Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Bloomsday

  • 2011 in 12 Sentences

    I have to look back at my blog because I, seriously, can’t remember what happened this past year. It’s all been a blur… January: I bought Vibrams and joined Barefoot running/minimalist shoe revolution! February: More running. Lots of it! yay running! March: Ukulele Festival was great! Visiting Spokane and seeing my Flickr friends was fabulous!…

  • The window seat

    The window seat

    I was boarding the plane from Spokane to Portland on Monday morning and in a bad mood. The news about Osama Bin-Laden broke the night before and the partying-in-the-streets reaction to it had me feeling bummed out. Not to mention, I was tired from not getting any sleep at my mom’s house and sore from…

  • Bloomsday

    So. Bloomsday. Honestly? I kind of dreaded it. I was going to be by myself. I hadn’t been able to run more than a mile in a month. My heel had still been hurting me. I was really not sure I should even try it. But I hate wasting money and I had already paid…

  • Hurdles

    Bloomsday is this Sunday. I’m signed up for it and will be there. Will i run it? The whole thing? Probably not. I’m going to try my best but I won’t be able to run the entire race. This is such a disappointment. I was so excited with my running a month ago. The last…

  • My running adventures

    About a month ago I bought a pair of Vibram KSOs. Apparently they can’t make these fast enough so many stores are out of a lot of the sizes. I had to buy the men’s version and they are wide so I’ve been getting blisters. It’s not terribly bad though. I had been easing myself…