The Favorite Place That I WANT To Be This Week - Track Town USA

Because I want to be in Eugene, OR this week watching the best of the best so their thang....
Because watching some of the close events makes me smile, yell and even turn on the water works a little. Because even though I was pullin for the local gal and Michigan grad Katie McGregor to get her ticket to Bejing (4th place twice = hard to swallow squared) I still had to give credit where credit is due... Hell of a race Amy Begley...

Favorite Television Drama. "Every Day Above Ground Is A Good One."

Jen recently started indulging in season one and hearing about her love at first view made me reminiscent of a show that I hold so dear. So lovingly,in fact, that I made the theme song my ring tone. Well, that is until I tore my phone in half and have been trying, without much luck, to get it downloaded once again on to my new phone. Oh well.... I still got nothing but heart for "Six Feet Under"& here are just a few snack pack reasons why...




Eliminating The Notion That A TV Drama Has To Have One or Two Truly Unique Characters While The Rest Of The Cast Is A Mix Matched Assembly Of Poorly Construed Archetypes: For its 5 year run, the show always had between 10-12 characters that were strongly developed. Yes, having Alan Ball (American Beauty) call the shots was the glue for the show, but the slue of talented writers and actors helped to create, and even more amazingly, keep the stamina up for as long as they did.

Facing The Taboo Head On: As everyone can guess from the title and even just knowing a bit about the show, it dealt with death. The only thing besides, well, you know, taxes, that you can't hide from. Some times the expiration's were natural and clean but most times they were heart wrenching and just over the line bizzaro. As much as you "eeeked" to view it, you just kept coming back.

The Best Series Finale Ever: The way that show ended was a masterpiece. I can count on both hands how unfulfilled I have been with many of the series finales of my likable shows and that scared me going into the "Six Feet Under" last call. From plot, symbolism, point of view, characters, music to irony, the show delivered without disappointment. I have seen the final episode probably 4 times and during and after every time, I cry. Yes, cries of sadness for it ending but most of all I am quietly sobbing because I pretty much have come to terms with the notion that no other show is going to come close to this one. And you know what, that is a-okay.

"These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things..."

I am rounding third and headed for home with My Life On The Run. Which, by the way, is a terrific read. Even if you are not a running enthusiast, I still think you would dig it. Anyway, the last chapters deal with Bart's (you know, since I got the chance to briefly shoot the shit with him I feel like we are best buds. In reality, I bet I faded quickly in his mind with all of the other crazy question asking fans)favorite runs. I decided to focus on some of my favorites. Well, since it is summer, I thought that favorite ice cream flavor would be a great starting point.

So, here is it.... Superman. So many flavors, so much goodness.... Yum, go get ya some!

HAPPY B-DAY ALICIA!!!!!

This a picture of Alicia & some nerdy girl last year on her b-day. We went skating. Alicia digs the skating and she is very stellar at it. In fact, a little girl was quite infatuated with her and was making autograph requests. On the other side of the rink, I was trying very hard for my bum not to hit the ice.
Today Alicia is 29. Hooray for the birthday girl! I hope you have a great day! If you see Alicia today, give her a b-day high five.

Fun With Hats at Katie B's Bachelorette Party!

Get Off Your Duff & Turn On Your Tele to....

"Swingtown" - CBS (yes, they now do have another show worthy of watching besides "How I Met Your Mother")
Thursday, 10:00 pm - Come on, Friday is the next damn day so don't pull that "I get up early to make a living" crap with me. DVR or old school VHS this bad boy if you just can't keep your eyes open or if your at the bar.

Hot cast, good story line, and the threat that basic cable is going to drop it in about 2 weeks because of the whole "too controversial" jazz. Better watch it before it defunks in a few months to premium!

A Fun Kind of Crazy

This weekend was a whirlwind of corn roasting at the rib burn off, a wedding, running, grading essays, more corn and more corn. It was a fun and exhausting weekend. More on that later. Got class stuff to prepare. I hope you are all beating the heat!

Some Sweaty Dudes and Dudettes

Here are some picts from the race this weekend. It was a steamy one, but the race went better than I hoped. The added bonus was that no one got submerged in the river during the canoe portion. 25th out of 76 ain't too bad for these ladies!
The following picts are of Jo, Jen and me before and after the race. The two boys are Mark and Matt, Jo's friends from work with were a blast to hang with over the weekend.