Carter called last night to say that he’d just run for 55 minutes and would have no problem making the Peachtree distance next weekend. This is good for him, but bad for me, since I will probably be slowing him down. I can run either fast or long, but not both.
After the conversation though, I fell asleep and dreamed that I was running in the Peachtree with Jen O., and we started ahead of the first wave. So I kept looking behind me and seeing a pack of tall, skinny Kenyans catching up to us. They passed us in a cloud of dust, a la that Nike commercial with all the people running through the plains, and Jen and I tried to keep up, but failed miserably. And all the while, I was trying to find Carter, who for whatever reason hadn’t started the race with us.
Anyway.
The rain continues here in Houston. I like thunderstorms, but this is getting ridiculous. This morning the guards had closed the front gate down to only one lane of traffic. I can only assume it was because of the rain and lightning, but it was pretty annoying because traffic was backing up on Saturn and it wasn’t even 8:00 yet (and thus not quite yet the busiest part of the morning). I feel sorry for the security guys having to stand out in the rain, but they do have super rain suits, and I don’t see how causing traffic to back up on the main road makes anything better.
Mom is flying in this afternoon, so I hope the thunderstorms break at least long enough for her plane to make it in without major delay. In preparation for her visit, I stayed up late last night cleaning the apartment; there’s nothing like the impending arrival of a parent to put me in cleaning mode. The bathroom is all shiny, the carpet is freshly vacuumed, and I threw away a whole trash bag of magazines and papers that had been piling up. Piles of paper are my arch-nemesis in the world of cleaning. I attack them and win the battle, but they always come back; the war never ends. In any case, my apartment hasn’t looked this good since I moved in!! Seriously. I hope I can keep it even half as clean after Mom leaves.
