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And that same cold can ...

Absolutely train-wreck your workout plan. Monday I made it to spinning, Tuesday I went running, but by Wednesday the game was up and I was sick. I spent the evening watching Gilmore Girls. I think I already said that. Thursday I didn't feel recovered enough to do anything. Friday I went running and did my pushups/situps/squats (that being my strength routine at the moment) and today at some point I will run 3 miles. Gotta start going a bit longer than my usual 2 miles-my dad called me up and said "You wanted to do that Bataan run right?" Yes, yes I did. Not the full marathon, not yet anyway. I've been told there's a pit of sand that can make strong men and women break down and cry. We're going to tackle the 15-miler. So I have til next March to slowly increase my distance ... not too bad. Diet-wise I have accomplished something akin to a major breakthrough. Ready? I have given up my morning chocolate. On the surface that might not seem like a huge deal, but fo

A well-placed cold ...

Can put you out of a week's worth of studying time. Miniorc got it first, then Orclette, then Damm, and now me. We haven't had time to be sick, so both of us have been gamely driving on ... until last night when I simply could not anymore. I let Damm take care of me and watched Gilmore Girls. It was almost fun finally acting like a sick person ... is that an indication of how busy we are? The following paper was a reaction paper written for my Russian class. I got high grades on it ... yayness! It's all about Soviet authoritarianism. They got rid of the Romanovs and then got themselves a dictator-doesn't seem like they changed a whole lot. Was that inevitable? Did the Russian national character necessitate an autocratic government? What was the Bolsheviks plan? Did they have one? Etc. History 382V: Modern Russia Reaction Paper #2 Rebecca Wauson Suny subtitled Chapter Three of his textbook “On the Road from Democracy to Dictatorship”. Did Russia e