TRADITIONS OF NOT FOLLOWING THRU AND PREVENTING SPOILED DOGS

tomorrow will be the third time i've signed up for the shamrock shuffle and NOT ran it. i think it's partly due to the fact that i always sign up so far in advance i never know what i'll be doing that weekend - this because of the fact that it ALWAYS fills up so quickly. and it's partly because i sign up on my own each year and have no one to keep me accountable. and partly because of the weather.

the first year i signed up i lived in the burbs and it was freezing rain. i woke up in the wee early morning and quickly fell back to sleep. the year after i was just too hung over to get up. and this year there's supposed to be 3 inches of snow on the ground when i wake up tomorrow...so thanks but i'd rather go sit in bio class for 4 hours then ride the train downtown at 7:30 to plod thru 8 miles of slush by myself.

i should come up w/ a part two to this tradition. "every year i will enter the shamrock shuffle and then instead of running i will spend the day sleeping in and eating italian beef sandwiches" (i'm hungry)

ps maddie literally just stole my pillow. she moved it w/ her long ambidextrous limbs over to her half of the bed and proceeded to fluff and prod it to her liking before plopping into it. i quickly pulled it away in an ongoing attempt to prevent her from ruling the apt.