The Tests Begin

What can I say?

What I'm reading: Various class notes
What I'm running: 2nd 20 mile run this week.
What I'm thinking: Time to get serious about my career.

On a Training Schedule at Last

I'm using Hal Higdon's intermediate 1 schedule joining it at week 13. Today is a 5 mile run at a comfortable pace. I think that probably means about 8:45 miles for me.

What I'm reading: Brain Rules
What I'm running: See above
What I'm thinking: It can be painful to see those you love struggle especially if you think they blame you for some of their difficulty.

Relieved that Financial Aid Finally Showed

The title says it all. I think the financial aid office must be overwhelmed because I wasn't the only one who was sweating how I was going to pay.

What I'm reading: Brain Rules
What I'm running: 2 days of rest (one recovery from13 miles Sat. night and one for Yom Kippur)
What I'm thinking: Life is good, but I should really try to accomplish more. Also, there are a lot of engaging and/or funny writers doing blogs. Unfortunately, I'm not one.

1 Day of Continuous Posting

What I'm reading: Pigeons
What I'm running: 6 miles run/walk on the treadmill
What I'm thinking: I really should have done something to get my research project started this summer.

It will catch up to me

Summer is here finally. Last quarter the prediction that my brother has been repeating for many years finally came true. If I don't study, it will catch up to me.

Patients vs. Customers

One of the problems with US healthcare is that we see ourselves as consumers of healthcare and not patients. This works to our advantage when the object is to minimize paternalistic/maternalistic explanations of choices. Not spending time explaining option is not the solution. On the other hand, a lot of expensive, unnecessary treatment happens because the healthcare system is unwilling to pushback against a customer.

Dennis Loves Me

My naval-gazing apparently has a fan who is, appropriately enough, an accountant. Anyway, an actual accounting was accomplished today as my taxed finally got filed. I've had them done for over 5 weeks, but was hoping that, before I filed, I could clear up the bureaucratic snafu that will likely have California deducting a parking fine and penalty from a ticket I already paid.