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For some reason, I can never sleep the night before a longish run. I don’t fall asleep for the longest time, and when I do have very bizarre dreams that wake me up a couple of times during the night. Dreams not even usually about running.
And I always wake up 15 minutes before the alarm goes off.
Which is a bummer when I’ve forgotten to reset the clock and get up at the old 5:45.
If I go back to bed, I’ll just sleep right through my run, so I guess I’ll surf for a while!
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Digby, as always, is on the mark:
Libby Indicted
This is the first time in 130 years that a sitting White House official has been indicted. The last time was in the Grant administration.
Honesty. Integrity. Honor. Dignity.
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Let’s put it this way: after one reading through Hot Chocolate by Michael Turbeck, I wanted to have sex with this book. Not with the author. With the book.
The Amazon page says there are “more than 60” recipes in this book, which probably means there are 61 or something. It’s a thin book, with a wide range of chocolates for every taste: the thick chocolate from Cafe Angelina in Paris, spicy Aztec-inspired chocolates, a hot white chocolate from Sweden, Frrrozen Hot Chocolate from Serendipity, alcoholic chocolates for adults, side dishes of tuiles and little cookies, coconut marshmallows…
Seriously, depending on how this winter goes my entire running program could be for naught, because I seriously want to try half of the recipes in this book tonight. I’ll leave the lavender-and-pistachio hot chocolate (yup) for tomorrow.