Month: October 2008

  • work for a relatively small lab company – 25 people or so. I’ve been
    here for about a year and a half now and while there are days that it
    is stressful and I hate it, I really do enjoy what I do as well as
    really appreciating the benefits. Now, since we’re small and we don’t
    actually make money (we have a wealthy benefactor who keeps us in the
    money usually), closing is a concern we’ve had before but…
    eesh, now I’m sure you’re thinking the economy…but not so much. I
    actually WISH it were the economy as that would be less upsetting.
    We got called into an emergency meeting by the CEO, whom we all know
    fairly well, to tell us that he (the CEO) has esophageal cancer that
    they just found on Tuesday and that it has metastasized (SP?) and
    spread to his liver, kidneys and lymph nodes. It is inoperable and he
    has already decided he won’t do radiation treatment or chemotherapy.
    They are going to try some tumor target therapies….but we’re talking
    months….
    ANd while I’m upset enough about this as I know him and he’s a very good person and no one deserves to die like this…
    part of me is TERRIFIED about my job. This CEO is the connection to our
    wealthy benefactor as well as the passion and the motivation behind
    almost everything we do. Without him….I just don’t know what the heck
    we are going to do…
    And I feel guilty about being concerned about my job when he’s talking about tying up loose ends before he dies…


  • First 5k Results (out of 315 total runners – fastest time was 16:28):


    Place
    Name                      Ag Div/Tot  S No.   Time    Pace 

    =====
    ========================= == ======== = ===== ======= =====

    133 J*****
    R***               33   9/17   M  1291   30:39  9:52
    172 KELLY
    R***                28  16/38   F  1290   33:52 10:54

    I ran. But I was careful because of my stupid knee.
    But hubby beat the shit out of me with a very stiff and impressive better than 6mph average pace.

    My time would have been better had I not aborted early because I thought the end of the race was in a different spot. Ah well! Next time.

  • Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures
    see Sarah Palin pictures

  • So I’ve been training to run 5ks this year for about 3 or 4 months. My first race is Saturday October 18th.


    I missed about 10 days at the gym due to a really busy workload and a lot of other excuses.


    I ran again on Saturday the 11th – 5 miles in an hour. And guess what I did? I fucked up my right knee. Or at least, I have raging knee pain anytime I run or go up (or down) anything, including stairs or hills. Some internet poking around leads me to believe that I’ve got some problems with my iliotibial band. ITBS sounds all fancy but mostly, some tissue that goes over my quad and attaches at the hip and the knee. Some sort of inflammation that is made worse by certain activities (like running or going up stairs). Stupid body. This is the same side of my body that has my bad hip (from when I got ran over as a child) and my bad foot (from when a horse stepped on it when I was a child). Can I just get a new right leg from the hip down?


    Looks like I’m walking my 5k on Saturday as the best cure for this problem is rest and avoiding the activity that caused the problem in the first place.