Comments on: I like to think I was born to run, but I’ll take what I can get.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:21:22 +0000

I came up on your site because it was linked to a blogher thingy and I am so happy. I laughed so hard with this post I cried. I was trying to read the bit about the shoes for the bathroom to my husband and had to pause several times. I think it was because I was envisioning your children’s baffled faces as to why they would need footwear for this new community bathroom experience.

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:34:56 +0000

Lady, I don’t think you are even close to “born to lose” because this is one of the best blog posts I have ever read.

Seriously, I’m going to go read it again.

By: maggie may

maggie may — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:06:51 +0000

hi, new here :) i keep telling myself i’ll read it.
i really will!

By: Summer

Summer — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:39:44 +0000

This has nothing to do with anything, but I simply must tell you because it has been on my mind forEVer.

Two or three times a week I drive past a sign that says, “Engineered Fluid, Inc.” And so, two or three times a week I drive past and I think, “Engineered Fluid Pudding, Inc.”

Ah. A weight has been lifted.

Good work on the fitness improvement, by the way. I’m sincerely impressed with your results. Fitness? From a vidyagame? Whoodathunk?

By: LetterB

LetterB — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:01 +0000

I’m reading Infinite Jest too. I hope I pass the dutchie. I mean mustard. I mean muster. Hey! I just realized there will be a whole subgroup at BlogHer of people doing Infinite Summer. That should be fun. And heavy. Thinking of splitting the binding on the book and breaking it into separate pieces. Would that be too radical? It was something my Shakespeare professor recommended we do with our collected works book when I was in college. I thought he was nuts but now I’m way less prissy about books and seriously considering it.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:19:37 +0000

I realize that i seem like i’m copying you (what with the EA Sports Active and all) but I was just trying to find a copy of Infinite Jest (which I keep spelling incorrectly) earlier today. I wonder if my hands/wrists/arms are strong enough to read it. It looks heavy.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:20:34 +0000

Two things:

1. You look awesome! Good work!
2. I am loving IJ so far, I guess maybe I haven’t gotten to the scary parts yet.

By: La La

La La — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:31:51 +0000

I was loser on occasion, but more often it was stupid that I got from my little man child. He’s 23 now and he ended up being an exceptional teenager who never gave me a days trouble… (after all the farting, and the fart farts and butts and so on and so on…) (He still comes over and farts, by the way. That one never seems to end.) So… although he is saying you are a loser, what he’s REALLY saying is that he loves you very much.

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:44:52 +0000

Although I love the book, I’ve decided to spend the summer zipping through the pile ‘o unread books that are neatly stacked in a skyscraper next to my bed, constantly threatening to tumble and kill me. I love that people are reading Infinite Jest. It’s one of those books that you really want other people to experience, but you realize that when you offer to let them borrow your copy then show up with what appears to be a weighty hardback weapon, they’ll usually plead illiteracy in order to get out of it. This has been cured nicely with the summer thing, as quitting will now result in horrible public shame. It’s genius.

By: Alli

Alli — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:24:07 +0000

You look awesome! I never heard of pwn either.