This is possibly one of the best legalize-gay-marriage ads I've seen. [link] Although the first ten seconds or so seem more like one the Maine tourism ads.

That's a really nice ad.

I'm glad you mentioned it again, Jesse. Forgot to click it earlier. Nice!

sarameg, maybe you should hydrate more? I get sore muscles if I work out without drinking enough water.

Shin splints are about overdevelopping or overtaxing a calf muscle OR it could be a tightening of you plantar fasciitis. Stretch before you walk and after.

That's my unscientific opinion.

I'm trying a different wiki service this year for my class wiki. Interesting, but the accounts are a pain in the butt.

Instead of the usual grade offerings, I contemplated these grades instead: Epic Win, Win, Meh, Fail, Epic Fail.

That's funny, Kat. I would love it.

That ad is awesome. Go, Maine.

I'm very, very hydrated. 2+ liters during the work day. I'm wondering. It might be stupid hormones (my muscles and joints get funky around this time of the month. Knees will unexpectedly collapse on stairs, hips get wonky.) Anyway, starting yesterday, stretching, even all day at work. Don't like it though. Like the rolling rhythm and everything locking up 1/2 mile in means I fight the 1/2 mile back, no rhythm, cranky. I haven't had shin splints since I used to run. 22 years ago.

Anywho, I'm giving it a break tomorrow, I think. Going to try the pool. I just want to be able to still do my 10 miles over the weekend. Weather is lovely.

True. The funniest bit to me is when the male hummingbirds get so busy defending their territory that the female hummingbirds sit contentedly together on the feeder eating, and the male hummingbirds never actually get to eat.

There are many species in this kind of situation. The most extreme may be the antechinus, where pretty much the entire male cohort drops dead from exhausstion and stress by the end of the mating season - having most likely lost much of their hair and teeth. On the plus side, their testicles swell to be roughly the size of their head.

shin splints

Racewalking coach Jack Bray [link] always said that shin splits were from reaching too much, that speed in walking should come from a faster turn-over, not from reaching/stretching your forward leg to gain a little ground. Try it, see if it works for you.

There's an art reception just down the hall. I have a glass of champagne, sushi, cheese, homemade cookies, and someone's playing a really nice jazz bass set in the lobby. I'm not getting much work done, though.

Radio talk show guy, on the Obama speech to schoolkids:

And Chris Stigall, a Kansas City talk show host, said, “I wouldn’t let my next-door neighbor talk to my kid alone; I’m sure as hell not letting Barack Obama talk to him alone.”

Huh? [link]