I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but here we go

[marathoner452]

So let's see, what's new around here since I last wrote?

Erin came up and spent the night last weekend. We went to a film festival for hurricane relief called "Sights and Sounds of the South." We saw A Streetcar Named Desire, then went out to dinner at Harry's in Westminster. I bought tacky feather boas and perused masks for my Mardi Gras Halloween costume, then we went back to the film festival and saw The Big Easy. Sunday morning we got up early so I could run in the Bachman Valley 1/2 Marathon (finished in 2:04). In the afternoon we headed down to Baltimore for a Little Italy Pasta tasting. My favorite was the pesto pasta, and I had my first canoli.

This past week at work has been pretty wild. I took Community Services on Thursday morning, and I'll take Family Services (client casework) tomorrow, all day. I found out yesterday that I will after all be giving disaster education presentations all day on Tuesday. :O Good thing I'd been working on those presentations in amongst all my pre-deployment screening. I went out on my first disaster action call today too, and it was pretty intense to be even partially responsible for interviewing someone who just lost everything in a fire two days ago. Intense, yes, but also very satisfying.

And in other news, the Baltimore Marathon is in 2 weeks. Surprisingly, I'm not nervous at all. Part of that is because I'm running it as a training run and not a race. Most of that, though, I think, is because I've trained like crazy this summer. The race will be easy compared to running 54 miles in a week in the heat of summer, without crab soup at the end to boot.

(Oh, and I just think that mood icon is cute. It has nothing to do with anything.)

~Bethany

Comments

[clmcormick.livejournal.com]

Did you know I work in disaster medicine?? That's what I do...disaster training for first responders and first receivers.

2 weeks, huh?? I'm 30 days out and feeling pretty good about it...excited but good.

[marathoner452.livejournal.com]

I actually had no idea, but that's excellent. I'd love to hear more about it...do share.

~Bethany

[clmcormick.livejournal.com]

http://www.vdrc.vcu.edu is our homepage. It was, and I emphasize was as we were denied renewed funding last week, a federally funded project. We're at this moment trying to slash as much as possible to keep this running for another year. We'll see what happens.

[roadwarrior220.livejournal.com]

Well welcome back...it's so nice to see you back on. :-)

I love the icon too--so much fun. And I'm so excited for you with Baltimore coming up--I'll be cheering you on at the top of my lungs from here. And then I'll be on hand for NCR, as promised. :-)