a good sign-off.  The (#) thing took the title's place...

What it's all about

This is just going to be a really simple thing for me to keep record of what I do in a day.  Just a way to make sure that I'm keeping busy, like that's any trouble for me.  It's nothing special, but it'll tell you what I do in a day.  Some days will probably be just a list, while others will be long stories and accounts of my day.  In all, I'd like to shoot for 76 posts, one for every weekday of my summer break and this one, which I'm not counting in my (75) days.

Before you start bitching that I stole the title from the movie, that's the point.  Except this isn't going to be about a girl and my relationship with her (at least not exclusively about that).  One more thing.  This is no holds bared so I'm probably going to offend some people if they pissed me off that day.  Some posts could even be set to private but if you really want to see them, I may share.  I really hope I don't have to do that though.  I want this summer to be relaxing and fun, not full of drama.  So here goes.

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