January 2009
11 posts
Frozen snot
Well, we did it. 5 DFMC New York runners, along with 4,995 other lunatics tackled the Manhattan Half Marathon today at 8am. When I left the house at 6:30am, the temperature read 14 degrees. ouch.
Truth be told, it was not so bad. Great run - two full Central Park loops — 13.1 miles. I’m not used to the hills, so I was not totally prepared, but I made it and it felt great! Met the DFMC team for...
Bush Street signs taken over by Obamarama →
“My kind of defamation” - Jen McAnaney 1/23/2009
Rick, the USPS savior
An email from Jan, 1/21/2009: Thanks once again for your thanks on the cookies. But while it was a big project, it was a fun one. Truly, I loved it and so did AN. One final story about it: I set up the 10 boxes for automatic carrier pickup from my front porch for yesterday morning. (Mailed Calvin’s at the post office automatic kiosk.) Left work at 4:00 yesterday to pick up David and...
“Thanks be to Rick. He might as well have ridden up on a white horse.”
– Jan Nielsen, 1/21/2009
WOOOOOO WHOOOO!!!!!!
SO many reasons to celebrate today - where to begin!?
1. BARACK OBAMA IS OUR PRESIDENT! Hippity horray! I missed this, but did you hear that the entire crowd started singing “nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, gooood byeeee…” when our former President, George Bush, stepped into his helicopter to be shipped back to Texas (where he belongs..now for the love of God, keep him there)? So...
Team NYC
As many of you know, this evening marked the official start to my training. I met with 5 other DFMC runners who live in NYC for dinner and it was such a delight. I am going to be running in some terribly fabulous company!
Megan - born and raised in NYC, her parents have had the same apt in NYC for 38 years! She’s applied to Master’s programs all over the country for speech pathology...
