I am supposed to be Timing Coordinator on Gov Is tomorrow morning and I do not feel sufficiently trained. Have reviewed the handouts. I know how to put mats down, roughly where they go, and how to thread all those cables and (I think) connect with the decoder. But not much else. Scrolling through options on the decoders seems a mystery to me. Fortunately I’m not totally alone tomorrow. A mystery to me, not entirely crucial here, is how I work on the Split, when when the Split (for a 10k) isn’t even given a mat.
On the bright side, I’m more than just a pair of hands, and I’m already—prematurely, proleptically—scheduled to do the same next month. I don’t have to labor for hours, unloading and packing up, installing a hundred French barricades, raising and lowering tents. This work is probably harder in some ways, but I’m not wandering around.
Halloran is in charge of Finish/Start both days, Sat & Sun.
I noticed Jen sent around an email, looking for applicants for a Volunteer Manager for the Brooklyn Half next spring. Volunteering is kryptonite to me, so I wasn’t tempted. I wonder what happened with Tina, the enormous and slatternly volunteer manager I dealt with in the olden days, who wouldn’t let the volunteers have bagels (etc.) because bagels weren’t for unpaid volunteers, only for the people who were already getting paid to work.
Colored my hair on Wednesday, midday, with the light brown Excellence. It looks very nice, but my hair feels very thin. I left a big grey splotch above the right corner hairline, sort of the Tulsi Gabbard look, only hers is in her thick sidelocks. After coloring and drying my hair I went to Coliseum Dental at 3 and the tall girl with glasses, the one I keep thinking is Iranian, replaced two slightly missing ceramic fillings. Apparently I have a crown on top that collides with one. Only an hour or less in the chair, not too much chastising for my teeth being in poor condition. “Oh this has to come out, that’s another one you’re going to lose.” Paid $82 on my citi debit card card, being $68 for today’s copay and $14 from some previous dangling debit.
Then off to Whole Foods, where I bought some kind of organic vegetable hash, thick beef patties, a $6 sourdough loaf (which I basically took home for free because the barcode didn’t scan), a big 2 lb jug of maple-flavored whole-milk yoghurt, some cheap $3 granola…two avocados which are now becoming ripe (may eat a little salad for breakfast before shoving off at 4:50am)…thought about a cheap frozen pizza but put it back in preference for the vegetable hash.
Bought a $5.43 Platinum pint at Shirley’s this evening. I promise myself not to drink more than 1/2, with smoothie, before conking out for a few hours shortly. Can’t go to the ferry terminal with a load on.
The euphoria over Trump’s win continues, not just stateside. Katie Hopkins has done a few videos about why she is thrilled and really, Brits should be thrilled.
I saw nothing in these that was cringe, except possible reference to the non-issue about “men in women’s sports.” But she fundamentally sees the cultural issues clearly. And she has a huge appreciation of the American Constitution, particularly the first two articles of the Bill of Rights.
Katie sometimes reminds me a bit of Lady Colin Campbell. She might not like that. I’m surprised at how young Katie is. Born in 1975?
Katie Hopkins discusses Donald Trump’s win, while traipsing through the countryside.
It’s a government of Uncle Don, RFK Jr., J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and maybe maybe Matt Gaetz (very iffy just now). There’s also a Mike Waltz, Nat Sec Advisor designate. Pete Hegseth, the chad who shows up on Fox and Friends, as Defense Secretary, which will be hilarious if it goes through. John Thune is now Senate Majority Leader. A bare GOP majority in the House now, but it won’t be useful unless they get another 4 or 5 more; some are resigning to take appointments. A very fetching blond Catholic girl from New Hampshire will be press secretary.
