Quick hits bullet update

• Work has been was funny today on Friday. Not funny odd; funny like ha-ha. Hands down the best thing about my job are the people I work with. I love them but they are bizarre.
• The reason that post is all struck through is that I started it on Friday and am just now getting to finish it today (on my lunch hour).
• Are you a runner (or like me a stagger-er) and have an iPhone or an iPod Touch? I highly recommend iTreadmill. I wanted a pedometer-type thingie for my iPod so that I wouldn’t have to run on the track and could still pay attention to how far I’m running. This thing is great. Once you’ve calibrated it to your stride, you can use it to record your distance and your speed. You can also set it to tell you when you pass 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile or 1 mile. It’s not perfect but for less than five bucks I can keep track of how I’m doing and I can do while running (staggering) to my own music.
• Speaking of running, I keep on keeping on but I’ve backslid even though I’m running with less pain. (It still hurts some but I no longer limp when I’m done so I call that progress!) I can’t believe how slow going it is and realize how much I counted on seeing regular progress to keep me motivated. I’ve decided that running is a mind game and I need to let go of my need for progress and just run for the hell of it.
• My hits are up but google knocked me down two notches on my google pagerank. I think it’s because I have text link ads. But the text link ads allowed me to buy my kids their (very modest) Christmas presents last year so it’s a trade-off I had to make. Text link ads are tacky, I know, but so is handing your kids an empty box on Christmas and telling them to suck it.
• I‘ve had more caffeine today Friday at work than I’ve had in the last three days combined. I’m I was vibrating. Not in a good way.
• I love studying for the GRE! And Noah love quizzing me on vocabulary. I am especially loving this study book: Cracking the GRE by the Princeton Review. What I love about it is the attitude, which resonates with my unschooling homeschooling self because it’s about test strategy. The other two books are about studying, which is good, too, because they have a lot of practice tests for me to try-out my strategy skills.
• But the middle school math? I forget ALL OF IT. I’m really going to have to focus on that over the next couple of weeks because I want to take it at the end of this month. (So I can retake it in early October-ish.)
• I’m re-reading my whole Anne Tyler collection, which I haven’t done in eons. I was surprised to find that I don’t like a lot of her main characters this time around; I find them selfish and unreasonable. This wasn’t true last time I read her. I’m enjoying it though. It’s nice to finish a book and immediately pick up another one that has a similar tone but a brand new story. (I always wondered how she graduated from college at 19 and now I see she was homeschooled until she was 11. Homeschooling doesn’t always make for brilliant spelling bee champions or university savants but it does sometimes mean kids have their own educational schedules, that’s for sure.)

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