Dammit. It’s 12:45pm and I should definitely be asleep, but Chrissy has me feeling guilt at my lack of posting since she has finally also rejoined the LJ universe. So, an update!<\/p>\n
The past few weeks have been a mix of terrible and great news. Three good friends have had close family members pass away, one very unexpectedly, two not so unexpectedly. Death is a private pain, so I choose not to disclose names, but you know who you are and I have been grieving for all of you. In the midst of all this loss, I’ve heard both good and bad baby news from several other close friends – two have just discovered they are with child (again, not my place to say who: they’ll announce in their own good time) and two have found they no longer are, alas. <\/p>\n
I’m working a lot of overtime, and trying to make it out to birthday celebrations and other get-togethers as well. A lot of running fills in any random gaps in the schedule. <\/p>\n
The Mississauga Marathon, where I hope to be running my first 21.5km half-marathon is in 2 weeks and I managed to injure my left hip somehow on last Sunday’s prep run on the course. After completing around 21km in 2hrs17mins, I’ve pulled or cracked or sprained something and am now going to see a sports therapist for physio on Friday. Was also persuaded by Had the pleasure of several visitors from afar this weekend, including the impulsive yet intrepid Dave who flew up from New York on two days notice. I’m glad we got to spend a bit of Sunday afternoon together, reclining on a grassy knoll together with Lena, having a quiet, sunny picnic on the waterfront. I needed that time away from bad news and computer screens badly.<\/p>\n Have also begun to more seriously plan my 6 months off. So far, the schedule is shaping up like so: August – see Grand Canyon, Rockies then off to Casablanca, Morocco; September – from Morocco over to Egypt; October – to Turkey to visit Jen and see the Hagia Sofia, then over to Greece; November – possibly run the Athens Classic Marathon on November 4th, then rest up and get to Rome to meet Chrissy for a tour of Italy; December – over to Geneva to stay with Brett while he’s performing Mozart for Op\u00c3\u00a9ra de Gen\u00c3\u00a8ve<\/a> in Switzerland, then home for my birthday on the 19th. January – hopefully sequestered away somewhere mountainous (BC?) to write and think before returning to work on February 1st.<\/p>\n So, that’s my life in brief. Sorry to have been away so long. Will post photos soon showing the last few weeks for folks that aren’t on Facebook so you can see where I’ve been and with whom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dammit. It’s 12:45pm and I should definitely be asleep, but Chrissy has me feeling guilt at my lack of posting since she has finally also rejoined the LJ universe. So, an update! The past few weeks have been a mix of terrible and great news. Three good friends have had close family members pass away, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}