I love our twisted Buffista phone tree. I just talked to Joe too.

I was just admiring the multi-time-zone organizational brilliance.

Drew, Joe, and I could not make plans with each other without Kristin.

When she still ived in Connecticut.

And Drew, Joe, and I lived about 3 miles from each other.

It is true. Okay now I'm sitting on a full stuffy plane that is still sitting at the gate with no explanation about why this plane has been sitting here for at least 10 minutes with everyone on board. My guess is the pilot left the keys in his other pants.

Trudy - lots of health~ma to your mom and as everyone said - coping~ma to you.

yes, much ~ma to your mother and to you, Trudy. I hope it's nothing serious and turns out to be treatable and preventable.

Happy Birthday, smonster!

Plane~ma to Drew. I'd say better that they find the issue @ the gate, then in the air. Maybe they are loading up on single malt! Can't hurt to try and get some.

So I am cracking whip on designer boy. He gave me a generic template to "cue ahead on my own thru cue xxx" Which would have been about 50 cues. Only, there was wav's for about 5 of them. So I came in early... for. NOTHING! Then he asked for a USB - iPod cable to charge his iPhone. I 'left it at home'. If he wants to fuck around on his iPhone when the show is in good shape. fine. But in the mean time, i got all of production saying "whats slowing you guys down?" I point to my left.

O ya, the iPhone.. spews a TON of RF. It's killing our clear-com. O ya, and it takes about 45 seconds of RF spew to sign off/turn off the phone. Interesting, for whatever reason. (also annoying with loud buzz n hums and clicks and what not)

/whine

I watched the History Channel's "Engineering Disasters" twice today. I asked what the class thought some common features in the disasters were, and one of my students replied, "The 80's."

I did try to rebut, but I'm just now realizing that I could have made the connection with a Republican president. Or is that unfair?

I need a moment of personal support.

I feel completely craptastic about making a decision I don't want to make.

The short of it is:

• Foot still a little bit swollen
• been swollen for about a month
• getting better with acupuncture treatments started this week
• team captain threatening to force me into a 'medical rollover', meaning I can do any event I want next year, but no event before the end of the year
• I could take an anti-inflammatory and and fake it through the 12 miles tomorrow and hope the treatments fix the problem before next week's 20 miles
• or, I could suck it up...swallow my pride and admit defeat this time around

I've never actually failed at a major goal like this. Seriously, never. It seems so silly, but I don't want the coaches to be covering their collective behinds by staring at my ankle every time I see them.

The upside is that nothing would really be lost except for my bib for the Marine Corp Marathon and the registration fee. All the fundraised money is already where it belongs and I get credit for it, whenever I complete an event.

I think I'd be alright this time. But everyone else seems to have doubts.

I take huge pride in my sheer strength of will, but am I being stupid by trying to finish this event...just because I can?

Somebody tell me what to do!

I've never actually failed at a major goal like this.

And as long as you don't just walk away, you haven't failed. You just need to adjust the goal. You have done that before. Did your walk across America go as you had planned? No, you had to change and adjust that goal and you still accomplished something. Same here - modify your goal. Even if that means extending the timeframe into next year. You are not giving up.

I take huge pride in my sheer strength of will, but am I being stupid by trying to finish this event...just because I can?

I don't know about stupid, but... you don't know what caused it, right? So it's a mysterious, chronic injury. Please don't take chances with it! It just sounds like the first twenty minutes of a Lifetime movie.