Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.
I hate the news. I really do. I hate how it’s almost always depressing or disturbing, and very rarely is it good news. However, I also have this overwhelming need to know what’s going on. EVERYWHERE. About ANYTHING.
Lately, I’ve been sucked into this horrific story about a 15 year old girl who was gang-raped at her homecoming dance while TWENTY people just stood there and watched (or participated). I’m horrified. I’m heartbroken, and honestly, the whole story makes me want to cry and vomit at the same time.
Most women at some point in their life (right now it’s about 1 in 4) will face some sort of rape or attempted rape in their life. And most women have had times in their life when they’ve been made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe around a guy, even if nothing is physically done to them. Now take that horrible feeling and imagine what this poor girl is going through. I’m not kidding when I say that I cry everytime I read something about it.
It’s sickening.
And I’m not really sure how to make a segue here, but I don’t really want to end this post on something so depressing. So…this is my terrible segue.
Running has been going pretty terribly. I went on an easy run on Tuesday and almost killed myself. It was fun. Except the exact opposite.
It was an easy 2.5 mile tempo run. The course I run on is a trail and has a couple of rolling hills. Nothing super tough, and I run over about 3 “bridges” which are really just some 2 x 4s put together to extend the path over drainage ditches and a small creek. I was running along trying to keep up the pace (oh my god I’m EVEN SLOWER now from doing all the long distance training and not as much speed work) and running about an 11 min pace (sad that that’s my tempo pace I know haha) and my knee just gave out from under me mid step while crossing one of the “bridges”.
I stumbled and fell over the edge of the “bridge” and landed on my head and shoulder about an inch from a huge rock. It hurt a lot (I can’t even imagine if I had HIT the rock). I got back up and tried to keep running but my knee wouldn’t hold me up.
I could walk with barely any pain, but the minute I tried to run…my knee stopped working and sharp shooting pains went through my knee. Same thing again the next day. My knee feels a couple of twinges if I step wrong while walking, but not really anything awful…and it’s much better today, but I can’t run for the life of me. Luckily it’s not giving out on me anymore…but its definitely painful when I attempt to run.
So what the hell just happened to it?
I’m trying to rest it until this weekend and will attempt to run again either Saturday or Sunday. If it doesn’t work out I guess I’m going to a doctor? Argh.
So I’ve been playing on the computer and knitting (and eating more than I should be haha).
Anyways, I finished a sock a few days ago…now I just need to start the second one. And my mystery socks are almost done…I just need to finish the foot of the 2nd one and do both toes and I’ll be done. I kind of like knitting both socks at the same time instead of starting and finishing one, then starting and finishing the second. It’s a lot more satisfying when you finish them at the same time 
Anyways, here’s a picture of the finished sock waiting for it’s match to be made. I’ll post the mystery socks as soon as I’ve finished them this week hopefully.
Again, my camera phone sucks at taking pictures. But the yarn is an orange, gray and burgandy color with glitter! Yay glitter! It looks like fall colors. I liked the yarn better in the ball then I do in the sock, but it’s not terrible. :-) And the sock itself is kind of fun (although not as stretchy as ribbed socks usually are).
Anyways, have a great day today!
