new layout

so this new layout... i like it.

i went to hannibal today, something that i am subjected to every major holiday, and several times inbetween. it's not that i dislike seeing my family, it's just that i hate that town. it is everything in the world that i have spent my life trying to get away from, it is a nightmare of a place to get stuck and not be able to get out. i am so, so thankful that my parents took us out of there.

i started running again yesterday, and it made me question why i took a week-long break. but first they had that concrete sidewalk up to the upper parking lot blocked off, so i kind of went on the grass on the edge, but i got attacked by branches and stuff and it was not fun. and then, i went to cut through by the fartlek field to get back up to the flag pole, and they still had that blocked off. but i didn't see anybody, so i ducked under and tried to get through, when i discovered that what i had mistaken for mud was really "i'm going to eat you alive" mud. the kind that you just sink into and it makes a horribly disgusting noise when you pry your shoes from its grasp. and there were geese that did not like my presense, and when i tried to run away, they kind of stared honking and chasing me. but they didn't keep that up for long. so i finally got done, and my sparkly white shoes are no longer white and sparkly, and my legs were drenched with mud and dirt and sand. it felt like cross country again.