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Today's Haiku

Fresh parchment sky
unwritten and expectant
scrawl on me the day

Today's Workout
Running: 3.1 miles
DAREBEE: Still sore.

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Links from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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I Must Be Seeing Things

A muffled sports announcer rambles from the ceiling. I'm racing the battery life of an Apple product for the third time today. I can feel the ghost of soreness as I sit still. My favorite kind of pain. A personal trophy.

I have a nice desk at work. The vice president of finance watches the news in his corner office everyday at 4:30. I hear gossip I don't understand but I know it's gossip because...you can tell they like the taste of it.

I catch my reflection on the street and despise my posture. I've craned my neck by whole life:
The desire to come eye to eye.
The beta's bow of deference.
The weight of a troubled mind.
I straighten up and suddenly feel stronger - but also more vulnerable and dishonest.

It just isn't where my body wants to be.

Today's Haiku

Pasta in the cube
big gulps with a borrowed fork
and my toady hunch

Today's Workout
Running: 0 miles
DAREBEE: Too sore

(Based on the word Ephemeral from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Hills and Hurts

Another half-marathon today. It was pouring at the start and looked as if it would for the rest of the race. Thankfully it was sporadic. I'm happy I won't be running a race again until June.

Week 43

Stats:

Running Mileage: 862.93/1,000

Drinks: 330/365

Vegan: 43/100

Books Completed: 25/25

Words Written: 311,197/350,000

Fasts (Days without)

Internet: 152/171

TV: 106/120

Gaming: 155/141

Booze: 134/163

Coffee: 139/150

Junk (Savory): 92/100
Junk (Sweet): 157/100
Eat Out: 211/100

Today's Haiku

Aching shin pythons
deep pain from knee to ankle

hills are the culprit

Today's Workout
Running: 13.1 miles
DAREBEE: Off for race.

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Trivial from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Spirals

Today's Haiku

Parallel park mess
Scratches and honks and hazards
I’m scraped to the bone

Today's Workout
Running: 0 miles
DAREBEE: Day 20 of 50 Push-ups a Day

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Hypermnesia from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Beep n Bop

Today's Haiku

Welcome momentum
this body's gotta truck it
stoppin'd be stupid

Today's Workout
Running: 0 miles
DAREBEE: Day 19 of 50 Push-ups a Day

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Asperity from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Weirdos

Today I saw a man screaming at the sky in the middle of a KFC parking lot. He wore a white cowboy hat and a white jacket with long white fringes. He had a small stick with the same fringes at its base, that he shook while he screamed. As I passed him, I waved and said good morning. He paused and looked at me with disbelief, as if I were a man screaming at the sky in the middle of a KFC parking lot.

Today's Haiku

Silver mists descend
the air is oddly stuffy
but the breath is cool

Today's Workout
Running: 3 miles
DAREBEE: Day 18 of 50 Push-ups a Day

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Prodigious from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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Secondary Sick

Today's Haiku

Spare brown belt and boot
Business casual stand-ins
when things got dicey

Today's Workout
Running: 0 miles
DAREBEE: Day 17 of 50 Push-ups a Day

Today's Drawing
(Based on the word Valetudinarian from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day)
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