10k day!

so today was my 10k (6.2 mi) race... let's just say, um glad it's over! started off going up hill immediately which i didn't expect (didn't bother reviewing the race route), then it was drizzling a bit, worst of all my ipod konked out so i was left to run majority of the way fighting thoughts of me wanting to walk & singing songs in my head (actually glad it happened b/c can't bring ipod to 10miler). smoe went to the run w/ me so he saw me off & was there to meet me afterward... no no not at the finish line... but in the car, sleeping :)

lessons learned: (1)train, train, train; (2) stretch, stretch, stretch; (3) don't go out before a race over 3.2 miles! def shoulda went to bed earlier, but glad i saw smoe's friends, then went to (stood outside) layla lounge & stopped by redhead's bday get together b/c ran into folks i haven't seen in a while. i absolutely adore my friends, they're always up to something fascinating. i.e. redhead's gonna have his name in lights 1 day :); my buddy pedro who works for an embassy in dc was in new york last week for un meetings. i was super jealous until he told me he spent majority of his time in his country's embassy up there, but did have a chance to hear his president speak... apparently some journalists stopped in the lobby & wanted to talk to the president & he replied, you're attractive, africans like attractive females so you should have no problems getting to him... but aparently she never got to speak w/ him.

anywho, the rest of my day flew by as i ran some errands & finally went home bc had a blazing headache.

later met up w/ the 1 & only shrinking violet (her blog). after i picked her up we deemed it "no rules, just right" sunday & were off! i wanted to stop by adams morgan to get something fatty & chocolatey but decided to go thrifting instead, on our way we saw commotion in an alley off of u street (per request we just had to look into the situation)- apparently there was a shooting :(

on our way to the thrift store that didn't exist we passed another 1 & decided to stop there... along the way we had one of our whenever-in town-deep-elitist-mature convos covering essential topics, such as: "why georgia ave looks shady"; "who says 'honky'"; "why 'black parties' run out of liquor, but 'white parties' don't"; "reasons why she shouldn't dress up like a black lady to fit into a halloween party", etc.

my headache from this am is finally gone... probably due in part to the chunky monkey oreo shake i had from silver diner 2 hours ago. goodnite & good luck...

songs o' the day:
romeo (Basement Jaxx) ... another great song is broken dreams (Basement Jaxx) thanks to 1 of my bro's i discovered how awesome this song was and still is years later!!

skipping my morning cup o' joe??

allow me to reintroduce myself ... ok not really, but that songs in my head b/c i was listening to jayz all am as i was working it out on the treadmill!! (yes, yes i was running at 6am as i have that 10k in 3 days... better late than never right??)

bbc world news is the best thing to watch in the am, until i discovered msnbc's morning joe! bbc news is still amazing, but morning joe (think it took imus' old spot?) had a good mix of news & "news you can't use" (random stories) to hold my attention...yes, hold my attention :)

willie is great, joe is joe (a neo-conservative?), but mika seems perturbed about something... you may remember her from the ripping up paris hilton story but it seems like for the past few weeks mika's been a bit angry... this am her & joe were going back and forth about if cbs and/or cbs news knew about mccain blowing off david letterman to do a katie couric interview the same afternoon. after working out i found their banter a bit much for the tired, happy state i was in. which brings me to the title of the blog, think i may watch the show like every other day, i can't deal w/ condescending comments so early in the am... plus i like the bbc reporter's accents better!

outside of that so far so good on this (chilly) thursday morn. after being stuck in random traffic i was rushing to metro, and was told i was "fine as all outdoors" so that's always nice... then ran into a buddy who liked my hair, but not bush or the cbc (congressional black caucus, not canadian broadcast channel for you slowskis). he said he's going to crash an event this week b/c he "doesn't respect them b/c no one's stood up against the bailout bill or even come before america to explain what the bailout would mean for everyday folks"... he's offbeat funny, an intelligent kid, just didn't realize he had a radical side... we went on to talk about motorcycles, bikes (he would never ride his bike outside of takoma park b/c he may run into someone he knows & be embarrassed), some kids he found for me to adopt, etc. the usual banter...

songs of the day:
santogold's "anne"
justice's "dance".... this song rocks!! if you have nothing else to do you should check out the video for their song stress b/c it's 35% entertaining, 65% disturbing but an all around great, creative music video (click here to see it)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, lights out at Bowie High & baggy pants?!

i want chips ahoy chocolate chip cookies... guess i'll just settle for my powdered jelly filled doughnut!

oh yes, despite my cravings i'm still training for the army 10-miler (countdown has begun to oct 5th)... in fact i just signed up for a race (10k dash for dads) this sunday to jolt my body into race mode!

last nite in an attempt to get serious about life i finally attended my pg running group run. it was pretty uncoordinated as 5k & 10k training programs are starting this weekend, so tuesday nite was a fun run around the track at bowie high school... shout out to my little cousin who goes there :)

as i talked to 1 of the coaches that was actually there he mentioned how they usually spend about an hour or so running around the track, then leave as there aren't any lights around there!!! what high school doesn't have lights around their track?? after it started getting dark i decided to run one more lap then go home, as i didn't feel like being snatched up! (i'm an adult, who has time to be kidnapped? i had plans to meet smoe later, plus i had to work today.)

once in my car and reunited with padgekins (my cell phone) i called my cousin and asked him the deal with no lights. he said yep, bowie is real bootleg and they (obviously) don't have any night games. he also said they just recently got ac installed into the school!... no educational pun intended, but i guess it's true you can't judge a book by it's cover as the school doesn't look too shabby from the outside...

with this being said, who wants to join me in a bake sale to raise monies to buy his school some lights???

lastly, where does good police work end and fashion police work begin? is it that much of an eyesore to see someone with baggy pants on, that cities need to take action? are there a rack of stats i'm overlooking which juxtaposes baggy pants to criminal acts?? i'm personally amused b/c they walk funny (i.e. saw a little boy sagging skinny jeans in smoe's neighborhood, it was hilarious b/c he walked like someone from the wild west)... i guess not everyone is a amused (or liberal) as i .... Baggy pants crackdown goes national