'round these parts...

So yesterday evening, I went and hung out with Lloyd and his sister Jesika and other-Alex (Alex M, whom we all love), and it was beautiful... as soon as I stepped into the house, I was greeted with flying pillows, and a fairly long pillow-fight ensued. Alex had been hiding underneath this enormous mound of pillows on their ridiculously fluffy couch, from which he emerged suddenly...

... so we Talked About Stuff, like we normally do, and it was wonderful. Like a lot of us, Lloyd doesn't know quite what to do on coming to the end of his undergrad education... but it was wonderful to see all of them :) And later on this weekend, we might go see The Motorcycle Diaries, maybe. Or maybe I'll hold off on that.

Today, in the morning, the paternal unit and I hopped off to the annual Turkey Trot. I'd shown up with the intention of running the 5K version (about 3 miles, for the metric-impaired), but I opted to do the 15K instead, because, y'know, why not? So I did, and it was good. I felt pretty frisky; kept it at just under 8-minute pace the whole way, fairly steady. 1 hour, 12 minutes, a bit over nine miles. He did the 5K with one of his friends, and they got it done :) (also at the race were: the entire Newell family, Taylor D, and Mr. Brad C himself -- and he's just started at MIT)

... and that's that! Enjoy your tofurkey, kids!

"hurry up, please..."

- Remember Jamiroquai, back from the middle-90s? Oh, those heady days of relatively interesting network television and fairly good alterna-rock... and then some random funkiness like Forest For The Trees and Jamiroquai... (I've come to the conclusion that Los Amigos Invisibles reminded me, subconsciously, of this particular band. They're just more overtly forward, and as you might expect, more Latin-ish and less reggae-like)

- I might go back to Tech tomorrow, maybe in the evening. I need to get work done, like lots of it, and while I love being home, it's not super-conducive...

- Maybe a Jetta wagon? I like this idea, and Yaël has given me an "I like this idea too" datapoint. Alex M. had suggested it, actually, and he likes his VW.

- I don't know what I'm doing, like at all (neither in the general longterm nor in the specific), but I need to figure it out right quick. So:
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