A day of hardcoredness

After the marathon in October, I'd been keeping most of my long runs under 10 miles. It's nice after you've been hardcore training, that is to say running 15-20 miles on a Saturday morning, to cut it back a bit to a nice steady 8 or 9. It feels easy, yet still still long. Today though, not only did I up my miles to the no-she-didn't double digits at a whopping 10 miles! I also ran said 10 miles at sub 10 minute pace! 9:45 to to be exact. This is good for me. Real good.

So good that after my run I ate all this:




Seriously, I did. And yes, that is fried chicken atop a waffle drizzled with honey mustard and sprinkled with powdered sugar, with mac and cheese on the side. I know!

There's a newish chicken and waffles restaurant in Downtown Durham called Dame's Chicken and Waffles. If you don't know, chicken and waffles is mostly a southern soul food phenomenon of deliciousness made trendy in the recent years. I mean, Snoop Dogg, Gladys Knight, Ashton Kutcher, Charles Barkley, and Shaq have all been spotted downing chicken and waffles within the last year. Gladys even owns her own chicken and waffles diner in Atlanta.
We were all skeptical of this combination; but it proved worthy of it's laud. The perfect meal, really. If you live close by, go! Like, stop what you are doing right now and go, preferably following some kind of exercise so as not to feel total guilt and remorse as a result of the debauchery of this meal.
I might see you there; I'm just waiting until I'm not full anymore so I can go back and try to jerk chicken and waffles with spicy hot BBQ sauce. Woah.

Josh Radnor, I think I love you.

At first I thought you were just some second string sitcom actor, doing a slightly funny job on a slightly funny show. The straight man to Neil Patrick Harris' hilarity, you seemed like any ol' New York actor to me. See, here you just look, well, kinda boring.

Then, I found out you played The Graduate and I gained a new respect for you. Slowly, you and How I Met Your Mother won me over. You got funnier and funnier, and your talent began to show. Episode after episode, I found myself chuckling at your "normal guy playing the dating game" routine. After all, somebody has to be the straight man. And as with any show, once it gets a little momentum, even the straight man becomes funny. See Friends.



Now I find out you've written, directed, and starred in your very own film! Not only did you do this, but your film looks quite good and it did very well at Sundance. I am extremely stoked to see it*. The the trailer can be viewed here. A bunch of people just trying to figure out life and how to be happy- I love movies like this!

Just look at you... Directing.

I think I'm in love. Platonic imaginary artist love, of course.



*That is to say IF I ever see it. As the movie release gods have not been too kind to us here. Withholding Blue Valentine from me... so wrong.

I'm bad

So we officially had 2 unexpected "snow" days. They were glorious. I never knew that I would appreciate snow days so much just coming off a break. But I did. I do.

Today we go back, usual schedule, and all I can think about is how awesome it would be to have one more day off. I'm bad.

It's just a testament to how easily spoiled one can become.

I think I just need to get back into the routine? Maybe. Or figure out a way to work from home? Yes. A couch commute.

The ultimate put down

What do you do when you are reading a book and you come to the conclusion that you no longer want to be reading the book? Do you power through and finish, give it another chance, hope that the trajectory of the story somehow miraculously changes in the second half? Or do you throw in the towel and get going on something that you do want to be reading? Putting a book down is hard. A part of you feels like you are a loser or something. Like something about you couldn't quite cut it with this book. Maybe you're not smart enough for this book. Maybe you are too smart for this book. Or maybe it's just not your thing. Regardless of the reason, I want to believe that it is ok to put a book down. And so I will.

I hereby put it down.

After all, doesn't the expression "I just couldn't put it down!" mean anything?

An unexpected (snow) ice day...sort of

Things done of note today:

1) coffee
2) egg and cheese bagel over o brother where art thou?
3) (snow) ice walk with dogs
4) coffee
5) soup
6) many episodes of how I met your mother
7) couch
8) snack fest 2011 including pretzels, cheese, bread, crackers and cookies
9) Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
10) beer and scrabble
11) blog

An eventful day I'd say.

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Must see...

Dear people who decide to not release movies where I am until a long time from now or what feels to be an extremely long time, but could just be another week or so,

Please release Blue Valentine in North Carolina. I need to see it. I need to see the degeneration of Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams' on screen marriage. I need to see the debatable NC-17 worthy sex scenes. I need to see a film with hipsters acting their asses off.

Please.

Sincerely yours,

Me

getting out

I know it is my first day back to school with students. I know that I should be excited to see them. I know that I should be refreshed and raring to go. But, at the announcement of an early release today due to snow and freezing rain I am ecstatic!

Yipeeeeeeee!