happy hump day!

It's a little slow at work now, so I figured I'd seize the opportunity to make an entry. My run yesterday didn't go so well, I got just over a mile in and I started to have some pain in my legs (possibly shin splints) so I ended up doing a modified run and turn around, ran across the Longfellow and back to the Museum...it ended up being about 3 miles though, so all was not totally lost. Going to try again today and see if I can go for 6...the big race is only 10 days away...and I'm starting to get nervous/anxious/excited...I CAN do this.

Attempted to make pad thai Monday night for dinner and failed...miserably. It was pretty awful (super salty, noodles stuck together) but my roomates were good sports and tried it anyways. We ended up ordering wings.

I also realized that I've forgotten to blog about a movie I saw almost a month ago (the last time I went to the movies), I Love You, Man. TJ, Meg, Miss Alison Hay, Katie, Shari and I all ventured up to the loop at Methuen to see it - it was this crazy AMC theater, almost as ridiculous as the one on the Common. Anyways, I had been looking forward to seeing this for a while, the combination of Paul Rudd/Jason Segel seemed amazing, and I'm glad to report they didn't disappoint. Basically, Paul Rudd is getting married and he doesn't have any guy friends to be in his wedding, and develops a bromance with Jason Segel (I'm a little fuzzy on their initial meeting, but I remember it involving fish tacos and a vespa). Anyways, they hang out, become BFF's, and hilarity ensues. There's a great supporting cast, especially Jon Faverau and Jamie Pressly as a married couple and Andy Samberg as Paul Rudd's brother. There were definitely quite a few laugh out loud moments, and of course, all the good one liners that were given away in the trailer. It was clicking along at a great pace and kept my attention until about the last 20 minutes, when there was this kind of awkward road to the ending. I won't give anything away, but Segel did something that seemed not realistic/in character, and just seemed to be kind of thrown in there. Best scene? The toast Segel gives at the engagement party. Return the favor.
Grade: B+

Speaking of movies, there are quite a few out that I want to see (and I already missed one, Sin Nombre) so I might have to do a mini marathon this weekend...here's what I'm thinking
Thursday - Every Little Step
Friday/Saturday/Sunday - State of Play, Rudo y Cursi, Sugar (maybe) in any order, and maybe not all three
Monday - The Soloist
I'm not a huge Jamie Foxx fan, but I hear he's quite good in this, and Robert Downey Jr. is supposed to be giving the performance of his career...we'll see. In other news, the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened today - I can't believe I was there 3 years ago...I want to go back...BAD

Was lucky enough to go to the Sox game last Thursday when they had an offensive EXPLOSION in the 6th inning scoring TWELEVE runs. Mike and I joked that we came to see the Jeff Bailey or Rocco Baldelli home run, and it was kind of close, the both got 2 run doubles. It was pretty sweet considering we were bemoaning the fact the Ortiz, Youkilis and Ellsbury were all out of the line up that night. Alas, it was a major success!!

Speaking of baseball, Roger Clemens needs to either a. get a better PR person or b. keep his mouth shut. I'm going to go with the latter. He made the rounds yesterday defending himself and proclaiming his innocence against the way he's portrayed in a new book, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime. He was on ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning blabbering away, when they asked him point blank if he had taken steroids, which he flat out denied, saying "it would be suicidal for me to take steroids because our family has a history of heart conditions" he then went on to cite his brother having a heart attack and his step-dad dieing of a heart attack....newsflash to the Rocket: there's no blood-line between you and your step-dad, hence the preposition before dad...idiot. And Miss California ain't doin too much better, but I don't have the energy to waste on her, haha

If you haven't been watching Southland on NBC, you should be. It's an excellent new LA cop drama with an excellent cast and even better writing. I really hope that it can find its niche, because the last few new shows I've liked have sadly met an untimely demise, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone. Fortunately Mad Men is going strong, and seems like it will be around for a while.