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Not surprisingly I recently received some anonymous feedback on my "What sexy is all about" post criticizing me for being weak and insecure for posting such drivel. As with most bad stuff, my natural reaction was to disregard and move on, so I deleted the comment without much consideration. But then after a while I started thinking: I have a strong tendency to just “look the other way” when bad stuff comes up and I have a whole elaborate internal avoidance system in place (as I think most people do in North American culture) to deal with all the negativity we are bombarded with on a daily basis in order to pretend bad stuff isn’t real, or at least, "it isn’t happening to me." Lately, however, I’ve been questioning this avoidance system; avoiding just doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore. Since the point of the original post was specifically to challenge myself not to look the other way about something that irritated me and find a better way to make sense of...

Anyone who knows me, knows I LOVE notebooks. And now anyone who reads my blog also knows. These are my new favourites!!

What is ‘potential'? It is a perceived forecast of results that is generated both internally by the athlete and externally by peers, parents and experts. It’s not a guarantee. It’s not really REAL. Because it's not something you can hold and touch; it is always something you struggle to grasp, and this inability to pinpoint exactly what it is can be both a curse and a blessing. Getting this balance in sync is the entire name of the game. Hope is an emotion that you tend to push aside...I don’t have to rely on hope. 'Great things happen to people who make great things happen to themselves.' Simon Whitfield said that after he won the Sydney Olympics in 2000. We train too hard to hope that we can win.

Recently I reaquainted with an old friend of mine from highschool who asked me if I was dating anyone. I pleasantly reminded him about how difficult I am to get along with :) and he promptly replied... (of course, first by agreeing, but then qualifying it) with "You're a busy lady, so whenever you are ready to fit someone in then you will!!" Irrespective of whether or not this is true or this is just something polite to say to 'career-driven single women'. This has catapulted me into some reflexive thought about the people in my life (past, present, etc). The people that come, and go, and stay, and the ones (both successful and not) who basically work their way in despite my complete and total lack of effort or awareness... hmm, perhaps that last statement essentially covers everyone :) ... but most importantly, all the people that actually PUT UP with my "difficultness." My friends are awesome. I have the best friends . People that so ...

It's official!! At approximately 6:15ish this evening I legitimized my expertise - becoming a specialist of evolutionary adaptation theory, primate cognition methodology and hominoids. What does that mean exactly? Go ahead, ask me anything about the evolution of intelligence in apes.... it's all about the hands! :) Just another thing to check off my list of things to do: --Take the scariest, most uncomfortable exams of my life. CHECK

Good question... ...probably somewhere that way.

There's nothing like gathering up all your personal belongings and cramming them into a trailer in a shadeless parking lot on a balmy 35 degree day of sweltering heat and humidity. Oh the joys of Carbondale. I have to say, after 5 years of shacking up in the Chateau #3, no matter how happy I am to be "temporarily permanently" moving out of Carbondale, I was still a bit misty eyed to see my place so barren on my last night there. Even though Carbondale is not my favourite place in the world, I really did create a nice little "Canadian Haven" for myself to hangout in... or hideout in... to help pass the time while I've been down there for school. Moving is hard work - with all the sorting, organizing, stacking, packing, taping, labelling, carting stuff around, loading things in then taking them all out when you've found something else that should've gone in first, re-loading, re-positioning, trying to balance the weight in the trailer; and then final...

The title of this blog is a note that has been posted on my wall for a while now. At the time I had to skip out on my office hours to run to the International Student Centre to get my tax packet and my signature for travel, so I can not come back next year (take that C'dale), and then drop off some scantrons at Instructional Student Services for my class' midterm. fhhhghghghghghg Get your own blog Juancho !). It seemed fitting for this blog also :) Well after two weeks of not so good workouts and slogging through wet runs, longs swims and limited bike rides. This week I finally kicked out some good runs at faster paces then ever for my outdoor times - dropping my average run pace 10 seconds, and finding a convenient "add on" section of road to include in my lake running route. Splendid splendid. Last week I thought intensively about how good the forest smells after it rains, and tried to remember if the rainforest in Thailand ever smells as good as the mixed evergr...

Note: this list is in order of importance (1 being least and 10 being most)

I have arrived in smalltown USA, once again. Everything appears to be as I left it. Made it to school to meet with my people, get the updates... turns out nothing happened while I was gone... yup that sounds about right :) Still settling in, just got some groceries... NEW SHOES ARRIVED, and they are FANTASTICO. Still need to unpack, put things back into place, and then back to the grindstone with writing and training.