I’m currently typing this from the crude home office I just set up in the living room at my parents’ house in Deerfield. It has a window and everything! Hello future lost hours of productivity staring at the front lawn instead of the the pictures of Italy on the wall in my cube back in …
Author Archives: Luke
A race in which I thaw out
I’m half awake, standing on the Metro platform dressed in a black garbage bag. It’s roughly 32 degrees outside and I’m trying to store all the radiant heat I can. A dozen of us pack into the train the moment the doors open, eliminating all personal space but providing additional heat. We all ride one …
At least I never walked
I figured I should probably give a recap of the Chicago Marathon while it’s still roughly fresh in my memory and before I ran my next one (which will be on Sunday). I woke up plenty early the morning of the marathon, with enough time for my usual pre-race oatmeal/honey/peanut butter breakfast, and since I …
It’s been an anxious month. I finished chemo 5 weeks ago, and in the meantime, I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting to start radiation therapy. The initial plan of getting treated here in Holland was scrapped nearly 4 weeks ago already, and I’ve spent the rest of the time waiting to get an appointment at …
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
I’ve had the idea for this post bouncing around in my head for a couple months now, and was waiting until I got a new job to type it out. Which I mean to say that I’m in the running for a new job that I really hope I get, because I realized that even …
I didn’t get a tattoo today
I thought I was going to. I was supposed to. I was minutes away from getting one. I wish I got a tattoo today. Let me back up. Last Monday was my last chemotherapy treatment. I didn’t really celebrate much apart from a few classier-than-normal-dinners, because I was still dealing with the side effects, and, …
SavageMan 70.0 Triathlon 2011 Race Report
I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue. –Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running I’ve had a lot …
Continue reading “SavageMan 70.0 Triathlon 2011 Race Report”
Finished
Had my (hopefully) last chemo treatment EVER yesterday. It was rather uneventful itself, with no fanfare or celebration, because there’s still a week of side effects to suffer through one last time. And even then, I still have a month of radiation treatments coming up – I meet my radiation oncologist for the first time …
Stopping to smell the flowers
There is this untamed field right off the strip mall next to my oncologist’s office. No doubt it’ll be paved over at some point in the near future, but low economic activity and cheap rent have spared it thus far. It’s part prairie, though not quite like we had in Illinois, part swamp (I guess …
It goes all the way to 11
Not sure if it’s my level of caffeine intake or the needle sticking out of my chest, but I squirm in my chair every other week when getting chemo. This latest round has been pretty “normal” as far as things go. It took me 15 minutes to get out of bed this morning. Not because …