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October 09, 2006
it's. not. fair.
I am in the second floor lounge of our student center, running mid-term conferences. It is 70 degrees out, the sun is blasting through these south-facing windows, and I am yearning for a nice walk in the out-of-doors.
However, my students are smart and bright and sunny, they're enjoying this crazy goose-chase of an analysis essay I'm making them write, and I have a new macbook. So I do have things to celebrate.
It is supposed to snow this weekend. Gah.
Enjoy Deb's race report (below). And for the record, I did not start calling us "team yonker," one of those fellow running buds did. The irony, of course, is that as a team we are motley: one of us has a heart murmur, one of us has asthma, and one of us is completely bio-mechanically inefficient and crooked. More aptly put, we are "team gimpy."
Posted by mryonker at October 9, 2006 11:54 AM
Comments
"Gimpy Nerds" is more like it.
Team Gimpy Nerds. Has a nice ring to it. But it's not as swell as Team Yonker (in honor of our wonderful, brave, inspiring, lovely leader :) :)
Posted by: runningburro at October 9, 2006 12:45 PM
Gimpy nerds is good since we're all myopic and all teachers. No, I like team gimpy nerds MUCH better. It's official.
Posted by: madeline at October 9, 2006 12:53 PM
70 degrees? Snow? I can't imagine...it's still 90 down here. Ick.
Posted by: Sarah at October 9, 2006 01:03 PM
how about "team wonky"? it's more optimistic about your falling-over-ness than "gimpy," and still has that nice ringing honking goose-sound like yonker. :)
Posted by: tyratae at October 9, 2006 05:15 PM
tyratae:
thanks for pointing out that my last name honks like a goose.
and thanks for the wonky. I like that even better than gimpy nerds. Now it's official. we are team wonky.
Posted by: madeline at October 10, 2006 11:28 AM