Running Adds Up in More Ways Than One

• Body glide, $2.95: check


• New cool max top: $15: check


• Collection of non-blistering socks: $25: check


• New running shoes: $80: check


• Gu, and more gu: $10: check


• Whey protein, for homemade smoothies: $10: check


• Contribution to my group for awesome food brought to training site last week, to which effort I contributed nothing: $5: check


• Car registration up on June 30, today is July 2, hello! ticket: $100: check
  (and btw, did you know that you can be arrested driving with expired registration? oh yes, you can, but lovely officer chose not to do so, thank you thank you!)


• Speeding ticket on way to this morning's 6-mile training run (going 45 in a 25 mph zone—the car, not me, personally), 6:45 a.m., in front of Washington Monument, that symbol of liberty, truth, and hope: $100: check


• Number of fruitless hours spent turning office inside out trying to find registration renewal info: 3: check


• Number of fruitless hours at home doing same: 5: check


• Number of hours spent trying to pay registration online at Maryland's Department of Motor Vehicles: 2, on and off, because ONLINE REGISTRATION SYSTEM IS CONVENIENTLY BROKEN during July 4 holiday: check


• Number of hours spent trying to decide if venturing out again in car is worth the risk: 0 (know answer, except had to get hair dyed today): check


• Ran 6.5 miles by accident, instead of six, because we weren't paying attention (which is actually kinda cool): check


• Life apparently out of control: check

Over and out.