Productive weekend
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zoetheA week before classes start, and I spent the entire day doing homework. And on the first day I walk into classrooms, I will be at least a week behind on assignments.
How can this be, you wonder? Simple: my first week of classes will be spent in Israel, a seminar class supported by a Fullbright scholarship that the professor has, so it is only costing me tuition.
I leave on Thursday. I'm very excited.
The topic of the seminar is "Bioethics and End-of-Life Issues," so I've spent the entire day reading about death. Except for the break I took for my workout on the now-repaired NordicTrack.
Where I finished reading "The Pagan Book of Living and Dying" by Starhawk.
There may be a little too much theme going on here.
I'm staggeringly behind on reading my flist as it is. By the time I get back from Israel, I shudder to think....
We did get out briefly. I wanted to get a new pair of athletic shoes. I bought my current shoes - Brooks Andrenaline GTS - a year ago and I have loved them more than any pair of shoes I have ever owned, but after a year and 2000+ miles of activity, they are not as supportive as they used to be. I walked into the local athletic store and announced that I wanted the exact same shoe. The guy went into the back and came out with a box. "They've changed the color...." he said. I could hear him wincing.
I opened the box and literally gasped. Whereas my current shoes are white mesh with a dusky blue trim, this year's version replaces the dusky blue with orange. Metallic, orange that you can't even call copper. "Oh my GAWD, that's an ugly shoe!" I cried.
I stood there looking at it. It was hideous. Then I tried it on. It was wonderful on my feet.
I hate orange. I bought the shoe anyway. That's how much I love this shoe.
As I said to Ferrett as the clerk was ringing it up: "They'll last forever! I won't be tempted to wear my exercise shoes when I'm just going to friends or to the mall!"
'Cuz, dude. These are some fugly shoes....
How can this be, you wonder? Simple: my first week of classes will be spent in Israel, a seminar class supported by a Fullbright scholarship that the professor has, so it is only costing me tuition.
I leave on Thursday. I'm very excited.
The topic of the seminar is "Bioethics and End-of-Life Issues," so I've spent the entire day reading about death. Except for the break I took for my workout on the now-repaired NordicTrack.
Where I finished reading "The Pagan Book of Living and Dying" by Starhawk.
There may be a little too much theme going on here.
I'm staggeringly behind on reading my flist as it is. By the time I get back from Israel, I shudder to think....
We did get out briefly. I wanted to get a new pair of athletic shoes. I bought my current shoes - Brooks Andrenaline GTS - a year ago and I have loved them more than any pair of shoes I have ever owned, but after a year and 2000+ miles of activity, they are not as supportive as they used to be. I walked into the local athletic store and announced that I wanted the exact same shoe. The guy went into the back and came out with a box. "They've changed the color...." he said. I could hear him wincing.
I opened the box and literally gasped. Whereas my current shoes are white mesh with a dusky blue trim, this year's version replaces the dusky blue with orange. Metallic, orange that you can't even call copper. "Oh my GAWD, that's an ugly shoe!" I cried.
I stood there looking at it. It was hideous. Then I tried it on. It was wonderful on my feet.
I hate orange. I bought the shoe anyway. That's how much I love this shoe.
As I said to Ferrett as the clerk was ringing it up: "They'll last forever! I won't be tempted to wear my exercise shoes when I'm just going to friends or to the mall!"
'Cuz, dude. These are some fugly shoes....
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on 2006-01-09 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 02:35 am (UTC)Maybe you can paint some sort of dye over the orange? My daughter used color Sharpies to decorate shoes, maybe it could work to cover or at least tone down the ugly.
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on 2006-01-09 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 02:36 am (UTC)Found this out repairing some clearance shoes with faded trim on just the left shoe. Worked nicely, lasted the life of the shoes...
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on 2006-01-09 02:47 am (UTC)I suggest...
on 2006-01-09 02:46 am (UTC)Using a black permanent magic marker to color over the orange. They still won't be appropriate for public wearing, but they won't hurt your eyes every time you look at them.
Have fun in Israel.
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on 2006-01-09 02:46 am (UTC)As for the end of life and ethics thing, I would love to hear more. Since I work in a practice where we are the patient advocate for end of life issues. Have a wonderful time in Israel.
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on 2006-01-09 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-01-09 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 02:58 am (UTC)and take pitchas?
you go!
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on 2006-01-09 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-01-09 04:41 am (UTC)I look forward to hearing about Israel. How will the end of life issues relate to where you will be?
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on 2006-01-09 10:04 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 04:57 am (UTC)Most running shoes should be replaced at 300-500 miles. I wear (and love the Brooks Adrenaline GTS, but they are not a high milage shoes)
If you're not careful, you're going to end up with a stress fracture.
http://www.aapmr.org/condtreat/injuries/shoefact.htm
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on 2006-01-09 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 01:46 pm (UTC)As for Israel, have a BLAST, hon! When you get back, you and I need to get together. After chatting with Ferrett for a bit on Thursday, I wanted to talk to you about the Pagan thing.
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on 2006-01-09 01:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, we will definitely have to get together when I return. Coffee of a Sunday morning or summat.
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on 2006-01-09 06:53 am (UTC)With Sharon in a coma, this will be an especially apt thing to be discussing in Israel this week. Have you seen this brief article about end of life issues in Israeli law?
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on 2006-01-09 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 12:52 pm (UTC)Will you be in Jerusalem at all?
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on 2006-01-09 01:28 pm (UTC)The class schedule is pretty full, but we are supposed to get out early one day and go up there in the rented van, so I'm very much hoping so. It would be a pity to get all the way there and not see Jerusalem.
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on 2006-01-09 01:46 pm (UTC)I'm sure others have already said it, but have fun. And above all, be safe!
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on 2006-01-09 01:47 pm (UTC)Shoe Colors
on 2006-01-09 01:48 pm (UTC)The only person you'd have to blame about bad colors would by yourself ;)
Re: Shoe Colors
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on 2006-01-09 02:52 pm (UTC)Good for you, and good luck!
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on 2006-01-09 02:24 pm (UTC)You know there had to be some interesting conversation going on in the back room the day the new color arrived. I will never understand a company's urge to take a perfectly good product and make it horribly ugly, or impossible to find a decent color. Try looking for plain black and white Converse someday. I had to wait for GothMart to put them on sale to get a decent price, because everywhere else only sold them in eye searingly ugly color combos.
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on 2006-01-09 02:48 pm (UTC)Bleah.
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on 2006-01-09 02:51 pm (UTC)Good thing I live in a town where that color is totally banned.
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on 2006-01-09 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 02:58 pm (UTC)I remember wearing wild 80's outfits and thinking they were just the coolest thing ever. Punky Brewster socks, man. And stirup pants.
These days I aim to wear clothing that will not cause my future grandchildren to laugh at how weird Granny dressed. Or at least not die from embarrasment.
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on 2006-01-09 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-09 03:28 pm (UTC)Actually, I can't remember wearing a whole lot of really off the wall clothing styles once my older sisters left for college. Either the 90s weren't long enough ago for me to think the clothes I wore were weird, or the lack of "trendy" influence in the house kept me away from anything truly horrific. Who decides what's trendy, anyways?
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on 2006-01-09 03:56 pm (UTC)The 90s were actually pretty mellow, fashion-wise. There were attempts at revivals of bad ideas from the past, but for the most part it was just....
Well, boring. ;-)
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on 2006-01-10 02:40 am (UTC)Have a great time in Israel, if I don't..comment to you...before then...and when you're back, I'll be gearing up for India...so...happy trails, I suppose...
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on 2006-01-10 04:26 am (UTC)