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I briefly visited the "We are the 53%" website, but I first saw your face on a liberal blog. Your picture is quite popular on liberal blogs. I think it's because of the expression on your face. I don't know if you meant to look pugnacious or if we're just projecting that on you, but I think that's what gets our attention.
In the picture, you're holding up a sheet of paper that says:
I am a former Marine.
I work two jobs.
I don't have health insurance.
I worked 60-70 hours a week for 8 years to pay my way through college.
I haven't had 4 consecutive days off in over 4 years.
But I don't blame Wall Street.
Suck it up you whiners.
I am the 53%.
God bless the USA!
I wanted to respond to you as a liberal. Because, although I think you've made yourself clear and I think I understand you, you don't seem to understand me at all. I hope you will read this and understand me better, and maybe understand the Occupy Wall Street movement better.
First, let me say that I think it's great that you have such a strong work ethic and I agree with you that you have much to be proud of. You seem like a good, hard-working, strong kid. I admire your dedication and determination. I worked my way through college too, mostly working graveyard shifts at hotels as a "night auditor." For a time I worked at two hotels at once, but I don't think I ever worked 60 hours in a week, and certainly not 70. I think I maxed out at 56. And that wasn't something I could sustain for long, not while going to school. The problem was that I never got much sleep, and sleep deprivation would take its toll. I can't imagine putting in 70 hours in a week while going to college at the same time. That's impressive.
I have a nephew in the Marine Corps, so I have some idea of how tough that can be. He almost didn't make it through basic training, but he stuck it out and insisted on staying even when questions were raised about his medical fitness. He eventually served in Iraq and Afghanistan and has decided to pursue a career in the Marines. We're all very proud of him. Your picture reminds me of him.
So, if you think being a liberal means that I don't value hard work or a strong work ethic, you're wrong. I think everyone appreciates the industry and dedication a person like you displays. I'm sure you're a great employee, and if you have entrepreneurial ambitions, I'm sure these qualities will serve you there too. I'll wish you the best of luck, even though a guy like you will probably need luck less than most.
I understand your pride in what you've accomplished, but I want to ask you something.
Do you really want the bar set this high? Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week? Is that your idea of the American Dream?
Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week? Do you think you can? Because, let me tell you, kid, that's not going to be as easy when you're 50 as it was when you were 20.
And what happens if you get sick? You say you don't have health insurance, but since you're a veteran I assume you have some government-provided health care through the VA system. I know my father, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, still gets most of his medical needs met through the VA, but I don't know what your situation is. But even if you have access to health care, it doesn't mean disease or injury might not interfere with your ability to put in those 60- to 70-hour work weeks.
Do you plan to get married, have kids? Do you think your wife is going to be happy with you working those long hours year after year without a vacation? Is it going to be fair to her? Is it going to be fair to your kids? Is it going to be fair to you?
Look, you're a tough kid. And you have a right to be proud of that. But not everybody is as tough as you, or as strong, or as young. Does pride in what you've accomplish mean that you have contempt for anybody who can't keep up with you? Does it mean that the single mother who can't work on her feet longer than 50 hours a week doesn't deserve a good life? Does it mean the older man who struggles with modern technology and can't seem to keep up with the pace set by younger workers should just go throw himself off a cliff?
And, believe it or not, there are people out there even tougher than you. Why don't we let them set the bar, instead of you? Are you ready to work 80 hours a week? 100 hours? Can you hold down four jobs? Can you do it when you're 40? When you're 50? When you're 60? Can you do it with arthritis? Can you do it with one arm? Can you do it when you're being treated for prostate cancer?
And is this really your idea of what life should be like in the greatest country on Earth?
Here's how a liberal looks at it: a long time ago workers in this country realized that industrialization wasn't making their lives better, but worse. The captains of industry were making a ton of money and living a merry life far away from the dirty, dangerous factories they owned, and far away from the even dirtier and more dangerous mines that fed raw materials to those factories.
The workers quickly decided that this arrangement didn't work for them. If they were going to work as cogs in machines designed to build wealth for the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Carnegies, they wanted a cut. They wanted a share of the wealth that they were helping create. And that didn't mean just more money; it meant a better quality of life. It meant reasonable hours and better working conditions.
Eventually, somebody came up with the slogan, "8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, 8 hours of sleep" to divide the 24-hour day into what was considered a fair allocation of a human's time. It wasn't a slogan that was immediately accepted. People had to fight to put this standard in place. People demonstrated, and fought with police, and were killed. They were called communists (in fairness, some of them were), and traitors, and many of them got a lot worse than pepper spray at the hands of police and private security.
But by the time we got through the Great Depression and WWII, we'd all learned some valuable lessons about working together and sharing the prosperity, and the 8-hour workday became the norm…"
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thanks. it seems to work fine now but i think bounces still register, i guess that's a topic for the hardware forum.
i moved the readGET() function to a point before the transmission starts. thanks.
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Foreign Direct Investment In Emerging And Developed Economies
AbstractIn the context of globalization, the issue of foreign direct investments and theirinfluence on the development of the emerging economies, continues to be a topic of interest formany economic theories. The need, the importance and the effects of foreign directinvestments have attracted the attention of all the states and produced an intense competitionto attract the foreign capital. FDI inflows have a very important role in the establishment ofnew world economic powers. In the world economy, the foreign direct investment are orientedin major proportion to developed countries, but the interest in this type of investment isparticularly developed also in the emerging countries who need not only foreign capitalinflows, but also the modern managerial experience and access to markets. The aim of thispaper is to study and analyze the evolution of foreign direct investment in emerging anddeveloped economies in the last twenty years.
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Volume (Year): 1 (2012)
Issue (Month): 14 ()
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Related researchKeywords: foreign direct investment; emerging economies; developed economies; financial crisis;
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- de Mello, Luiz R, Jr, 1999.
"Foreign Direct Investment-Led Growth: Evidence from Time Series and Panel Data,"
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Oxford University Press, vol. 51(1), pages 133-51, January.
- L.R. de Mello Jr., 1996. "Foreign Direct Investment-Led Growth: Evidence from Time Series and Panel Data," Studies in Economics 9615, Department of Economics, University of Kent.
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Still above average
Being average is not good enough; at some point in time, it may have been but nowadays, it certainly won't get you passed the auditions for American Idol. The car business is pretty much the same; if you can't impress Simon Cowell, you're staying home or in this case, you're not leaving the showroom floor.
At its peak, the SUV segment was loaded with players available in all shapes and sizes, mediocre to excellent, and as I look through those that remain today in 2010, it is clear that only the strong have survived. Among those that are still around, we find the VW Touareg. Honestly, if I had been handed a crystal ball six years ago sporting an image of the 2010 Touareg along with rendering of the upcoming revamped 2011, I would not have believed it. You see, the 2004-05 Touareg was, in no uncertain terms, a bad truck.
Why did it survive then? You ask. Simple: Look at it. Not only is it handsome but it carries a sympathetic and upscale grin that everyone, not just a mother, can love. Beyond that, factor in a drive that had no rivals, be it on or off road, or damn near close to that, and you have yourself a highly desirable product.
There is something about Volkswagens that people keep coming back for. One of our last 2010 Golf test drives was punctuated with a few bugs but that, I say, is part of the experience. You can buy a Corolla if you want (I have just recently recommended the car for a co-worker) but I also strongly suggested Vdubs (a GTI and a Passat CC) to two other people that I regularly cross in the hallways of Auto123.com. It has to do with who you are and what you need to get out of your car.
It looks like a Volkswagen
If you stare at the thing (not the Thing...), you will surely notice body-lines and curves that are not unfamiliar to the Volkswagen family. Granted, the fascia is pure Volkswagen-Audi but if you concentrate on the rear fenders, hatch and bumper line, there's just something smooth and rounded about it that reminds me of VW's past.
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Putting together a primetime lineup takes more than just throwing darts at an empty schedule. (Well, most of the time.) As the networks put together their fall plans, it's up to the scheduling executives to parse test-audience scores, research data, producer pleas and gut instincts to determine which new and returning series should make it and when they should air.But sometimes serendipity ...
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Jarod is a Pretender--a genius whose exceptionally high I.Q. allows him to master virtually any profession. Since escaping from the Centre, the secret research facility where he was brought up after being taken from his parents, Jarod has managed to stay one step ahead of his ex-captors, Miss Parker and Sydney. Although still reeling from the death of his brother, Jarod also continues to make sure that justice is done by helping innocent victims wronged by society. But the search to bring Jarod back to the Centre is suddenly stepped up with the hiring of Brigitte and the mysterious Mr. Lyle. And it's soon clear that the two new Centre operatives are just as determined to bring about the downfall of Miss Parker and Sydney as they are to find the Centre's most prized specimen.
Jarod is a Pretender - a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will, be it doctor, test pilot or lawyer.
An intriguing drama about an enigmatic genius trained to masquerade as anyone, often using his intellect (and, when necessary, a bit of brawn) to help others. Jarod Russell goes on the lam to evade his pursuers, a diabolical cabal called the Centre, which had kidnapped him as a child.
Putting together a primetime lineup takes more than just throwing darts at an empty schedule. (Well, most of the time.) As the networks put together their fall plans, it's up to the scheduling executives to parse test-audience scores, research data, producer pleas and gut instincts to determine which new and returning series should make it and when they should air.But sometimes serendipity ...
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Question: Is it just me, or is Burn Notice similar to The Pretender? Michael Westen is seeking answers from a covert organization, but at the same time he is running from that organization (much like Jarod and the Centre). He also spends every episode using the skills that organization taught him to help an innocent person and bring a perpetrator to justice (just as Jarod did). Maybe the connection seems stronger to me because Jeffrey Donovan played Jarod's brother in The Pretender and I'm still pining for the third and final Pretender movie, but I definitely see similarities (although Burn Notice takes a slightly more lighthearted approach). Given the success of Burn Notice, it seems to me that The Pretender was simply ahead of its time. Would you agree? Do you think there is any chance Pretender fans will ever get any closure in the form of a final movie or miniseries?
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Question: Thanks for your support of Invasion this season. I was a little sad but not surprised to see that it had been canceled. I consider it a fascinating experiment that yielded some wonderful results, like Shaun Cassidy's other series, American Gothic, although it certainly wasn't for all tastes. Best of all, it brought the talents of William Fichtner, who was able to simultaneously convey both menacing and sympathetic qualities, to my attention. I will miss Sheriff Underlay most of all. I don't consider it a "waste of time" to have taken a chance on a series that had a high chance of failure. It was worth it to see something interesting and a little different. So tell us what you think now that the decision's in. What do you think about Invasion and about investing time and love in low-chance shows?
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The U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the U.S. against bank failure. The FDIC was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices.
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The FDIC will insure deposits of up to US$250,000 per institution as long as the bank is a member firm.
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Lenders Mortgage Insurance (often abbreviated to LMI) is a once off insurance premium paid by the borrower to protect the bank. It's required by most lenders on loans that are seen as higher risk by the lender (generally greater than an 80% loan-to-valuation ratio).
For more information on loan-to-valuation ratios you may wish to read know how banks evaluate risk.
Lenders Mortgage Insurance Covers the Bank
It's important to note that lenders mortgage insurance does not protect the borrower in any way.
It offers protection for the bank in case the loan goes bad and the lender is unable to recover the money they've lent and associated costs. In the event of default the mortgage insurer will reimburse the bank for any losses incurred and then pursue legal means against the borrower.
Lenders Mortgage Insurance covers the lender if things go wrong. Income protection or life insurance policies can assist in covering your own personal situation if bad times hit. It is important to consider your own risk insurances when applying for a loan.
As part of my service I always offer to refer interested clients to a qualified financial planner to assist with their own protection.
How Lenders Mortgage Insurance is Paid
The way in which lenders mortgage insurance is paid varies between all banks and lenders.
Most institutions will allow you to add the premium payment on top of your loan. This is known as capitalisation of your premium. By doing this you're paying off the mortgage insurance premium over time rather than in a lump sum (which would require you to have additional funds and may affect your ability to purchase).
Some banks will allow you to capitalise mortgage insurance up to their maximum loan-to-valuation ratio (usually 90% or 95%).
Other lenders will allow you to add it on top up to 2% (in some instances you may have to partially pay for the mortgage insurance or increase your contribution). A select few lenders will allow you to borrow the full 95% and then fully capitalise the mortgage insurance premium (this often ends up being a 98%+ loan).
A small number of lenders may require you to pay the mortgage insurance separately.
A knowledgeable mortgage broker can show you ways to structure your loan to keep your mortgage insurance premium as low as possible.
How Much Does it Cost?
The cost of lenders mortgage insurance depends on a number of factors including:
- Total amount to be borrowed
- Purpose for borrowing
- First Home Buyer or Next Home Buyer/Investor
- Choice of bank/lender
- Loan-to-valuation ratio before mortgage insurance is capitalised
The chart below gives an indication of how mortgage insurance premiums increase (as a percentage of loan amount) relative to the loan-to-valuation ratio. It is important to note the big jump from a 90% loan-to-valuation ratio compared to 91%.
Saving Money on Lenders Mortgage Insurance
The cost of lenders mortgage insurance varies significantly from bank to bank. One of the advantages of using my mortgage broking service rather than going to the bank direct is that I can often save you significant amount on mortgage insurance premiums.
Ways in which I can do this include:
- Comparing rates of mortgage insurance between financial institutions.
- Showing you how contributing a little extra money can bring you down a risk tier and save you thousands.
- Ensuring securities aren't cross-collateralised to reduce your costs and protect your interests rather than the banks (important for investors!).
Whilst you never want to pay more than necessary Lenders Mortgage Insurance should not just be seen as an extra cost to pay. Knowledgeable purchasers recognise it's a tool to grow investment portfolios quicker or enter the market sooner. I'll be covering these topics in future articles.
If you're interested in obtaining finance for your mortgage please get in contact with me to see how I can assist.


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I couldn't find a website for the restaurant or pool. There was an article online saying something about memberships..
I am wondering what the restaurant's hours are, and if the public can use the pool one way or the other?
I'd call them if I knew their number. Guess it'd be the office of Tierra Alta


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The Appalachian Fair has been an annual tradition in our region for more than 85 years, and each year organizers try to make the fair bigger and better.
Thursday morning, organizers released details about this year's fair, with the James H. Drew midway the center attraction as always at the fair.
The Fairest of the Fair contest, the Youth Talent contest, and the Battle of the Bands will highlight the offerings on the Museum Stage.
Stars from country music, contemporary Christian, and bluegrass will headline the entertainment on the main stage through out the week long run of the fair.
According to fair Manager Phil Booher, "Well I just think people like to see something different all the time you know...and a lot of people don't like one thing but they like something else and we try to be diversified and meet every body's needs that we can.
Entertainment at the Appalachian Fair kicks of with country star Easton Corbin on Monday August 19th.
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Muskogee Man Sets World Records
Muskogee resident Brian Jackson is no stranger to the Guinness World Record book, but his feat may seem like a lot of hot air to some people.
Jackson holds the record for the heaviest vehicle lifted with breath. It's a record he has set several times, most recently during a competitive event in China. Jackson and his Chinese challenger both attempted to lift 3,000 pounds by blowing air through a hose into a giant balloon. It was a multi-stage event in which both Jackson and the challenger kept tying each other's record until the winner was declared.
Both men lifted the car in the first phase. Next, a woman sat in the car, adding weight, and both men again were successful. In the third stage, another 100 pounds was added and that's when the challenger struggled. Jackson blew into the balloon and lifted a total of 3,395 pounds, setting the new Guinness World Record, and beating his old record. He's been invited back to China this year to defend the record.
In the meantime, Jackson plans to attempt to lift a semi Easter 2014. If he succeeds, it will add to his list of Guinness World Records that involve lung strength. Those records range from lifting the heaviest vehicle to blowing a golf ball from his mouth to a distance of more than 18 feet.
Jackson says he pursues the records to represent the United States, Oklahoma and Native Americans. In addition, he seeks to be an inspiration and serves as a motivational speaker at local schools and has founded a website and initiative known as the "I Believe Guy."


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You see the signs, the dog has trouble getting to its feet and struggles getting up the stairs. Ideally, before these signs develop, take action to help maintain your dogs joint health.
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|24 Jan 2010
Windows 7 Killed My Internet Speed
Thank you in advance for anyone brave enough to attack this mystery of the ages.
The bottom line is that my wireless internet connection speed has plummeted following installation of Windows 7. I have AT&T Uverse fiber optic service (2WIRE modem) with max download speeds of 6.0 Mbps. When I plug the Ethernet cable directly into the modem I achieve nearly that speed. When using the wireless connection I get from 1 to 3 Mbps (at best). I have been testing the speeds with speedtest.net using my local San Diego test server. Furthermore, my wifes laptop, which is also on the home wireless network, is old, uses VISTA, and gets near max download speed every time. I am using a new HP Pavillion dv6 laptop (product number FV161AV) with a Broadcom 802.11g wireless adapter. I have tried letting windows 7 pick the best driver, I have downloaded what are supposed to be the correct drivers for this model from HP, and have downloaded various drivers from Broadcom none of which have worked. Interestingly, occasionally, immediately after new driver installation the download speed will be very high, but then seems to drop with each successive testing. The hardware IDs for the adapter are:
See attached pics for additional specs of computer, devices, and drivers...
I am running out of ideas .if there is any additional information that would be helpful I would be happy to provide it. Please forgive me if I am leaving some crucial information out right now I am a bit frazzled.
Thanks again to those that can help.
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Have you checked this page for the latest Broadcom drivers?
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I know it says xp drivers, but toward the bottom of the page it lets you select Windows 7 32 or 64 bit. If you haven't checked it, it may be worth your time.
Hope it helps.
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
What was your machine running previously?
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Re: aem This notebook came with VISTA installed.
Re: Cato I will try some of those drivers and see if any work. Will let you know.
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Blackwater is a populated place located in Laurel County at latitude 37.053 and longitude -83.895.
The elevation is 1,201 feet. Blackwater appears on the Blackwater U.S. Geological Survey Map. Laurel County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
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Florham Park, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) - With wide receivers Santonio Holmes and Stephen Hill sidelined because of injuries, the New York Jets brought in free agent wideout David Nelson on Wednesday.
Nelson spent three seasons with Buffalo from 2010-12 and racked up 94 catches for 1,042 yards and eight touchdowns in 32 games, including 17 starts.
The 26-year-old Florida product posted his best season in 2011, hauling in 61 passes for 658 and five touchdowns while starting 13 games.
Holmes, who has 10 catches for 243 yards and one touchdown this season, is expected to be out a few weeks due to a hamstring injury suffered in Sunday's loss to the Tennessee Titans.
The Jets are also expected to be without Hill, who suffered a concussion on Sunday, when they face the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night.
The Jets released wide receiver Ben Obomanu to make room for Nelson on the roster, while adding linebacker Troy Davis to the practice squad and releasing Kareem Huggins from the practice squad.
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From JPM: Amsterdam protected to a flood of most severe storm every 10,000 years; Tokyo, Shanghai and London to 1,000; NY only to 100 year
RT @TahoeWeather: Forecast models this morning showing the storms stronger for this week. High elevation snows but measured in feet.
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Mario Paint (1992) was a painting game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, featuring Mario. It was the first game to use the SNES Mouse peripheral, and came bundled with it.The game had various activities: making images using brushes, stamps, and patterns; creating animations; creating music (which could be used in the animations); loading pre-defined images to color or edit in any other manner; and creating custom stamps. Mario Paint also had a well-known minigame called "Coffee Break" (also referred to as "Gnat Attack" in the manual), in which you had to swat flies to progress through the level, going on forever until you lost all of your lives from getting hit by the flies. This minigame would later be featured in Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$.It is worth noting that the first animated Homestar Runner cartoon was animated using Mario Paint.It later got a Spiritual Successor, Mario Maker.Any videos of the music-making subgame can go here.
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The Importance of Rest Days for Runners
When getting involved in a new training plan or fitness regimen, it can be tempting to go overboard. It's happened to me many times, and I've seen it happen to others when I'm working at the gym. The first two weeks are full of ambition and energy. Whether that means waking up extra early to hit the weight machines, an hour on the treadmill, spin classes every day or a combination of all of those…most people have a tendency to overdo it. Enthusiasm for fitness and new habits it great, but it's important to keep your routine and your activities sustainable. That's why the rest day is so important.
According to Runner's World magazine: "Years of research disprove the notion that a day off wrecks fitness; in fact, the opposite is true. …When it follows difficult bouts of work, rest lets your body adapt to the work and improve. Without recovery, adaptation may occur short-term, but ultimately it will fail. And since most injuries come from overuse, a day of cross-training, rest, or easy miles can prevent three-or four-week forced breaks caused by, say, ITB syndrome."
A day off during your training routine restocks glycogen stores, builds strength, and reduces fatigue, in addition to reducing the risk of overuse injuries and mental burnout.
Hal Higdon, the godfather of modern run training, concurs: "The most important day in any beginning or intermediate running program is rest. Rest days are as vital as training days. They give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Actually, your muscles will build in strength as you rest. Without recovery days, you will not improve."
How much rest you need depends on many factors and is ultimately dependant on your own body and needs. Some experienced runners find that one day a week off is sufficient, though others need 2-3 days a week for ideal muscle recovery.
There are a few ways to incorporate rest into a program, but I prefer to have scheduled days where I don't run or work out. If my brain really needs the mental release of a workout, I'll do some cross training, very light weight training, walking or yoga.
For my current marathon training program, my rest days are Monday and Sunday (or Friday), with cross training on Friday (or Sunday). For the beginner running group that I'm teaching at City Fitness, I'm recommending running Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with either resting or very light cross training in between.
To recap: Rest days aren't about being lazy. It's about building improvement and recovery time into your training program.
Here's one of the fliers I made for the running clinic that I'm teaching! If you're in Philly and are interested in getting into running, I'd love to have you in the group.
The plan is to meet twice per week in the evenings, for about 45 minutes. I'll guide everyone through stretches, explain the program for the evening and then we'll start with a brisk warm-up, followed by intervals of timed fast walking, running and sprinting (only a little, I promise!). Over the course of the 12 sessions, the walking portions will be shorter and fewer and the running will be longer. Eventually, you'll be running the whole time at your own pace.
I'm also going to send weekly emails to keep everyone motivated, with suggestion for running/walking activities for the rest of the week.
Eeeeee, so excited for this! Just a reminder, this is open to members and the public. And when you think about it, it's only about $4-6 per session. Yay!
It's a day of work hard, treat yourself, work hard, treat yourself.
First, I got a snazzy manicure after the completion of a hellish project at work (we finished Tuesday and I was supposed to redeem a complementary massage that evening, but was only duped by marketing. But that's a story for another day. Egads!). This was a lovely treat, though. Gorgeous color! "I'm Not Really A Waitress" by OPI.
Now I'm feeling pretty great after this evening's run. I've been working my way through a Couch to 5k program using the free Run 5k app. I accidentally clicked to Week 3 instead of Day 3, but it wasn't all that difficult. The 28 minute sessions go quickly and it's helpful to have a voice prompt over my playlist, though after suggestions from a pro, I'm going to need to be wary of getting dependent on my gadgets during workouts.
This evening was perfect weather to be outside. Running in our neighborhood is tricky, since it's all hills and cul-de-sacs with abruptly ending sidewalks. It's cheating a bit, but I alternated this session by doing the running cycles on flat or downhill areas and went uphill during the walking cycles. I only ran two miles but it felt good and that's the point. Eventually I'll get to a faster pace (currently between 11 and 13 minutes per mile, but I'm not trying for speed).
The other treat-yo-self part? My go-to after workout meal: beans cooked in olive oil, avocado, soy sauce and a sunny side up egg.
This weekend I'm looking forward to spin class on Saturday and yoga on Sunday, followed by brunch with some fun ladies.


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"/British English talking/"
"#Australian English talking#"
Deep red-chestnut brown eyes closed in sleep. Arisu woke up in her clinic bed all alone when the sun rose. Her roommate lied asleep in the other bed on the other side of the room. Sid lied awake in his bed with the photo of Arisu that Shuichi had taken months ago lying on his chest. Once again, he had messed up with his dream girl. Casper turned over in her bed asleep. The cold pillow next to her just didn't right anymore. At his bedroom window, Simon looked at a picture of his ex girl in her bikini on the beach two years ago. He missed her badly. Outside, Bill and Katie were taking Darcy to her private school. They still didn't trust him that much with her. Emma lie asleep in Ken-san's bed. Ken-san himself sat on his bed feeling guilty. His affair with the Aussie had gone on for months now. This had got to stop. Ando deeply slept in his bed. He was off in a good dream land.
"Mmmm," he mumbled in his sleep. "Do that again!" The picture of Sopheap with her sickle rested on his chest. Suddenly, the phone rang. He slowly awoke and answered it.
"Hey Shuichi," he answered.
"Happy birthday, Ando," the vocalist replied in bed.
"You f**d up my dream, Shuich," his former friend said.
"What was it?" Shuichi asked.
"Ah, the usual," Ando answered. "Cambodian virgins." He looked at the photo next to him.
"Good Buddhist boys don't dream about virgins," the vocalist pointed out.
"Yeah?" Ando asked. "Well, that's where you're wrong, Shuich. That's all we dream of!" Silence came between the boys. The mood became serious. Ando just had to ask. "Will you come to my birthday party, Shuich?" he asked. The vocalist sighed.
"Did you tell your mom and grandfather about Yuki and I?" he asked. Ando sighed. They just couldn't avoid the big white elephant.
"I don't know!" he expressed in that tone.
"I can't come unless you tell them, An!" Shuichi replied.
"Shuichi, it won't be right if you don't turn up to my birthday party!" Ando argued.
"Sixteen, really?" his friend asked. "This is the year of telling the truth. The truth, yes Ando?" He hung up the phone. Ando hung up the phone and lied back in defeat. This was stupid now. Why couldn't they just end it and be done with it already? Just didn't make sense. Ando climbed out of bed naked and walked over to the window. He stretched out some. Finally, his mom and brothers all rushed into his bedroom unannounced.
"Happy birthday!!!" they all yelled to him. Ando screamed as he tried to cover himself. The mom and brothers screamed out too. Ando grabbed the curtain and covered his lower part up.
"Mom, get out!!!" he yelled. The shouting, laughter, and chatter really fired up.
"It's tiny!" one of the brothers remarked. They all hurried out laughing and chattering.
"Get out!" their mom yelled as she shoved them out. She turned back to her son! She screamed out again. Ando looked on shocked.
"Mom!" he yelled.
"A respectful boy at least wears something in bed!" she snapped as she threw a pair of boxers at him. Ando looked on at her in shock. His mom's face softened.
"Happy birthday, Ando-kun!" she said as she pinched him on the cheek.
"I'm sixteen, I'm not a –kun anymore!" he protested.
"So it would seem," his mom said as she walked out of the room. "Now hurry up! Everyone's waiting downstairs for you!" Ando sighed as he shook his head and pressed his face against the window.
Subject: Everyone
Sid stood at his window in his boxers looking out. He was thinking about Arisu again. It became official. He just had to tell her how he felt. He turned around to his desk. The dullard sat down and picked up a pen and a notepad. He just right to work. "/Dear Arisu,/" Sid said as he began writing. No good, so he balled it up and threw it away. He started again.
"Hi Arisu," the dullard said aloud on attempt two. No good there either. The note got balled up and thrown away. Take three. "/Hey Arisu,/" he said out loud. That didn't work. "/Bollocks!/" Sid yelled as he threw that one away. He took a moment to think about it. Then, the boy got to work once again.
"/Arisu,/" he began a fourth time.
"Dear Sid," Arisu began writing with her own letter. "It isn't easy to tell you this, so that's why I'm writing. Don't try to call me, because you're not allowed to here. Anyway, I don't want to speak to you and there is nothing you can say to change this."
"/I'm shite with words,/" Sid wrote on. "/Everything always comes out so… crap. But, I've been doing some thinking and everything is getting clearer./"
"My brother, Jin, thinks that things aren't working out, so mom and I are going to Ulan Bator for the summer," Arisu wrote on. "It's in Mongolia. And everyone's happy there."
"/The thing is, Ari,/" Sid wrote on. "/I've woken up this morning and the sun's shining through the window and it's making me think of you! Arisu, it's not right of you to be hiding away in that clinic. You've got to get out in the world./"
"They're coming for me tonight," Arisu wrote on. "And then, I'll be gone and we won't have to play this silly game anymore!"
"/Arisu, I don't care if you think you're a reject,/" Sid wrote on. "/Because I feel like singing when I see you. You're beautiful and I've been such a f***g chapstick these past few weeks. I know I want is sit on top of Tokyo Tower and hold you and tell you how wonderful you are and stick my hand down your knickers!/" He paused for a moment and crossed the knickers bit out. "/No!/" Sid said quickly. "/Jesus!/" He began writing once more. "/And…/" he said.
"And I wanted you to know that I really liked you, Sid," Arisu wrote on.
"/And…/" Sid mumbled.
"And it's too late now," Arisu began to finished up. "Goodbye."
"/I love you,/" Sid said out loud. He quickly got up and got dressed for his little love quest. "/For f**k sake,/" he mumbled to himself in the process. Arisu read on at her note while her roommate drink her word. Every word on the paper hurt. Sid rushed out the door and realized he forgot the note. Oh well, couldn't worry about that now. He hurried out the gate and ran down the street to his muse. His shoes were mismatched, but he didn't care. The dullard had a quest to complete.
At Ken-san's apartment, the doorbell rang. Emma slowly woke up. "#Ken,#" she said. "#There's someone at your door.#" The sensei looked up at her.
"Yeah," he said quickly. He turned back to the window as the doorbell rang.
"#Ken,#" Emma spoke again. "#Are you ashamed of me?#"
"Of course I'm f***g ashamed of you!" he replied.
"#Pussy!#" Emma replied. "#Right, I'll just see whatever it is!#" She leapt right out of bed.
"No!" Ken-san replied. His girlfriend turned around to him. "Just stay there! For Christ sakes!" Emma watched as he walked out of the room. The Aussie shrugged at that one. Ken-san opened the door. He looked on in surprise.
"Oh Christ!" he said shocked. A buxom Japanese woman with flowers in her hand turned around to her. She grinned at him like a hyena.
"Kenisuke!" she replied. Ken-san stared blankly at her. This was the last person on the person he had ever expected to see.
"Yuko?" he asked. "When did you get back?"
"Now!" the woman replied.
"Yuko-chan," the sensei spoke up. "You can't just do this! We need to talk!" The woman walked closer and kissed him on the lips.
"Kenisuke, you know you miss me!" she said.
"This isn't fair!" the man protested. Yuko looked on at him confused.
"Where's the ring I gave you?" she asked.
"I threw it in the f***g harbor, okay?" Ken-san snapped. Yuko looked on slightly disappointed.
"#Ken-san!#" Emma spoke up as she walked down the stairs. The former couple looked up at her.
"#What ring?#" the Aussie asked. She stared at the woman confused.
Ando walked down the stairs at his house. He could hear his family fussing in the kitchen. He sighed as he kept on walking. The front door closed. The boy looked up and saw an old man hanging up his jacket. He turned to the boy and looked at him.
"Where were you?" he asked.
"Sorry," Ando replied. "Slept in."
"Slept in?" the old man asked. "You explain yourself with an excuse like that?"
"Grandfather," Ando defended himself. "It's my birthday!" The old man walked on. Ando turned to him.
"Aren't you going to say hello?" he asked. The man turned around to him on the stairs.
"I'm been at the stalls since three o'clock yesterday," he replied. "Fifty two customers, not that you care!" Ando rolled his eyes and sighed a bit.
"It's a stupid fuss over a birthday party!" the old man went on. "Does it give respect to Buddha? Does it promote peace?"
"No grandfather," the boy replied.
"Does it help the poor? It's a front!" the old man finished.
"So why do we have to do it anyway?" Ando challenged. "I don't even want a party!"
"Because, I love that woman like my own late son! More than these legs I drag myself on." the old man reasoned. "And whatever she wants, she gets. Already?" Ando looked down at his feet some.
"Shuichi here yet?" his grandfather asked. Ando looked up at him some.
"Um… no…" he said.
"We don't see him these days," the man replied. Ando looked over at him.
"We had a fight," he said.
"A fight?" the grandfather asked. "You fight with your friends?" His grandson looked away again.
"Yeah," he mumbled.
"What would you fight Shuichi about?" the old man demanded. "He's a good boy! Knows what he wants in life, energetic, well-respectful, the best kind!" Ando sighed as he shook his head.
"Never mind," he replied.
"Whatever it is," the old man went on. "Forgive him and don't be an idiot. Now tell them I'm sleeping, okay?" The old man went up the stairs. Ando sighed as he went into the kitchen. He opened the door and went inside. Everyone was talking and working hard.
"Auntie, can I have one?" one of the younger cousin asked Ando's mom.
"No, you can't! Now get out of my kitchen!" she snapped. Ando walked in further. His mother ranted on and on about the cousin. But then, she turned and saw her baby. Everyone squealed out in joy.
"There he is!" she called.
"Happy birthday!" everyone yelled at him. One of his aunt rushed forward to him.
"Hi aunt Ruka!" he mumbled to her. She kissed him and patted him on the cheeks.
"Aw, he's got a mustache!" she announced. "Ando-kun's a got a mustache!"
"I know Ando-kun's got a mustache!" his oldest brother shouted back as he waved his pinky in the air. The men all laughed at that one. His mother stared on at him.
"Why aren't you saying hello to auntie Chiyo and uncle Kazuma?" she demanded.
"Sorry," he mumbled.
"+Whazz up!+" Kazuma yelled at his nephew.
"They came all the way from Washington D.C. and they don't even get a hello?!?" Ando's mother said. The boy looked a little nervous.
"Hello Uncle Kazuma," he said to the uncle.
"Ando!" he said out loud as he walked over to his nephew. "So, twenty at last, huh?" The boy looked at him confused.
"Nah," his nephew replied. "Nah, I'm sixteen." Kazuma stared at him disappointed.
"What?!?" he asked. "He's sixteen?!?"
"Yes," the boy's mother responded. "What's the problem?"
"You drag me here, all this way—I paid money to ride the Bullet train! Money! Just to ride the train to come to a sixteenth birthday party?!? Huh?!?" Kazuma ranted. Awkward silence all around the kitchen. Ando swallowed hard. Kazuma burst out into laughter. Everyone laughed along with him.
"Got you!" the uncle boomed. "I had you going, didn't I? Didn't I?" He shook the boy around by the shoulder.
"That's so funny!" the mother said playfully hitting Kazuma on the shoulder. "That's so funny, big brother!" The rest of the family got lost in the laughter. Ando rolled his eyes to himself.
"Every f***g year!" he mumbled to himself. Then, he walked out of the kitchen.
Meanwhile, back in the clinic, Arisu and her roommate were playing mahjong. Her roommate had won once again. Arisu stared on amazed.
"You're just too good," she muttered to her.
"Of course!" the roommate chirped. "I had to do something to stay away from the meth." The girls sat in silence. Arisu's roommate watched her.
"When is your brother coming?" she asked.
"Later," Arisu replied as she looked down at the table. "He packed up everything already," she went on. "Even momma's empty liquor bottles."
"Bummer," the other girl replied. Arisu turned to her.
"You want to get out of here?" she asked out of the blue.
"Huh?" the other girl asked.
"Let's go!" Arisu pressed. Her roommate giggled a bit.
"Uh… we're not allowed!" she replied.
"Come on!" her friend pushed. "I want one last look before the summer comes!" The roommate shrugged a bit.
"What if we have craving for more drugs?" she asked. "There's… There's meth out there, you know?"
"Come on!" Arisu insisted. The other girl looked at her reluctantly.
"Huh?" she asked at last.
"It's easy!" the first mental girl chirped. She leapt up out of her seat. Her roommate followed behind. They walked over to the front desk. Arisu smiled at the receptionist.
"We're just getting a breath of fresh air," she lied. "My friend thinks she wants to puke!" Her roommate pretended to be sick.
"Go!" the receptionist said quickly. "For crap's sakes, go!" The girls hurried all the way outside. They made it to the taxi and climbed inside. The plan was a success. The taxi sped away as Sid raced up to the clinic building. He raced up to the main doors. The dullard pressed the call button.
"/Hello?/" he shouted into the speaker.
"Boko Mental Institution and Rehabilitation center," the reception said on the other line.
"/Can you help me?/" Sid asked. "/I really, really need to come in! I know you don't like it, but I need to come in! Okay?/" Inside the lobby, Sid said waiting. This place looked more like a museum than a clinic. Sid didn't care. He just came to see his beloved Arisu. A nurse walked by him in the waiting room. She paused when she saw the dullard.
"Hello," she greeted him. "How my I help you?" Sid stood up right away.
"/Yes, yes,/" he said. "/I need to see someone! It's very important! There's something I've got to get off of my chest and if I don't, then I'm afraid that everything will totally go to shit!" The nurse looked on at him as he spoke.
"Right…" she said listening.
"/I've got something going on,/" Sid pressed on. "/And… I need to see someone. I've got something going on in here!/" He accidently patted Scooby-Doo on his shirt when he was touching his heart.
"Scooby Dooby Doo!" the shirt yelled. That only confirmed the nurse's initial thought about the boy: he was just another loony that needed help.
"Okay…" she replied. "Let's see if we can fix you up, shall we? Just you wait right there." She handed away down the hall.
"/Aw, thanks!/" Sid said loudly. "/I don't know what this means, but…/" Two large men all dressed in white came along and grabbed him by the arms. Sid looked around confused.
"/What?/" he asked. "/What's going on? What are you doing? Let go of me! Come on! You don't understand! ARISU!!!!/" The men hauled him away and locked him up in a white, padded cell. The dullard looked out of the narrow window still lost about what's going on.
"/Hey!/" Sid yelled. "/I'm not mad for f**k sake! I'm fine! I'm fine!/" The doctor closed up the window. Meanwhile, Emma stood outside of Ken-san's apartment having a smoke. She had just come to a bitter reality. Ken-san's former finacee had returned and now she wanted what she thought was hers. Emma would not stand for this. No way, no how! Just thinking about it made her want to light up. She dug down deep into her jeans pocket and pulled out her lighter. The Aussie tried to light out with no success. The darn thing just wouldn't light up. Even shaking the lighter didn't work. Emma threw down the lighter in frustration.
"#For f**k sake!#" she shouted. Ken-san looked out the window at her. He opened up the ring box and took out the promise ring. It still looked as charming as the day he bought it with Yuko. He had a tough choice to make. Get back with the woman who left him or stay with the girl that he is ashamed to be with. Such a touch call to make. Ken-san looked out the window and saw Yuko heading over to Emma. Worried, the teacher picked up his cell phone and dialed his lover. Emma picked up the phone immediately.
"#What?#" she asked.
"Leave her alone!" Ken said quickly. Emma took offensive at that.
"#What the f*k Ken?!?#" she screamed. "#What the f*K?!?" She hung up her phone and stormed over to the other woman. Ken-san looked down at his feet in guilt. This would not go well at all. Emma trailed after Yuko as she walked down the street.
"#Hey!#" the Aussie shouted. "#Hey I wanna talk to you!#" Yuko didn't stop and turn around.
"Talk away, hon!" she said without a care in the world. Emma caught up with her on the street.
"#Wha- Aren't you going to tell me who the f**k you are?!?#" she shouted.
"I'm the finacee!" Yuko said proudly. Emma shook her head in disbelief.
"#Ha! No you're not!#" she snapped.
"Yes, I am!" Yuko insisted. Emma shook her head again.
"#Since when?!?#" she barked.
"Since I asked him to marry me!" the older woman said confidentially. The Aussie didn't know what to say at first. Her words came out all jumbled up.
"#Where the f**k did you come from?!?#" she shouted. Yuko stopped dead in her tracks and turned around.
"I'm Yuko, he gave me, I'm the love of his life, and I'm back!" she summed up. "Oh you don't stand chance, bitch! Not even with that beautiful little crotch of yours!" Emma stared on in silence as she watched Yuko walk away down the street.
"#Wha- He… He told you?!?#" she asked.
"He tells me everything, girl!" Yuko shouted. "I can see into his soul. Now, do us a favor and disappear, okay?" Emma ran up to the other woman.
"#No, no!#" Emma protested. "#He can see into my soul!#" Yuko looked at her as if the girl had lost her mind.
"How old are you?" she asked.
"#Seventeen,#" Emma replied.
"You haven't got a soul yet!" Yuko snapped. "And with any luck, you haven't got crabs either! Quit while you're ahead! And with that I bid you, sayonara!" Yuko walked away while Emma stared on in silence. She felt as if she had been bitch-slapped as her rival got into her car and drove off.
Darcy stared out at the view of the city on a park bench. Casper walked over and joined her. She turned to her little friend.
"/Hi Darcy,/" the hippie said. Darcy didn't speak. Casper got set up a bit in her place.
"/You're bro just called me,/" she said. "/We're not speaking./" Darcy still said nothing. The hippie looked over at her.
"/I heard things got a bit out of control last week,/" Casper spoke. "/You feeling better?/" The young girl didn't speak. Casper giggled a bit.
"/Is that why they sent you to a posh school?/" the hippie asked. "/You think that'll sort you out?/" Darcy still didn't talk. She did smile a bit. Casper laughed at the thought of Darcy turning into an angel. She went quiet and looked out at the view.
"/School on a Saturday?/" the hippie asked. "/Hardcore./" Silence still lingered on. Casper looked over at her young friend.
"/Why don't you speak, Darcy?/" she asked. "/Doesn't anyone ask you why? It must mean something?/" The younger sister turned to Casper and said nothing. The hippie looked at her.
"/Doesn't anybody care?/" she asked. Darcy still didn't answer. Casper looked away at the ground.
"/Simon really hurt me, Darcy,/" she mumbled. "/Why did he do that? Sometimes I think you are the only person in the world that Simon truly cares about. I thought maybe… Maybe he told you why he did that./" Darcy shook her head. Casper sighed.
"/If I trust him to tell the truth just once,/" the hippie went on. "/Then maybe I could…/" She went quiet at that thought. She sighed again. What would be the point? She turned to Darcy.
"/It was nice seeing you, Darcy,/" the hippie said. "/I'm glad you're okay./" She gave the girl a light hug.
Simon watched his former bird on camera, Casper kissed at the lens. "/I love you, Si!/" she said.
"/You're cute!/" Simon said to her. "/You're going to be on Love Attack! next!/"
"/No!/" she said quickly. "/If you do that, I'll kill you!/"
"/Yes, you are!/" Simon told her. "/You're going to be famous! You're going to be really famous!/"
"/But if you want to be famous, you have to have huge boobs and blonde hair,/" Casper reasoned with the hand motions. "/And I don't have neither./" She smiled at him in a cute way. "/You like me like that, huh?/" the hippie asked.
"/I love you like that,/" Simon told her. His bird giggled at her him again.
"/You know what you should do,/" he suggested. "/You should do something wacky!/" Casper leaned in close in a cute way.
"/What?/" Simon asked.
"/Come to bed with me,/" Casper spoke in a flirty way. "/Please?/" Simon lowered the camera in defeat as the fun went on inside. Boy, did he screw up this time! He had to try and make it right. The charming bastard picked up his phone and began to dial her again. He waited while the other line rang.
"/Answer,/" he mumbled to the phone. "/You know you want to./"
"/Hi this is Casper, leave a message,/" the voice mail said. "/Except for Simon, you can just f**k off!/" The other line beeped. Simon drew in a deep breath to fight back the tears.
"/Please,/" he mumbled on the phone. Then, he hung up. The jerk began to cry. Boy, he really screwed up this time!
Night fell. Ando and his family were holding the birthday party downtown in the community center. Shuichi stood outside watching. He looked on at the big "Happy Birthday Ando" on the front door. It hurt him so badly inside of his heart. He wanted to be with Ando on his sixteenth birthday party. However, that damn elephant stood between them. Until they could deal with it, Shuichi could only watch on the outside.
A '10 Toyota van pulled up to the Community Center. Ando and his family all climbed out of the vehicle. His mother hurried all of his brothers into the building.
"Go!" she yelled. "Go step up all of the table and everything! Some of family will be late, I know!" Shuichi watched on at them all. Ando trailed behind looking around. Inside, the party had just started. Ando looked at the dancing crowd. Everything just looked so boring. Some of the people were getting food and socializing. Even his older sister, Katsuko, was acting well-behaved tonight. This party was turning out to be a dud already. Over in the corner, his brothers were laughing at a card that they had in their hands. Their mother came over to them as the record scratched.
"What are you all laughing about?" she asked. The woman took the card and read it. Ando looked up at the DJ booth. The DJ and Kazuma were messing with the equipment. His uncle smacked the DJ in the head. The birthday boy looked up bored. "Ando, you naughty boy," his mother read. "I want to spank your…" She looked up offended.
"Who wrote this?" the woman snapped. "Who wrote that?" Ando turned around to mom and grandfather.
"Mom, why does Uncle Kazuma have to do the DJ booth again?" he complained. The parent and grandparent stared at him.
"Why on earth not?" his mother asked.
"It's… just… mom please!" the birthday boy pleaded. The woman turned to her father-in-law.
"Are you hearing this?" she asked. "He doesn't want big brother's own gift of music!"
"Do what your mother says, you ungrateful wretch!" the older man said.
"But grandpa…" Ando started.
"Your uncle knows what's respectable!" his grandfather argued.
"Grandpa!" Ando shot back.
"You're foreigner friends have no restraint," the old man added. "They don't wear enough clothes, drink shout, fornicate, they puke in the back of stalls!" Ando looked at his brothers. The youngest of the older three nodded at him.
"We have proper tune for music," the grandfather added on. "So the foreigners don't burn the place down and have me arrested! That's why your mother is right in all things! Now say no more about it." Ando's mother nodded at him. Ando tried to argue again.
"No more," the grandfather said. The mother looked at her son smiling.
"Thank you, father!" she said. "Thank you very much!" She turned to her other sons.
"Come on, you three!" she said. The men all began stuttering out in protest.
"Is the meal going to do itself?" the woman questioned. They all walked to the back kitchen. The grandfather turned back to the DJ booth. Kazuma danced around on stage like an idiot. The old shook his head to himself.
"Kazuma is an asshole," he mumbled. Ando looked at him confused.
"W-What did you just…" he began to ask.
"A complete asshole," the old man added on. "At least he can't grope the women up there!" The microphone screeched over the air. The grandfather turned and looked up.
"Casper! Fujisaki!" he cheered as two of Ando's friends entered the room.
"/Hello Inoue- san,/" Casper greeted as they all bowed. Inoue-san looked at the hippie and the keyboardist's clothes.
"Ah and nicely dressed too," he said. "You see, respectful. You know, I keep asking Ando when Shuichi coming." Casper and Fujisaki looked at each other nervously.
"He says that they fought, I said why would anyone fight a boy like Shuichi?" the grandfather went on. Ando shook his head nervously mouthing "no" at them. Casper and Fujisaki looked at Ando.
"Well…" Fujisaki began.
"I never see Shuichi, you know," the grandfather spoke again. "He was such a wonderful singer. What a voice, huh? Superb! Soul-lifting!"
"Hm, yeah, we know," Fujisaki answered.
"Anyway," Inoue-san said. "Have some fun." They he headed anyway to the other party guests. Ando turned back to his friends. They looked at him blankly for a moment. Then, Casper and Fujisaki smiled and hurried off to enjoy themselves. Kazuma scratched the records again. Ando looked at his uncle dancing around like an idiot in the booth bored. This would be a long night!
The car from the clinic pulled up onto the city street. The driver stopped the car. Arisu and her roommate looked out the window. They were right in front of Sid's house. Neither one knew what to say at first. Arisu turned to the other girl.
"I won't be long," she said.
"Okay," the other girl said softly. "Cool, but hurry back in case you want to get high again." She unlocked the door and Arisu climbed out. She walked up to her crush's door. She rang the doorbell. The lights turned on inside and the door opened.
"/Oh hi Arisu,/" Matilda said. "Come in!" The Goth-looking Japanese girl walked inside. She closed the door behind her.
"/Sid's not here,/" Matilda told her.
"I know," Arisu replied. She made it into his room and sat down on the bed. The poor soul seemed to still have feelings for the dullard. She took the note out and looked for a place to put it. Arisu laid her head down onto Sid's pillow. How she just wished to be so close to him. Just once she wanted him to see her and not Casper. It was too late now. It was just too late.
"Bye," she whispered to the pillow. She slowly got up off the bed. Arisu left the note on his pillow and left the room. Too bad she didn't see the note he had written for her.
Speaking of Sid, he still stood in that padded room of his. He still couldn't leave. It all just sucked for him at the moment. Emma used her school id to break into Ken-san's apartment. She sat down onto the couch that she sometimes shared with her teacher/boyfriend. An alien life force was stealing her man and winning. The Aussie just didn't know what to do.
Emma looked around the living room and turned on the light. She found a photo album on the side table. She flipped it open and looked inside. Pictures of Ken and Yuko blasted her in the face.
"#Oh shite!#" she mumbled to herself as she closed the photo album quickly and sat down on the couch in disgust. All proof that Yuko had leverage over her rival. But then, Emma thought about it for a moment. No use running from the truth any longer. So, she picked up the photo album and opened it back up. Each photo had Ken and Yuko acting all lovey-dovey together. They were all worse than the last. Emma turned the pages in growing sorrow.
"#F*k!#" she mumbled to herself disillusioned. "#Fk! Fk! Fk! F*k!#" She turned the pages so fast that she nearly ripped one out. The Aussie threw the album down to floor. She picked up the second album and began looking. More of the same thing, only worse. Emma threw that one to the floor as well. She sat on in sorrow until something caught her eye. A DVD disc that "Yuko" on it. Curious, Emma picked up the disc and put it into the DVD player. She turned on the TV and hit play. On the screen showed a younger Yuko dressed in all wild rainbow colors on a Basketball court.
"Good evening, everyone!" she greeted the camera. "Let's take a look at what's going on at the court of sunny Orlando, Florida! The girls on the team look super hot and ready to go!" Emma looked on slightly confused.
"However," Yuko went on. "The other team looks just as fierce! It could good either way, we'll have to see!" Emma fast forwarded through some of the parts as she watched the disc. After a few minutes, Emma realized something.
"#You're gay!#" she exclaimed to Yuko on the screen. The Aussie chuckled a bit. She shut off the TV and found Ken-san's ring box. She took the ring out and looked at it. The girl sighed and put it back into the box. She still had nothing. Suddenly, the door opened wide. Emma looked up and saw Ken-san standing in the doorway staring at her. He looked at her surprised. Emma looked down at her feet.
"#I broke in,#" she confessed. Ken-san shook his head stressed.
"That's not fair, Emma," he said.
"#No, you lied to me!#" she protested.
"I never lied!" Ken told her. "I just…" Emma slowly looked up at him. The teacher stared on at her. He sighed again.
"Yuko went away on a field trip to Chicago," he explained as he walked inside. "For six months. Scenery change." Emma stared on confused.
"#What, she doesn't like Tokyo?#" she asked.
"No!" Ken replied."Scenery change!" Emma still looked lost. "The f***g trends are changing!" the teacher broke down.
"#Oh!#" the Aussie replied.
"Christ!" Ken muttered. "Did you ever pay any attention in school, Emma? We're trying to f***g educate you!" Emma stared on at him. She felt crushed even more.
"#Gee thanks, Ken!#" she said sarcastically. "#I appreciate it!#" Ken looked on at her.
"We had some issues," he went on. "Well, Yuko did." Emma didn't say anything. Ken-san straightened up some.
"And now," he said. "I've…"
"#Screwed around?#" Emma asked.
"You don't know what I did!" Ken snapped. "You really don't know that much about me, Emma!" The Aussie looked down at the floor. Silence flooded between them both.
"I need some time," Ken-san spoke again. Emma looked at him offended.
"#Can't you see it?#" she asked. She showed him the TV with the paused image of Yuko at work. Ken-san looked at her blankly.
"What?" he asked. Emma smiled and sighed out as she shook her head. She began to walk away in defeat. Right then, Yuko walked into the apartment. She didn't look happy to see her rival at all.
"W-We've got some stuff!" Ken-san told her. "We've got some stuff!"
"#See ya, Ken!#" Emma told him. She shook her head and walked again. Yuko smirked at her.


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