If today is any indication, I will spend 2011 running races, chatting up (but not asking out) cute women, napping, overeating a little bit each day, and writing blog posts.
Setting aside the bad parts of 2010, I did achieve a few things that I’m proud of. I kept up my D&D campaign. I spent much more time with my friends than I have in the past. I learned how to cook chile verde, black beans, and tamales. I kept my promise to run a race every month —
That promise was never really in doubt, except at the end of July. My once-promising relationship had broken up, and I was feeling down in the dumps, and there was less than a week left in the month. I remember thinking, Oh, crap, I never signed up for a race this month! and I despaired. But when I looked at the calendar, I found a race that coming Wednesday. Races are normally on Saturday or Sunday, but this one, in the middle of late summer, was on a Wednesday evening. An odd choice. A hot race. I didn’t have to compete, though, I just had to show up. So I signed up for that one, and then one the following Sunday on Wildwood Trail, a 10K. It was ambitious, and it severely injured my knee for weeks afterward, but it got me back to running.
— and I paid off all my debts.
So there’s been some good to come of all this. I still miss my friend Kevin who died way too young, and I still worry that my string of broken relationships means that I’m incapable of being actually intimate with someone, and I’ve developed a touch of hypochondria, and I doubt I’ll have a normal conversation with my dad or my sister ever again.
But, hey, the good stuff is still there! Yay, good stuff!
For now, let’s see how many “a post a day” days I can string together. I miss writing. I feel rusty.
For now, thanks for reading. I will do my best to give you something to read often.
