It’s been like 4 weeks without much exercise, something I really can’t stand. I’ve been able to sneak in a run here and there, but with this summer job that consists mainly of hiking, and the whole thesis research/writing thing, I’ve been out of my routine. Today I snuck in not one but TWO runs. Both were at a nice relaxed pace, which was good in a few ways. The best thing was that I didn’t feel like I hadn’t worked out at all. I’ve been on my bike trainer a few days and whatnot, but that feeling of being out of shape is really discouraging, so it was nice to gently get back into running without that discouraging I can’t do it feeling. I’ll sleep well tonight, that’s for sure. Oh, and my shin felt pretty much fine. woot woot.
This is Castilleja cinerea. It is also the reason I really like my job. This plant is federally listed as threatened meaning it is super uncommon. Woot!
I had no idea there was even a rule about trading in your clunkers. Frankly, where does the term “clunker” even come from. Even older cars these days generally don’t make a “clunk” sound. Allison’s car is brand new and its engine is actually even louder than mine, although that may just be the symmetrical all wheel drive and legendary subaru boxer engine. I always thought my car got bad gas mileage (23/29) and well, apparently not. It’s a 1999 and it gets the same gas mileage that Allison gets. Le sigh, it seems like in the 10 years since my car was made something could have improved.
While Hope has been lacking in the Vitamin D department, I’ve been bathed in it. My summer job (rare plant surveys) got me two full days out in national forest hiking around checking out plants. Yep, I think I’m full up on vitamin d. As a matter of fact, I think that I should start bottling it and selling it in the pacific northwest.
I had to get a smog check yesterday. I have a whole week to get my registration paid for/filed, but let’s be honest, with the way the DMV works sometimes, it’s better to be early on stuff like this. There is apparently a ban on smog check stations in my city, which means I had to basically just drive down a road until I saw a smog check station. I had a few written down, but how many smog check stations actually have their names posted? They generally just say “Smog Check” in a big ugly sans-serif font (definitely not helvetica). Well let me tell you, first that my car passed smog, and second that the guy that did the check was wacky. He was sleeping in a chair when I walked into the place, and while having voted for Ralph Nader, only sleeps at night because we have nuclear bombs. Yes, he was a wacky guy, and chatty. Usually I’m not the kind of person that gets into conversations with folks like this, but what was I to do when I was the only one in the place? Let’s just hope that the place actually did submit my info to the DMV. At least it was entertaining?
I also overheard an awesome conversation in TJ’s yesterday, but of course, I forgot it by this morning. More on that later if I can remember it.
So Hope’s an aspiring musician. She has lots of friends on facebook, but she needs your help. Hope wants her own special URL on facebook, and the only way to do that is if you, yes you become her fan. I’m already her fan, so I don’t want to hear no lip. Go to facebook, and while you are checking the status updates of people you no longer talk to, become a fan of Hope Roth.
So Hope had an awesome and semi-comical encounter with a bat today. Frankly it reminded me of one of my favorite movies, The Great Outdoors. John Candy and Dan Akyroid have to deal with a bat in a similar encouter that also includes a bat flying around and some fantastic costumes, as they run around with wicker garbage cans on their heads (presumably for protection) and one with two brooms taped handle to handle and the other with a tennis racquet. As you can assume, hilarity ensues. I’d throw a link up, but it’s not on the internets in any legal form.
it turned out not to be. . . oh well. . .
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June 22, 2009 8:12 pm | 
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