r e d.chilipepper

danke shoen

thanks everyone who emailed me for my research from this blog! although i didn't recognize the names of some of the individuals who contacted me, i really appreciated all your helpful efforts. i figure word of mouth will eventually get me all the participants i need, so feel free to pass my research description on.

i was running in the park today -- second time running on trail since my injury in november -- and it felt great. san francisco was a benevolent 65 degrees today, not a cloud in the sky, and even ocean beach was warm. i keep thinking how much i'm going to miss this city and it's making me sad. my friend said the other day that he couldn't understand why i had to 'mentally' prepare myself to leave. i guess you can get just as attached to a city as you can to an individual. san francisco has been sweet to me.

list of things to do before i leave:
1. angel island
2. sf symphony and opera
3. gather group to go to blood centers of pacific with me to register for bone marrow or to donate blood
4. watch the sun set from montara, ocean beach and stinson
5. big sur half marathon
6. drive pch
7. learn how to drive stick (i need to do this before i leave for europe!!)

just wanted to paste this poem. melikes it much. oh, i hope everyone has a sweet valentine's day:

ROAD LESS TRAVELED

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost