chariots of fire September 25, 2005

This lovely building near my apartment has been polished for a couple of years to get this warm glow on the copper. Gone is the green top that I could spy from an airplane or the top of the Empire State building...

This weekend I am kitty sitting for Wendy and catching up on lots of little projects in her nice and quiet apartment. I am also watching episode after episode of one of my all time favorite shows..Third Rock From the Sun. So awesome.

It's finally starting to feel like fall around here, which means one big exciting thing to me. The New York City marathon! Whoo-hooo. Now you might think that this is a strange thing to be obsessed with, for someone who barely ever goes jogging...but I am, and I can't help it. Even when I was little I would get up at six in the morning to watch it on tv, all the way in Oregon-land. And for the last seven or so years that I've lived in New York, I've been lucky enough to walk just a few blocks from my house to see all of the runners zip by, right at the halfway mark. It's so much fun. Herds of people turn out to cheer them, out here in Brooklyn... little live bands, people in costume, little kids and hipsters and punk rockers all clapping and hollering with extreme gusto. I cheer and flail and scream and hoot for the joggers like you wouldn't believe. Last year, we high-fived and jumped and hoorahed for hours, and the next day, I was so sore, I could barely move. How embarrassing! When people asked me why I was moving like an old lady, I said "Oh..the marathon..." hoping I could just leave them to assume, I ran it. And who knows, maybe this year REALLY will be the year that I start training for it. I can safely say, at this point, I can run a mile pretty comfortably. Ahh yes....one down, (insert Chariots of Fire theme song and montage of me running in slow motion..) twenty five to go....