Friday

As I sit in the beautiful sunlight, next to my vegetable plants, watching Parking Wars on my laptop, drinking delicious instant iced coffee on my paid vacation that not everyone has the luxury of having, I know that no matter how many days I feel like this, I am still luckier than many.

Things I Love

Phenylephrine.

Contingency Plan

It has occurred to me recently that people are afraid of randomness. Scared that things happen randomly, with no purpose. So we assign guilt and justice to those events that can't possibly be random. That someone has unfortunate circumstances because they deserved it or didn't pray hard enough or gave up, and the other guy must have just been higher up on life's scale of "trying really hard".  We sit around and tell ourselves that someone else failing has caused their circumstances. They just didn't fight hard enough.  Humans seem incapable of believing that rewards and punishments show up randomly and without just cause.

Ghost Rider

Eeeeee! So, I'm in week 3 of the Couch to 5k plan! Super exciting that I've kept my attention on something for almost a month! Sometime last week, I bent to pick something up and felt a *pop* in my right achilles tendon. It didn't hurt so much as feel incredible unnatural and scary!