bits and pieces
so, was rather busy at work today, hence the lack of posting. and tomorrow AM, we're heading off to fabulous NORTH CAROLINA for what i think is a well-deserved break from sobriety. so, although tommy and kriston apparently think that being 1) drunk and 2) at the fricking beach will encourage bloggage, i'm inclined to think otherwise (like, i'm definitely going to be on that floaty thing in the pool with a tropical drink in hand, computer losers).
anyway, last night i put up a few more italy pictures, which are available here. they're just a few random ones from florence.
additionally. so, that whole thing with the marine corps marathon? well, i've gone completely beserk and decided i do in fact want to run 26.2 miles, sign from god or no. so i'm going to wait until tuesday and see if i get picked from the random lottery. if i do not, i plan on signing up through the lombardi cancer center charity team with a coworker. i find the lombardi center to be an extremely worthy cause, as that's where my mom went for her treatment and they were amazing, and so good to her, and saved her life, basically. but. in order to run with the lombardi team (or any charity team, for that matter, who will guarantee you a spot in the marathon if you sign up with them), i have to...raise $2,000.
now, this, to me, seems impossible. i'm a 24 year old in the city, with no extraneous funds of my own, and $2,000 is not that much less than i make in an ENTIRE MONTH. and most of my own friends are about as poor as i am. i mean, i'm still going to hit you all up for money, constantly, and give you major guilt trips if you don't contribute, but i really wouldn't expect people to give anything, and if they did, i'd expect like $10, but only after i promise a lap dance, or something.
my family would of course give money, and probably some of my family's neighbors and friends, and i bet i could send my sister to her high school, and my mom to her lunch group, and my dad to his work, and my brother to his college friends, on some rabid fundraising canvassing. but still. $2,000. holy shit?
i mean. that's a ton of money, and i only have like four months to raise it. and what *really* gets me is that i'm willing to go out, beg every person i know for cash until i've got 2k, ALL TO RUN TWENTY-SIX FREAKING MILES AND THEN FALL OVER AND DIE.
what is wrong with me? i clearly need a long weekend more than i realize.
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Hey Catherine, the pictures as always are awesome. I like the whole installment thing you got going, since if you had put them all up at once there's no way I would have looked through them all. Just to let you know when i tried to go to the next page from page 18 i got an error message. Is there a page 19 yet?
Also, pertaining to MCM, you should ask your office to do a sort of matching funds thing. I think that a guy that used to work at my office did this when he was raising money for the MCM. You basically ask you boss if the company will match anything that your coworkers (or possibly outside people, if your boss is nice) give you. This way you win cause you raise half the funds, and i think that your company can get use it as a tax write off. I'm not really sure how it all worked and i bet if you did join the Lombardi group they'd give you all sorts of material on it, but it's something to think about.
that is a good idea, and i'll definitely try it out, though my company is so freaking stingy that i'm not sure it'll work. we shall see!
nope, no page 19 yet. to come.
YAY! That's all I have to say. I am no longer solo runner girl.
start up a paypal account for donations, and i'll link to it on my blog -- that should net you at least an extra 10 bucks!
i say see what happens when you go grassroots. and, if i get a full-time job, i'll pledge $100. if not, $10 may have to do.
thank you matty! that's so sweet. if i got $10 from all of my friends, i'd be happy with that
I'll lend the full weight of the Grammar Po-Po to your cause... though outside of you guys, Matty, and Sue, and probably my employers, I don't know who's reading.
you can totally do it. i ran the chicago marathon last year with a training program in which we were required to raise $1300 for the aids foundation of chicago--and i ended up raising about $2000. people are inclined to admire you for doing something they don't think they could do, and are so often more generous than you can imagine. good luck!
Hey Catherine,
I just happened to see your blog on a Google search and I was wondering if you still felt like this (from your March 24 post): "i'm telling you, i'm having a hard time not just dropping everything and moving back to italy and working illegaly as a bartender at some godawful 'english pub' in florence where the only customers are obnoxious study-abroad kids, convinced that they are living out the italian lifestyle because they are drinking guinness with other americans in a bar that happens to be next to the duomo. "
If so, I'm with you. I am convinced that I'll be dropping everything I have here and high-tailing to bel'italia for the rest of my life--on approximately October 12. Want to go? Seriously, the U.S. is so embarrassing and FAT these days it makes me want to puke and then hide in my apartment until someone with a brain takes over the country.
k. - thanks for the inspiration. $2,000 is so daunting, but i know it's an amazing cause, so...we'll see how it pans out. i'm ready to try.
and sara - wow! you are going to *love* italy. i lived in milan for a year, and believe me, i can't think of anything nicer than jetting out of the states back into italy, though it's not realistic for me at this point. but if you ever want to talk about living in italy, just let me know. good luck!
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