a long run for someone with nothing to think about
i ran to work today. and then back home eight hours later. 14 miles. i think this is going to be the pattern when days get short and i can’t both bike and run on the same day, re: too much evening dark.
running in the evening dark is kind of a bummer. morning dark is fine, because no one is awake and i have the entire earth to myself. evening dark sucks because people are driving home from work, which always puts them in a bad mood because they’re going somewhere they don’t want to be coming from somewhere they didn’t want to go to in the first place, sitting in something that they thought they wanted but not in the scenario they’re currently in, which is sitting in heavy traffic feeling like a total asshole. i see their faces. they do in fact feel like assholes. oh, and it makes them shitty drivers, which makes for a bad run in the dark.
where was i going with this before the judgment started? oh right. i was running home tonight and i saw all the uw freshmen starting to move into the dorms and holy cats how are they old enough to go to college? they look like babies with too-big backpacks. if my math and sexual timeline are right, i am officially old enough to have fathered a college freshman, which means that i am officially old.