I see it...just a small ray...but its there!

I'm getting close. I can tell. My eyes twitch from lack of sleep. Neurons won't stop firing. The printer is hating me. I am hating James, Plato, and Rousseau. Emotions are running high. I'm telling you...its getting close... da da da... the light at the end of the tunnel! I can catch just a glimpse of it on the right day!

Wow, I'm so dramatic. Really though, after tomorrow, I just have to finish a paper about the role of pre-race anxiety among marathoners and write a paper about projectile motions and magnitudes of force. Then, I'M DONE!!!!! Whew. What a semester.

Brad and I both raced the mile at the Harvard Invitational yesterday. We were both pleasantly surprised at how fast we ran given that (1) Brad isn't in mile shape and (2) I'm not in any kind of racing shape. I ran the time that I usually run at the beginning of my indoor season.

Joey, the cat, has poop stuck to his butt. He is too fat to clean himself there. I have to take him to a fancy schmancy cat salon every 6 months to maintain his gorgeousness. That is on my post-papers radar.

Luke comes into town on Friday. I'm so excited. He is staying for 1 week. We're spending the day in Manhattan on Saturday - he has never been and Brad wants to go to the Planetarium! On Sunday, I'm dragging him to the Greater Boston Track Club annual holiday party (he doesn't know this yet! Sorry Luke!). Then, during the week, we're going to hit up an African exhibit at one of Boston's finest museums, hit up a few other museums, have some delicious lunches in town, do some Christmas shopping, and just hang out all week.

Just a short update for now. Back to kinesiology!

'Twis the month before Christmas and all is crazy!

Yesterday, I went into a party store to pick up gingerbread cookies for some kids I know and the place was overwhelmingly packed. It was swarming with people. This was at 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon. People were buying Christmas cards, Christmas cakes, Christmas paper, Christmas balloons, Christmas cookies, Christmas bows, miniature Santa Clauses, Hanukkah stuff galore... It was crazy. I wanted 3 cookies. Just 3. I would have gone somewhere else once I saw how crowded the place was but this place has the best cookies in town. Good thing the kids LOVED them.

Thanksgiving was great. Brad's mom and stepdad came into town and we had a blast. I found a happy balance between sweating over my laptop and 20 gazzillion paper/projects and spending some relaxing time with the family. We put up our Christmas tree, drank egg nog and Port, and watched Christmas movies. You'd have thought we were a bunch of overgrown kids. Hmm...maybe we are...maybe we all are...

We saw a hawk suffocate a pigeon with one hand and then fly off with it in its beak. That was strange.

Brad PRed yesterday. Ran a 16:01 5k. Yay.

Pictures to come. Found my camera. Well, Brad found it.

Luke comes into town soon!!!!!!!! 2 week!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!