into the void

you want me?
fuckin come and find me
i'll be waitin
with a gun and a pack of sammiches (?)
and nothin
nothin
nothin.
- radiohead


lol. sammiches.

Everytime i think about training and eventually running 26.2 miles, I think to myself "oh shit". What in the hell have i gotten myself into? Then when I think about my longterm goal of qualifying and running an olympic marathon sometime in my 30s, I think "oh shit" again. The hope is though, that you know what? If a double above-the-knee amputee can run a marathon in like a little under 3 hours, so can i. i have both my legs.

even when i was out of shape, i wasn't really. when it was 17 deg. with a windchill factor bringing it down to -3 or whatever, I would go for a walks. everyone stayed inside, took the T. I walked from my apartment on Huntington Ave, past the MFA and Northeastern, all the way down past the Prudential Center, thru the Copley area, and Newbury St., to Beacon Hill or the Common/Public Garden. Then I would walk back home after whatever I wanted to do. Once I walked two miles home with a pizza while it was snowing. Just because I wanted to.

So yeah, I can do it.

.kate.

Something I find very, very important

I've made political commentary in this blog before. I have, and I know it's controversial despite whether it's being read or not.

But I just really really really cannot stand Sarah Palin. She is BAD news for the environment and all animals. She's a member of the NRA (nat'l rifle assoc.), and takes place in canned hunts. (google a canned hunt if you don't know what it is, because it's just sick.) She hunts animals from helicopters and planes just because. She kills wolves and other predators in the state of Alaska to make more game available to hunt for hunters/poachers. After the current scary president added the polar bear to the endangered species list, Palin spent a whole lot of money trying to reverse the rulings. She hunts polar bears. She doesn't care that they're dying, and in fact, she'd like to see them all dead.

John Mccain.. whatever. I don't care. But Sarah Palin scares the crap out of me. She's a fucking psycho nazi gun-toting wolf-killing redneck. She is not qualified to do anything REMOTELY close to the job that she's trying to get right now.


God help us if McCain wins. It really will be the End of All Things. Horses will be slaughtered for food, cows and chickens will die for your dinners in ways that I don't want to think about, wolves and Polar bears and all wild game will be erased from history.


So please, please don't vote for her.

maynard..?

8D

forgive the cheesy face.

i have really bad vertigo but THAT'S OKAY! *gerardface*

Today I saw the doctor about my vertigo, vegged out while watching an hour and a half of The Return of the King on the hdtv, spent some quality time with my friend Steve, AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF...

I MET FREAKING MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN. HOLY CRAP.

*dances around*

maynard!wine was purchased--- for KEARA.. I'M THE BESTEST FRIEND EVARRRR.

purposefully bad spellllingggggg.

cheers
kate

kate wants korean food now

Two things. Or maybe 3.

1. Maynard James Keenan wine signing!!
Next Tuesday, MJK is going to be at my local Whole Foods (the giant one on Arroyo Pkwy) signing wine with Eric Glomski, the guy who owns/runs Page Springs. I was in Sedona Ariz. about two years ago on a weekend photo getaway and one of the places I went to shoot at was Page Springs. It was after the harvest (like a week after) and Eric Glomski was nice enough to let me wander around his beautiful vineyard for a few hours while I shot around 150 photos. It turns out Maynard was there the same weekend I was, and probably was at the vineyard when I was, so I think I might have accidentally run into his son like a bunch of times... whatever. That said, I really hope I'll be able to purchase some wine and meet MJK and Eric Glomski! I'm thinking of putting together some prints of my time at Page Springs for the owner.... I think it would be cool.

2. I run an 8.30 mile yayyyyy I'm slowwww.

3. Funnnnny conversation between myself and an old friend. Note: Jenn is Korean. Also note, I love Koreans.

Kate: over in the section of the apartment complex where i am
Kate: we are now the only non-korean family
Kate: lol
jenn: no way
jenn: -_-
jenn: haha
Kate: seriously
Kate: and everyone seems to know each other
Kate: they're always in and out of each others houses
Kate: so i don't know who lives where
Kate: >_>
Kate: i think they have keys to each others homes
Kate: i swear
Kate: i am not making it up
jenn: hahahahahahaahahahahaha
jenn: oh my gosh that's too funny
Kate: i dont know why it weirds me out
Kate: but it does
Kate: maybe because i'm uptight?
Kate: i dont knowww
5:45 PM
jenn: you should barge into one of their places today
jenn: and be like "yeah... I know korean people too. can I have some korean food?"
Kate: hahaha
Kate: oh man
Kate: seriously
Kate: that would be funny
Kate: oh man and when they first moved in, the first family anyway..
Kate: so like all in the past.... i dont know, like year or so
Kate: and the mom/wife lady says (to introduce herself)
Kate: hi
Kate: and "i have two children"
Kate: i was like oh cool okay..
Kate: then it happened again when the second family moved in.... and now the third family
Kate: x_x
Kate: WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY ABOUT YOU HAVING TWO CHILDREN???
jenn: hahahahahahahahahaha
jenn: THEY ARE SOOO KOREAN
Kate: i know its some sort of cultural/language barrier
jenn: koreans always talk about their kids
jenn: it's like their favorite subject
jenn: you should say "oh... well I have no kids"
jenn: muhahahahaha

Kate: oh man
Kate: i really could go for some good korean food
Kate: they're all quite nice though, which is good
Kate: in any situation where you get new neighbors, there's no guarantee that they'll be nice/normal
Kate: i mean, it's always nice when your neighbors aren't crack addicts or something
Kate: aren't running meth labs




.kate.

i really have nothing concrete to say

Bank of America is an evil corporation. 'Nuff said.


Will I be one of those 'tards with a bluetooth on my ear and a Blackberry in my hand as I walk into a coffee shop to order a latte? Let's hope not. God. A blonde chick in SoCal talking away on a Blackberry- WAY TO REPRESENT LA PEOPLE AS NON SUPERFICIAL.

I had to buy a staple gun for one of my classes this semester. And no, I won't come after you with it.
...if you don't piss me off. juuuussst kidding.

I need a new job. Ew.

It's all nasty and hot in my room and I'm sweaty. Yuck.

KFC hotwings are gross. Anything from KFC is gross.

On a positive note, since everything else I've written makes me sound like a cynical old lady, my allergies finally went away yayyyy.


mkay thats it. kthxbye.

.kate.