So, was it as great as everybody said it was?
Oh man, was it ever!!! Did you hear about the meet up at the Expo on Sunday, where a bunch of people who share happysadgoodbadhopefear with each other daily through the window of a monitor, became flesh and blood to each other? You did? Well did you hear about those flesh and blood people becoming slightly fleshier after an evening of gigantic slices of thin crust pizza followed by the most amazing confections?? Oh, you heard that too? How ’bout this - did you hear about the race? Did you know that this bunch of people ran with each other and encouraged each other and cheered each other in? Then they ate loaves of bread and more of those awesome cookies, and some even had a refreshing AM beer. And then off they went, to their different parts of the state and their different parts of the country. Will it ever be the same when they read each other’s blogs? Now that they don’t see words and one-dimensional pictures, now that they see each other speaking - the voices, the expressions, the look of a smile or the sound of a laugh? Suddenly the world feels a little smaller, and a little more intimate.
That’s all for now. More to come, but I think I have to sleep off the remnants of that pizza hangover first. Thanks to Susan for a very flattering picture of me mowing down. If you could play it in streaming video you would actually see the belly roll enlarging!
Comment by brent
Monday September 05 2005 @ 10:02 pm
sounded like a great time lara. hey i like that picture! your arm looks all toned and stuff. can’t wait for your race recap. i’m sure it was a great race!! nice job, in advance