Fall running

After quite a while, I went running outside and it was a blast.
I had to miss two runs this week because I had what I thought was the beginning of shin splints. I also had some pain in other parts of the leg and decided to hold off on running outside. Finally today I felt [...]

Lacking passion

I found myself wondering if I lack passion.
Let me start from the beginning. Today while I drove back from the gym, I saw a lot of folks with American flags protesting the war. I would never do this even if I was strongly against the war. Maybe I have not seen anything I am really [...]

Our future on this planet

Sorry to touch such a heavy topic but today is blog action day and the environment is the topic. This is something I feel strongly about so I decided to write something brief today.
The first question is how we as humans somehow seem to not care about destroying the environment. One of the things that [...]

Fall – the best TV season of them all

Every fall, my roommate and I get giddy seeing the ads for all the new dramas etc that come out. It is our policy to watch all serials at least once – the exceptions are the crazy reality ones that come out every year. We do our best to add at least one more [...]

Book review – Interview with the vampire (Anne Rice)

After quite a while I read a book that I could not put down. A really well written book – if you have not read it and have some time, you should definitely read it. This book was recommended to me by a friend at work. When I picked up the book, the librarian also [...]

Chicago marathon

I was closely following the Chicago marathon this year (from the comforts of a friend’s home in Seattle) and was shocked to see that it got called off in the middle. That was till I learned that someone had died running the marathon. This was a really shocker – here was a relatively young 35 [...]