first, i’d just like to note that on sunday, when i posted that photo of my legs, my plan was to walk around and find a bunch of different images of spring, and put them all up here. instead, i was too lazy, and only managed to take the photo of my legs because they happen to be attached to my body.
last evening, from 6:30 to 7:10, i ran on the lake road. and each and every car that passed contained one (1) couple dressed in orange t-shirts or sweatshirts. every single one of them.
soon, i decided that maybe it was actually the same couple, driving down the road and stopping and hopping into a different car.
come to think of it, most of the cars were big black SUV’s, so maybe it was actually the same car, back and forth and back and forth.
i assume they were all going to BLOWOUT ILLINI BASKETBALL PARTIES, and i was sad for approximately one nanosecond that i hadn’t been invited to any basketball parties.
i was much happier running on the lake road.
i did watch most of the game, and it was pretty sad. i had a bad feeling throughout; why couldn’t they just GET MORE BASKETS??? i didn’t want to watch till the bitter end, but i did.
before the game started, an old boyfriend called to tell me he would be watching the game and rooting for the illini in my place, since he assumed i wouldn’t be doing so. but it didn’t do him any good after all, to cheer.
this is one of the problems with watching sporting events, the agony of defeat. the annoyance that they could lose.
also, the number of commercials is highly annoying.
whew, that’s all the sports i’m going to watch for a long time now. maybe i’ll go to a baseball game this summer; at least that’s out in the fresh air. my friend Thad told me that Washington D.C. now has its own ball team, the Nationals, and he’s pretty excited about that. i don’t know if i’d want to go all the way to D.C. to watch a game, though.
sunday night i took a walk through washington park with mom and amy and my niece and a couple of dogs. i don’t think i’ve ever walked through the park at night, and i liked it. as we walked toward the park, we passed houses with the glow of the TV shining through the windows. i wanted to knock on their doors and invite them to join us, but i figured they’d be alarmed, with all the people and the crazy dogs. but that would be nice, weekly nighttime excursions through the park.
somebody commented to me that all those people are letting life pass them by, watching the electronic images flicker on their screens as i’m out in the world actually participating. i do think that’s true, but i also think that for some people, tv is entertainment, and an easy escape, a way to unwind after a trying day. but on the other hand, a good walk would be more satisfying, plus of course good for you. but i’m not going to lecture you. except christine, who keeps telling me she knows she SHOULD work out, but doesn’t, and doesn’t have any good excuse for not doing it.
but i don’t have a good excuse for most of the things i do, either. plus she’s very busy re-designing my website because she says it could be MUCH BETTER, so certainly she has no time for exercising! today she told me that it’s possible to ski in denver as late as june, which seems horrible to me, personally.
if you recall, a while ago i asked for a (very belated) ice cream cone, and i immediately got it. after that, a nice reader wrote to me and offered to take me out to dinner. Well, he sounds nice, but of course he COULD be some insane mass-murdering lunatic who happens to like my site. i do appreciate the offer, lunatic or not. therefore, i’m positive that the offer of a lovely trip will be forthcoming from somebody somewhere. i feel very calm and patient about this.
my friend john just finished building his own web site, and i noticed that he has a link to my site from his. that was certainly nice of him. i’ll have to link his site to mine, but maybe that will be something christine will have to do, linking other sites to mine? or at least telling me how to do it. i’d include john’s site right here, except i can’t remember what it’s called. and then, i suppose i’ll have to be more dilligent about trying to look at other sites, in order to include them, too. whew, sounds like a lot of work. christine has encouraged me to look at other peoples’ sites, but i haven’t done it.
Like her and the exercise, i have no excuse.
but everything is still good.
ok then,
grace about to walk to wienerdog for a tasty (and so nutritious) lunch.