This weekend I…
read: “Delicious” by Ruth Reichl – or some of it. I’m actually listening (rather slowly) to the book on tape version. It’s a little frustrating when the reader of a book on tape mispronounces words related to the subject of the book. Grumble.
watched: agile programming for your family (TED talk). Agile is a workflow method commonly used by modern engineering teams – that we happen to use at RunKeeper. In this talk, Bruce Feiler shares how he’s brought the methodology home to his family. I particularly like the adoption of retrospective questions at family meeting: “what worked well, what didn’t work well, what we should work on in the week ahead”.
went to a party on a roof deck in Somerville. A vest party. In the middle of summer. I had to bring it, so I brought it in the form of a white leather metal studded vest from Forever 21. There are no pictures of me wearing this vest, but I assure you it was spectacular. Devon was my complement in a rather neon Reebok safety running vest.
ate at our favorite date-night restaurant – yep, the same place we eat every Friday night – we shared a steak with asparagus, and a lobster sandwich with paprika aioli. Our favorite waiter is heading off to Cleveland to get his graduate nursing degree, and we’re pretty bummed out about it.
ran my very first trail race! Vert Sasquatch, from the Stone Zoo out through the Fells. It was FUN! Unsure of what was in store for me, I ran part of it a little bit conservatively, and still managed to finish faster than I has assumed I would, and! managed to get in quite a few kills. Who knew that I’d like trail racing?!
and… forgot to meal plan for the week. Whoops! Let’s hope we don’t starve!
