Three more days...

...until I run a freaking 10K with my big sister in Charleston! Aaah!

I'm so much more excited about this one than I was about the 5K. The 5K was so scary and I was so stressed out about so many other things and the fact that Megan was progressing so much better than I was was intimidating me and ruining my life, but this one...it's scary, but in a completely awesome, wonderful, inspiring way.

Tomorrow is like my Friday at work, which is extremely exciting news. I love my job, but it's hard being chained to a desk for 9 hours. Or 10, depending on how you look at it. And everyone loves a 3 day weekend!

I'm going to sleep in for a half hour on Friday (which is kickass news) so I can get on the road for Charlotte at about 7:15-7:30ish, and then Meg and I are going to ride together to Charleston. It's her favorite city in the world (well, maybe aside from Venice) and it's right up there for me, along with New York and Stratford-upon-Avon (which isn't a city, I guess, but whatever). It's gorgeous and walkable and filled with amazing restaurants that my sister happens to know inside and out.

Tomorrow is going to go by so slowly!



Oh, and before I go...the incredibly super sweet people at the dinner theatre thing I did earlier this year got me a present! They got me the absolute best thing possible at this point in my life...a freaking Barnes & Noble Gift Card!

So I went a little bit nuts this weekend.

Eric Alterman, "Why We're Liberals"
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: "The Invention of a Human"
Joshua Ferris, "Then We Came to the End"
Nick Hornby, "A Long Way Down"
Stephen King, "Lisey's Story"
Tracy Letts, "August: Osage County"
John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"
Alice Walker, "The Color Purple"


I finished August this morning...guuuuuh. When I saw the show in NYC, it took like an hour for my heart rate to return to normal. It was one of the most intense and memorable and phenomenal theatrical experiences I've ever had. So needless to say, reading it was pretty...all of those things.

I'm about halfway through A Long Way Down. Nick Hornby is absolutely brilliant.


Then We Came to the End is next after that, followed by East of Eden. I can't decide if I want to Netflix the movie before I read the book. My philosophy is usually to see the movie first before I read the book, that way I won't sit through a movie resenting it for not being as good as the book - which of course, is completely impossible. Has anyone seen it? Thoughts?



Ack I'm running 6.2 miles on Saturday and I'm frightened!