Last night, I found doing myself something I never thought I’d do - speed date.
While on vacation in North Carolina, on the way back from the beach, I received a text message from a female co-worker friend basically telling me to clear my calendar for July 16th because we were going speed dating. [...]

I mentioned it in a previous post and shouted about it on Facebook.
I have a new job!
I got the news last Thursday, literally as I was walking out the door to hit the road for my vacation in North Carolina. I resigned my position as a Data Management Associate at PPD and accepted [...]

Last Thursday, Megan, Sabrina, Nick and I piled into a car (a.k.a. “vehicular mullet,” courtesy of Nick - girls in the front, party in the back) and hit the road for Raleigh, North Carolina to visit the Staifers over the extended holiday weekend. We had started planning this trip a couple months ago [...]

It’s been about
three months, so let’s do a check up on
my goals for the year.

Run three 5ks or one 10k - Done!
Ran the Flying Pig 10K in May
Become and stay debt free, completing baby step 3 of Dave Ramsey’s plan - I was debt free in March and have stayed [...]

What are your thoughts on school pedigree? Does the name and reputation of a school lead to a higher salary and/or greater opportunities down the road? Is the increased cost of schools with a great pedigree worth it in the end?
As most of you know, I’m currently pursuing an MBA at Xavier [...]

Woohoo, classes are over for the semester! Ah, jessie, it feels good! My last final, on Thursday, was a killer. 78 accounting word problems. Yuck! I finished in a little over two hours, and I was the second or third done. I studied pretty well for this test, [...]

Woohoo! Flying Pig 10K Runner 21254 came in at 1:16:45 (unofficial time) 1:16:32 (official)!
Wow, what a morning! It was plenty cloudy and wet out, but the temperature was absolutely perfect! Nice day for a run, eh? Let’s start out with a check of my goals, then I’ll go into [...]

T-17 hours and counting. 8am tomorrow the pigs will start flying. Definitely can’t stay out late tonight since it’s so bright and early in the morning. Weather isn’t looking too good…thunderstorms and showers throughout the night, and throughout the race. The temperature looks just about right - mid 60s - [...]

Uh, oh, the
Flying Pig is only 18 days away - and I am NO WHERE NEAR ready for the 10k. I’m not even back up to where I left off last year! In June 2007, I ran the entire Redlegs’ 5k distance,
finishing in just over 30 minutes, both personal bests [...]

Over the week leading up to Easter, God stuck a couple things in my face that gave me pause for thought.
First was the recurring theme “if you had one week left to live, what would you do?”
Of course I had the typical “see the world”-type thoughts, but before that I had another thought, one [...]