very exciting present

hello! thanks for the replies to previous blogs, everyone, specifially the last one. i would like to have learned another language as well. any language at all. if they don't start doing a better job of teaching kids languages when they're young, i hope that somehow i might be able to give my children some bilingual friends to learn from. that would be nice.

i got a very exciting present for christmas. it's the nike+ipod thing. apparently i don't know the official name. or maybe that's it. but it's a little device that you plug into your ipod, and a sensor that goes in your shoe, that uses a combination of, i believe, a pedometer and GPS to track your mileage. it will also tell you your speed, how many calories you've burned, etc. brad got it for me and it think it's very exciting. but i've used it a few times and the distances have been way off, which is so aggravating. the other day i ran 8 miles and my ipod said i ran 6.5. lie! and it happened a couple of times after that. i think that the sensor might not be attached tightly enough to my shoe. i hope i can get it to work right, or at least, get it to work so that if it can't be accurate, it can at least skew things in my favor. if it had said i ran 9 miles, i probably would have found it flattering.

i am really really into running right now. if you had told me in junior high or high school that i would someday be running as much as i am, i would have been awed and amazed. there was not much that made me feel worse about myself than running. i got the reddest face, had the slowest times, and felt like i might die every time i went. but as it turns out, i think that was mostly due to me being in terrible physical shape. i still get the red face, but it feels good, i'm much more energetic, i feel more confident, and i sleep a lot better. i'm not even exaggerating those claims for stereotypicalness' sake. it's just true. it turns out that i love exercise. who knew??