anything but running

So I'm supposed to be training for the Seattle Half-Marathon, but am managing to do anything but. The problem is that I'm just not that motivated ... not sure why, because I do enjoy running (sort of) and the satisfaction that comes with having completed a goal (sort of). The issue is that the goal is 2 months away, and if there is one thing I'm really good at, it's procrastination. So today I am thinking of all the great things I can do instead of go for a run: read the paper (which was foiled because the two best sections, Review and Focus didn't come today ... ); clean my bathroom (it really is disgusting); open my mail (I have a tendency to let it pile up); watch hockey (first round playoff time, although I don't really care about the afternoon game today - my Sens aren't on til tonight); have a date with my PVR - plenty of good tv and movies saved for a cloudy day like today; and finally, what I really want to do is eat a blizzard - namely the tin roof brownie blizzard. So tasty.

Goddamn you mother nature

A fierce spring storm raged through town today. As such I had to walk home in weather like this picture (although please note that is not my picture as I don't have a bike, but if I did it would definitely have a basket like that one). Needless to say it was a pretty awesome walk. Drowned rat does not really come close to describing how I looked by the time I got home. The day was made even better by the fact that I was that the storm started as I was leaving a work event where I ran into this guy as described at the end of a previous entry. Luckily it wasn't all that ackward, but still unnecessary. On the upside the event was at The River Cafe, a very cool spot with amazing food and a great sustainability policy. I got to eat one of my fave meats: bison. Yum. And oh so cute too (as evidenced by this pic I took on the Nahanni back in 2005):