¡No soy ningún mentiroso!

oniugnip: more or less a bulleted list of semi-unusual internet happenings and announcements that I'm going to go do work now!

- Dr. Tran is the heartwarming story of a young boy from a village in southeast asia getting a square thwap across the face with the trout of western media culture. He says he's not really a doctor, but you'll have to be the judge of that. The first one is great, but my favorite is Dr. Tran in: Roybertito's! ¡This cheese is burning me! (watch for the Lucky Charms!)

- Elephant's Dream is this really interesting short film (rather calmer, with less shouting in Spanish) done as a community process... it's super-pretty, and it has mechanical birds flying all over the place. And this one room where the floor is typewriter keys that come up to meet people's feet where you're about to step. Also: maybe you can explain to me the plot.

- Aight, time for work!

You should come out next week!

Track meet!

Team oniugnip didn't set any land speed records, but for doing almost no sprinting for the past few years, it wasn't s'bad.

400m: Didn't have a good idea where I was, so I ran in the Very Slow heat, went out thinking "why isn't anybody coming with me?". It turns out that one gentleman must've been drafting, because he busted out with like 100m to go and burnt me (think an african-american version of Coach Z; ie, me in 20 years). Second place, 61 seconds! (in highschool, I would do it in like 57; maybe I'll beat that in two weeks...)

1500m: Everybody's favorite "not quite the mile" event. I was a little nervous, having never raced a mile-like event in competition. And still a little tired from the 400. Went out medium-okay, got a little slow and achy, out-sprinted somebody out of spite at the end. About 5:55. I'll do better next week, with a clearer sense of what it means to race the mile. I can't quite conceptualize racing a 5K in a non-roadrace situation.