Saturday May 19 |
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| Event: Billygoat
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| Around Nahant, and errands in Cambridge
Isabel is coming down with the sore throat that took Dave out early last week. The illness hit Dave pretty hard, so I'm quite concerned about Isabel's prospects for tomorrow's Billygoat. Just the kind of additional handicap we really don't need.
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| C • ailments 1 |
Friday May 18 |
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Aaaah |
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| OK, my friends, I need some help.
My totally awesome Italian roommate G needs a job.
Any suggestions?
He has a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies; his thesis was on next-generation multimedia wireless networks (specifically, MC-CDMA technology). He spent six months at the University of Wisconsin in 2005. He is an experienced software developer. He has built software for businesses (in the finance, advertising and tourism sectors) and for orienteering organizations. |
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| C • No job but 3 |
Thursday May 17 |
| Bicycling 4:00 [1] | |
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| geez. |
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| So I got up before 4 this morning (with no alarm, since I'd accidentally set the watch to go off at 3:30 *pm*; must have woken due to internal anxiety) to deal with some overdue reviews and related things. Because it was so early and I wanted to be alert, I got an un-decaffeinated ice coffee at DD. And boy! how exciting! I started getting all these random ideas, the kind you shouldn't act on until you've calmed down and thought them over, but I acted on them anyway. I signed the soccer team up to march in the Memorial Day parade! I called London to convince to my editorial staffer to write personalized email to all 43 conference presenters! And here's the thing I'm most concerned about - I contacted the Cambridge Chronicle suggesting they do an orienteering story, to spread the O gospel about this "wonderful" [said I] sport! I proposed they cover Izzy doing the Billygoat, or the orienteering projects in school, or the elite CSU orienteers! And then I actually got a call back from the Chronicle just hours later, and we've arranged a photo shoot for tomorrow afternoon at Fresh Pond and I am concerned that Isabel is going to KILL me. And what about Rachael - we decided that she won't do the goat after all, but I've been feeling guilty about discouraging her - and now that she's missing a chance to be in the paper, will she feel really bad? And will Isabel feel pressured - did I oversell this "she's been training for years to run this elite race" thing? Maybe it will be good for her, like that pressure when you are at bat, and you get to learn the experience of failure under scrutiny. Arg! Moral: THINK before EMAILING. (Or, alternatively: GO FOR IT! Live life to its FULLEST!) Oo, oo, idea for a product: email program that holds on to your emails for a set time (like the amount of time it takes to sober up) after you hit "send" so that you can go back and change/delete if you have second thoughts... |
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| C • caf-decaf 3 |
Tuesday May 15 |
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
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| work, school, work, soccer practice |
Monday May 14 |
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
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| Isabel and I biked to school. It took us about 24 minutes, I think. In comparison, our walk/jog took 32 minutes. The bike route was a bit longer.
Then I biked to work. On the way I came across a free breakfast for commuter bicyclists. I slowed down and gawked, but since the breakfast consisted of sugar & caffeine, I didn't stop. |
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
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| To school to pick Isabel up, then back home along the river, then to work. Outrageously beautiful spring day, all lilac-y. |
| Bicycling 12:00 [2] | |
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| Home from school potluck on Dave's bike. |
Sunday May 13 |
| Orienteering race 1:14:00 [1] | |
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| Memory-O at Hammond Pond with David and Isabel. I love Memory-Os. I don't think I've done one before. It took us a few legs to realize we really needed to pay attention and study the map. We split up responsibility for remembering various things along each leg. David didn't like pace-counting because he couldn't think of anything else. Both kids were into following a compass bearing. Isabel came up with a good plan for one leg - the trails got pretty confusing, so we just followed along the edge of a big swamp instead. Unfortunately, I got annoyed with David for having a negative attitude and yelled at him toward the end, which was upsetting to both of us.
Afterward, I convinced (in one case bribed) the kids to do another course on their own, and they rocked! David did the white course in 15 minutes, and beat everyone else who'd done it! Unprecedented! He was psyched. |
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| C • Mother's Day 2 |
| Running 33:00 [1]3.0 mi (10:59 / mi) | |
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| bridge ckt w/dave |