"Who are you supposed to be, Drew Barrymore's sister?"

Yesterday afternoon I came to the conclusion that I must have some sort of weirdly generic face. Over the past few years, I have been told at least 10 times that "I look like someone familiar." Sometimes my looks garner celebrity status, sometimes its the more vague feeling of "I swear I know you from somewhere." I figure I should start keeping a list of my celebrity look-a-likes because the great thing is no one ever tells me I look like the same person twice. So far I've gotten: Keri Russell, Debra Messing, Alexis Bledel, and a few others that I didn't even recognize the names of... obviously they were B-list.

Anyway, my favorite encounter took place yesterday... at the meat counter at Kroger. As I'm ordering my wood smoked turkey, the guy behind the counter says to me, "So who are you supposed to be, Drew Barrymore's sister?"

I miss you TJ.

At the Y-M-C-A!

As I begin my second semester of graduate school, I came to the realization that I have no hobbies... unless you count watching endless seasons TV shows on DVD. Anyway, since the Turkey Trot 5K was so successful *cough cough*, I decided to go with the lifetime sport of running. I've always been horrible at running, but I found the perfect solution to this problem: sign up for a training course with lots of other people who are horrible at running.

Yes, the YMCA actually has a 10K training course and after attending the orientation session, I think I'm in for 10 weeks of pure entertainment. Everyone else at the meeting seemed to be 40+ and mostly there to lose weight. In fact, no one besides myself seemed even the slightest bit concerned about the running aspect of the course. One lady even found it necessary to share with us her weight and was inquiring in front of the whole group what she should be eating and how many calories she could expect to burn.
Our instructor/"coach" then told her a story about how he ran 3 marathons within 2 weeks and actually ended up gaining 7 pounds. She didn't like that.

Anyway, our first group run is Saturday at 8:30AM. Can't wait to see what I'm up against...