a bit to warm for me in fl right now.
possibly going to be down there in feb with bf for his yearly family reunion shindig. i think its somewhere in the keys though... not sure.
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a bit to warm for me in fl right now.
possibly going to be down there in feb with bf for his yearly family reunion shindig. i think its somewhere in the keys though... not sure.
I FINALLY got the call from the bee lab! I have an interview the week of Aug 20th! Wahoo! I was starting to get really bummed about not hearing anything. They were very enthusiastic about my coming for an interview. Whew! Now - to prepare the seminar. We've been having major morale issues here lately - this definitely help improve my mood. :)
Congratulations! That sure took a long time! Now you have plenty of time to get nervous. Did grad student hear from them?
So, I've been feeling extremely sorry for myself this week. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I'm really tired of being in the dumps.
Today I decided to take myself to lunch, and ended up at "the mall" (Don't even get me started on Westfield Shoppingtowns - talk about Stepford wives...) Anyway, first I went to Nordy's Bistro, but the line was long, and none of the specials appealed. I ended up at California Pizza Kitchen, with a Chicken Waldorf Salad and a glass of wine. Life is looking up.
Then I decided to go to Mervyns and check out the bras. Gawd. Big mistake, looking at myself half naked in a full length mirror. Should have taken a picture, that's enough incentive to keep me on the Weight Watchers straight and narrow. I resisted all temptations to grab one of the ginormous bras and wear the cup like a hat. :rolleyes:
Tomorrow I'm going to try and get my butt out the door and go for a ride. Then I will spend a huge chunk of time, getting Blue all cleaned up, so she can wear her new Banana Bag.
snap you poor thing! hope your not so down soon.
mmmm..... california pizza kitchen. miss that place. so good.
i think you should've put that bra on your head and danced around. would've made you feel a bit better.
Anticipation always gets the best of me, too. Postdoc didn't hear anything, as far as I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Snap - I've been in a blah mood all week, too. I think mine was a combo of coming back from gorgeous St. John's, not hearing about the interview (that ended today at least), and the crap going on at work. Everyone is constantly complaining about a few major events. Constantly. It wears on you after a while. I have been saying for 3 days that I was going to get out and run. Never did. Tomorrow morning - I ride! A good long ride!
FishJr is sitting on the floor next to me (protesting cleaning her room) and is making grumbling noises. That's her stomach growling because she "starving". The drama!
I'm having a good week at work. Almost halfway through my 13 day stretch. I forgot what my bike looks like...I renamed my student Napoleon Dynamite and constantly make him say things like "Yessssssss" and "Do the chickens have large talons?" I even make him perform for others. I think he is sort of insulted- he thinks ND is dumb. I don't think of ND as dumb- just odd and laid back. Definitely not dumb. Oh- this is because he talks EXACTLY like ND.
New radiologists starting again Monday- who will know nothing. I will miss the outgoing two- the one who is like the new chick on Reno 911, Mary Birdsong, and the guy that I faked blood poisoning on. Hopefully the two new ones will be as much fun. I also get a new student.
Sounding like rain out there- we were going to try to get the OTHER bike out for a ride- haven't had it out since Saturday. I want to try out my helmet!
I had a rare sighting of Russell Jr. tonight. Like half an inch of his head. (Glass lizard- lives underground- I see him once every few months, but continue to feed crickets on the hopes that he's in there somewhere...)
I think Cracker Chicken, our young Gopher Tortoise, has moved away. We are extremely sad about this. He never even said godbye. (He moved outside full time this spring, and dug a burrow, and lived in it happily for several months before moving on to greener pastures. We haven't seen him since around July 4th, and his burrow appears to be abandonned.)
Definitely raining.
Nothing much to say, but that never stopped me. While the heat here is nothing like CA (I think of you guys out there every day, hoping it will ease..), it is hot, and it makes people stupid, I think. The ride home from work was perilous. Lucky I'm a member of Team Danger! People wandering into the bike lane on foot, cars abruptly lurching to the right to get out of traffice jams, etc. Some good news: I'm seeing a lot of bikes on the street these days. Chicago is a pretty good city in which to ride. When the traffic's backed way up, though, you have to watch for the alleys and side streets. A driver will decide s/he can't take sitting there anymore, burning $3 of gas per minute in the SUV, and jerk the wheel to the right to get into an alley or side street.
fish, so glad to hear there's movement on the bee lab! I know you'll keep us posted.
Snap, sorry to hear about the down week. Those dressing room mirrors lie, man! Don't believe it! Get out and ride that beautiful bike. You'll feel better.
Nanci, I believe you are but a waystation for some of these beasts, and a good one at that. How are the torts doing? Funny that the birds abhor their lovingly hung bird homes. It's absolutely your perogative to make your student do ND imitations. Part of the price of professional training. Entertaining the teachers. We have a nurse at work who does incredible imitations of Kip and Napoleon. Spot on.
OK, off to ride to the lake and swim a bit. L.
CONGRATS FISH!! Yay!
Snap, sorry you are down in the dumps. I hope the weekend picks you up a bit!!
Thanks for the congrats ladies! My mood is definitely improved! And, of course, I'll keep you posted on my progress.
Lise - tonight FishJr said she wants to be a "person that helps get babies out of the woman's tummy". I kid you not, that's what she said. I thought you'd like that! She also wants to be an astronaut. So - she'll deliver babies in space!
:D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
What brought that on? How cool! And who knows what we'll be doing on the space station when she is old enough to be a midwife or doc! :D
When I was little I wanted to be a ballerina-astronaut.
I still kind of do.
CWRips-I'm happy to ship you some wine to Alaska-it'll have to wait until October though. PM me.
Lise-have you tried eating the sides of the tim tams off & drinking coffee through??
de deo deoeooeoe
HMMMMMMMMMMM! Tomorrow AM! Too late to drink coffee now! But I did have a Latte Tim Tam as a treat when I got home from work today. I must develop this new coffee drinking through a cookie skill...:pQuote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
ARGH...rugby game's on tonight & i have noone to watch it with....I don't want to be the lone chick at the pub watching the game...:(
ON the subject of book stores-Down the street from where I work there's a well respected non fiction bookshop that i love... They're hiring & the same salary as i'm on now. I am a bit leery of working at a small firm due to the new Industrial Relations law here in Australia but would love to work with books.
Ian supports me in applying for the position but am I nuts to work in retail?? Great hours(830-5pm..can't complain) & might help me in the near future as i'm seriously thinking about submitting an application to enter the Masters in Information Sciences (under library studies) program at one of the main uni's here....
thinking....c
Hi all, I'm back from my trip to Osoyoos where it was about 105 degrees every day, and, uncharacteristically, rarely cooled down below 90 at night. Despite the weather, a week on the beautiful lake beach was great - had good times with good friends, drank lots of wine, and margaritas, and shmirnoff ice and...
Nanci - the area where I was camping is almost a desert - summer temps are usually around 100 degrees but it's very dry. In Kelowna, about 2 hours further north, it's usually a few degrees cooler but our summer average temps are around 80-90 degrees for about 6 weeks with little, if any rain, unless there's a thunderstorm.
Anyway - I had to get up early to ride my bike because it was so hot, and ta da - I managed to do the entire 8 km Anarchist Mountain climb WITHOUT STOPPING once! I honestly didn't think I'd be able to do the whole thing without a break but I kept plugging away and made it to the top. The guys - ok, we're talking "old" guys in their 50's - have a top time of 35 minutes and I did the ride in 40 minutes for my first time! I was so stoked. Last year, I wouldn't even consider doing the ride - I could hardly ride the 5 km into town. What a change. :) Erik was great, he did the ride with me and stayed behind me the whole time so I felt very supported but not pressured. It gave me the strength to keep going. I am feeling very empowered now and can't wait to keep working at it so I can actually ride with, and stay with, the guys next year. :D :D :D
The other ride I did was a 50km rolling hill round trip to the next town. I actually did it last year on my old beat-up mountain bike. I'd never done any ride over 5 km and I thought I'd die slogging up what I thought were never-ending hills. I had to stop 2-3 times each way and it took us forever to get back to the campsite. This year Erik and I did the trip in well under two hours and managed to maintain a 32 km/h average on the trip back. Again, a huge change in my ability from this time last year.
So now I'm off to unpack and do laundry... Can't wait to sleep in my own bed tonight, in my air-conditioned bedroom...
Hey Barb,
Doesn't the ogo pogo live in osoyoos? Oh, I have friends there as well(no relation to the ogo pogo though...) but haven't heard from them in years. I'll have to track them down & send them a postcard.
Lise-i found this link for you...(tim tams)-go towards the bottom of the page & 'the info you need is there....
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/1...-tim-tams.html
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I just went and put my TimTams in the frig so they'll be ready later for a TimTamTorpedo! :D
I have no idea, but in the car the other day she asked me how the baby gets out of the woman's tummy. I almost wrecked. I told her I needed to pay attention to driving and we'd talk about it some other time. How on earth do you explain how a baby is born to a 4 year old? Especially a very perceptive one. Yikes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
I tried out my new SS smartwool socks today - they're even good in the summer! My feet only felt a little tingly (from the wool) when I stopped and they got sweaty. I like them!
So much bad stuff in the world. One of the women shot yesterday in Seattle is a member of my church triathlon team. I was already very upset about the shooting, then to find out someone in my "social world" is one of the victims has me just sick. I can't picture her (very big church, and I've been training with the Team Survivor team) but I am freaked.
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Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Ogopogo actually lives in Okanagan Lake, here in Kelowna. Personally, I think Ogie's just a couple of waves crossing each other but hey, if he brings in the tourists... :) Who are your friends? Maybe I know them....
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Hey, that store is down the road from me! I'll have to go check it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
KN, so sorry to hear about the shootings in Seattle. Keeping you all in my thoughts.
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fish--one of the important things about explaining birth to kids seems to be to stress that these things happen to grownups, not to kids, so they don't get worried that this will suddenly happen to them. I don't have kids, but I've talked to a lot of people, including kids, about how babies come out. We could PM if you want my thoughts! I'm sure you'll find a way that's just right for Miss Fishjr. :)
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The TimTamTorpedo worked! Whoo-hoo! And you do have to cram the cookie right in your mouth after one swallow of hot coffee. It goes from cold and hard to warm and mush very quickly. But PLEASE tell me that each one does NOT have 390 calories! The label says 390k for "energy". No way that means calories. Oh please, oh please...:p
k= kilocalorie - a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
kilo...so we divide by 1,000, and each TimTam has 0.39 calories? SWEET!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
uhmmmm--somehow I doubt my math just the tiniest bit. What is the relation between kilocalories and calories? (you'd think I'd know this, with two degrees in health sciences. Snicker away. I invite you. I deserve it. But this knowledge seems to have fallen into a deep crevase in my memory.)
Nanci, are you working, making that sweet overtime money?
Nanci, what you're talking about is a kilojoule... (Calories aren't that logical - they're not metric.)
Lise, probably the back of the TimTam packet is talking in kilojoules too (food labels certainly are in kJ on things manufactured in NZ). There are about 10 of them in a "calorie" (which I think is actually a kilocalorie, but is never called that in the nutrition world..?), so each bicky probably has 30-or 40-something calories.
Wait! :eek: I've lied:
1 Calorie [nutritional] = 4.1868 kilojoules
1 kilojoule = 0.238845897 Calories [nutritional]
So:
390 kilojoules = 93.149899685 Calories [nutritional] (Thank you www.onlineconversion.com.)
But surely Arnotts can't be trying to tell you that the serving size is one lonely TimTam? More power to anyone who can eat those things one at a time. :p
Thanks, DD. I liked it better when each bickie had 30 calories than when it had 93.149 899 685 calories. We'll round down and say 93. :p Although, that seems about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by DirtDiva
They did a study once where they gave men food items and asked them to estimate the calories. They had no idea. Women, however, could usually get it almost precisely by guessing!
Oops, sorry...
Yes, I'm getting OT right now.
Wow. I think I just set a world record for the number of edits for one message. :rolleyes:
I'm a major fan of the edit button myself.
Yep, they say one cookie is one serving. So far, I have been able to hold myself to one cookie per day. It was late last night when I looked at the "energy" per cookie. Good Lord, I thought. I must clarify this with the help of Thread Drift in the morning! :p
Nanci, when's your next ride in the Brevet series?
There is no such grammar as chocolate biscuit (sing.
There are only chocolate biscuits (plural)
Unless there is only one left in the packet - which is not a situation that one can imagine will last long enough to be talked/written/read or in any way ,shape or form grammar-ed about
I just spent the last hour, cleaning Bleu the Bike from tip to tail. Poor thing was quite filthy, she lives under the vent where the dryer blows. When at rest she normally wears a coat, to protect her delicate parts from lint and smutz, but I forgot to dress her last time. I'm a lousy mom.
Now she's shiny, no crud in her lovely chain, cassette looks almost new. I'll let her rest a bit, then return her tires and lube her chain. I have new brake pads too, I should put them on while I have her semi-dismantled.
***now, shall I get cleaned up myself and go hunt down some of these elusive TimTams......93 calories...thats 2 WW points. Hmmmmm***
I want a Tim Tam!!
I just did a 2 hour trail run/hike with my riding partner. She actually claimed to be tired, which is unheard of! Maybe she was just being nice (and she obviously was being nice to even go do this with me in the first place!). I will say the vigorous hiking/running works different muscles than cycling, so things that don't normally feel tired after a ride definitely feel tired after this.
It was cold, wet and foggy. If it is like this next weekend it will be perfect for the Tam double/Marin century.
That sounds great, MP. I actually like cold, wet, and foggy for anything approximating running.
The air was densely humid when Jamie and I went out for a run at 6 AM, but in the '80s already. Felt like breathing through a piece of wet felt. We were dripping sweat within a 1/2 mile.
I don't know how folks in So. Cal are holding up. It's "only" 91 here--feels like an oven.
TD reunion! (Or does there need to be a union first, before we can have a re-union?) My house for TimTams!
Grammar grinches: Today at the grocery store, a clerk pronounced fo-li-age as foil-age. OH! I thought! I must tell TE! :p
Cold, wet, and rainy. Oddly enough that sounds really inviting right now. It's so humid here that it just occasionally spits a drop of rain at you. That felt good this morning when I was out.
Our project today is to get the garage cleaned out. It never functions as a garage, but as a woodworking workshop and toy storage and bike storage. So far today, we've cleaned out the attic and donated a bunch of yardsale-y stuff to the local church. It feels good to get rid of the playpen, highchair, etc. Now, we can take stuff from the house and garage and put it up in the attic. Poor Mr. Fish is melting. Even with the clouds it's 94F.
Ohhhhh - remember my whining about my hot office? It turns out my thermometer was wrong and it was more like 85-90 in there. And now they've "fixed it". It was 63F in my office yesterday. :eek: That's a bit chilly, but beats 90F!
i ran yesterday for the first time without taping my leg. i did really good. ran as fast as i was last year. no pain. (knock on wood for it to keep up) i celebrated with a twix. ya real low on the calories there.:rolleyes:
Congrats! You soooo deserved that Twix! I'm sure you burned off twice that number of calories! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
ya i think i burned twice the amount, that's why i didn't feel too guilty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Anybody remember the movie, Jesus Christ Superstar? It came out the summer I turned 13 (1973). I saw it 12 times in the theatre. Ted Neely (Jesus) was touring in Tommy that year, and did an appearance at the theatre. I have his autograph somewhere.
Today I was looking for a CD, and pulled out the soundtrack. I know every word to every song. When we have that TD reunion, I can perform the entire rock opera, solo, if requested. :cool: I own the DVD, of course. This story still moves me so much.
About 10 years ago, I went to see it on stage. Ted Neely and Carl Anderson were touring with the company. Ted Neely couldn't perform that night. Carl Anderson was magnificent. He's since died of cancer. :( Ted Neely's understudy actually sang beautifully, with a better voice than Ted's, objectively. But I really regret not getting to see Ted and Carl sing together one more time.
Snap--pix of the lovely Bleu? Good work.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen