Run with me

I drive ten minutes to where I want to begin my run. I tie the lace of my shoes and step out onto the road. I'm wearing my beanie, my hoody, and my gloves. It is cold and the road is damp. Snow is lightly revealing itself on the ground.

Mountains understand me.

My legs start pushing the ground beneath me. I can see my breath. I breath in the crisp, perfect air. It soothes my body and my soul. Every step is rhythm and beat... my muscles giving into the music that tells stories of this atmosphere.

I can feel my entire body. It moves effortlessly. It feels like a dance.

Half way through, my leg muscles ache so I use my buttox, my back, and my ab muscles instead. They are happy to intervene for my tiring legs.

Nothing but delicious air and beautiful trees surround me.

This is were I belong. The only place I feel understood.

Riedell

These are my babies. They are relatively knew. I used to have Carrera sports, but these are custom made Reidells. Most of my skating has been done on skates with brakes on the fronts However, in competing, there is too much foot work, so I've had to take them off. As you can see, I still use my toes to stop- which is bad for my skates- obviously. My partner, who is an incredibly amazing skater, uses the sides of his wheels.

Having the ankles free and using four wheels makes for a great deal more versatility in one's ability to move.

My partner is the true talent. I am just along for the ride. We do a lot of what you would see figure skaters doing. We are often asked if we are indeed professional ice skaters. Cool huh? He is quite strong and can lift me and spin and do all sorts of crazy stuff all at the same time. He can do back flips and whas been on t.v. commercials and parades and has been asked to do half time shows for basketball and what not.

I'm the luck one because I'm the one being lifted! And that's about all I have to do. I was a ballerina up until high school and have I've done all sorts of dancing (jazz, lyrical, ballroom, salsa, country). My part was being athletic, strong, graceful, and have a liftable weight.

To be the lifter you must have the gift of coordination and daring-ness. My partner is responsible to lift me and my skates- a lot of weight- while spinning and throwing me around- he will flip me from beneath his legs over his shoulders and be spinning and hitting every position all the while.

When I compete- which I haven't done in some time- I have a great number of people watching me. Honestly, to me, it is the GREATEST rush- it beats running marathons, skiing, climbing, dancing, and everything else. There is NOTHING like it. It's like the music starts and it seeps into my very soul, into my blood- it makes me giddy with happiness just thinking about it. It simply engages all faculties. It employs a great deal coordination, strength, SPEED, and grace.... And yes, many sports do this also; however, the differnce is that there is an abundance of music and people around one's self while employing all your faculties... It's just awesome. What more can I say?

If you want to know what its like- please TRY IT. But be prepared to be surprised not only by how fun it is, but by how much harder it is than it looks. Ask every guy I've ever taken on a disco skating date... They will testify.

And if you do try- do it DISCO style. Disco skating is the funnest. It is 158.9999 times more fun than skating to other types of music.

maintaining a healthy level of insanity

20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity.
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car WithSunglasses on and point aHair Dryer At Passing Cars to see if they Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask IfThey Want Fries withThat.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It"In."
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten OverTheir Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "ForSmuggling Diamonds"
7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat witha serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don'tRhyme
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area AndPlay tropical Sounds AllDay.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their PartyBecause You're Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your WrestlingName, Rock Bottom.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!,I Won!"
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling"Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To TheEconomy, We Are Going ToHave To Let One Of You Go."
20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......

my dog

There is a tenuous line that my sister walks on... and her two legs are the only thing keeping her on the human side of that line, keeping her from being a creature of myth.

My sister is undeniably striking. Her hair is close to white- being that of the color of ripe lemons. Her eyes are a light brown-almost yellow. Her thick dark eyelashes frame her eyes, flavoring her swedish beauty with exoticness.

Our diametrical coloring does not keep us from being sisters. We make quite a pair, her and I. But I must admit that her beauty is much more profound than mine. It is her glowing skin perhaps. Her thick incandescent hair- how it drapes her back; nearly to her hips- transforming her gait into a mesmorizing dance.

I am not prone to jealousy. I love her for her laughing oblivion. And I love her probably even more for her beauty- I cannot deny it.

Alta's nature is unlike that of any female I've ever known. She is so completely devoid of artifice and guile, I've never known a girl to be so completely unaware of her effect. And her distant eyes are the evidence that though she walks on earth, she lives on some other land.

I love her. I am proud that she is my sister; she is not only the most beautiful creature I've ever beheld, but also the most hysterical.

She does everything very differently, but in a most natural manner- so natural that it makes you wonder if it was faux pas in the first place.

Tonight we washed the dishes. And as usual, before allowing any dish to enter the dishwasher, she would bring the plate up to her lovely lips, open her mouth, and continue to lick the plate until satisfied. Then she would put the plate into the machine and grab the next. She has done this since I can remember.

She has no concern for germs. None whatsoever. In fact she takes much more to the floor than she has ever taken to chairs... whether she is inside or outside.

And I don't think her odd manners have ever repulsed any man who has had the fortune of winning her adoration. If anything they seem to love her more for her oblivion. They end up in fits of laughter brought on by her odd mixture of gorgeousness, brilliance, and nonsense.

I believe she is the least human human I know.

=@Limits that equal Infinity@=

A simple calculus equation:

Evaluate both of the following limits.

Limit x as it approaches 3^-1 (2x/x-3)

Limit x as it approaches 3^+1 (2x/x-3)

Calculus is astounding. I have been infatuated with numbers since I can first remember being introduced to them. I persued a Mathematics degree at the University of Utah. I recall the time I decided to take accelerated Calculus from Proffesor Davis. Calculus I, II, and III. That summer consisted of five hours calculus every day- and innumerable hours in the study hall with the tutors whom we came to love and admire.

We ate, drank, slept calculus. I loved it.

The very contemplation of number generates incredible voltaged action potentials within my nerve cells (spoken from a nursing student).

There is something extraordinary and beautiful about equations.

Numbers.

How the Aesthetic shapes form symbols and produce theorums; solvents to Science, Engineering, and Philososhy.

They combine themselevs in an incredible elegance. An art form that attempts to explain the very performance of Matter.

It is an ineffible music. An ineffible poetry.

It is Mysticism; The Absolute Infinite, Elliptic curves, Modular Forms, and Quatratic reciprocity.

Why is Mathematics beautiful? Ask Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Paul Erdos, and Bertrand Russell.

power

Grant me the power to regard this spiritual world as a serious world. Give my eyes that which they lack so that they will better see only the surface of this life. Help me better understand my misfortunes that I will not expend one second of my time in unenlightened happiness. Forgive my spirit's folly for thinking it exists.

There is no power in claiming blindness when you are blessed with eyes.