Recreation 101

Cynthia & I at the St. Paddy's Day Calgary Roadrunners 5/10K Run on March 15...

So this very very small picture shows what we do in our spare time: run 10 Km on a Sunday morning to fund... wait for it... I'm not sure; I never really did find out who gets those $35 besides the organizers. Oops; but it was fun anyway. Particularly 1) because we had next to no training (last run: 2 weeks ago); 2) I beat my 4-year-old 10K time by 70 seconds, for a run (Vancouver SunRun 2005) that I trained 4 months for, and 3) it was followed by a nice cold one by one of the sponsors, Steamwhistle Brewery. Sweet! What a great way to start the morning... Just next time I'll make sure that entrance fee goes at least partially to alleviating hunger or saving a tree or beating some sort of population-regulating disease.

Speaking of which - Euan Allen (a Masters student studying the effects of thyroid hormone levels on gonad development in goldfish, with Dr. Habibi) just poked his head into the lab looking for donations for the Moustache Madness fundraiser. I'm working on the moustache, but for now I can give my $10 to the cause.

And now it's back to writing theses, studying for midterms, drafting term papers, downloading articles, fiddling with R plots, and avoiding despair by *not* reading Andrew Nikiforuk's "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent", which, by the way, is available FREE at http://www.dmpibooks.com/pdf/tar-sands until March 20, 2009, through Greystone Publishing. Thanks Greystone! Have yourselves a great day - I can see (through the windows of the SunLit Vamosi Lab) the sun is actually shining out there and it's probably hitting that +7 deg C that was forecast for today.

Cheers