Happy Halloween

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place." -Emily Dickinson
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BRR 2009

The Monster Bash from Off Track Events on Vimeo.

Riding to Rocheport tomorrow!
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Hitting the Streets

“I don’t think I would let my 8-year-old run New York City alone.” -Former Columbian Wesley Paul, who completed the NYC marathon when he was an 8-year-old. See the complete NYT article here.
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Pre-Halloween

"Tonight the Great Pumpkin will rise out of the pumpkin patch. He flies through the air and brings toys to all the children of the world." -Linus, in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

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Words and Words

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -Thomas Mann. Starting to believe this is true as the deadline for my thesis prospectus quickly approaches.
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Religion Flowchart

I'm right where I should be. Amazing.

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Saturday Night

"Whoooo! Going to buy some porn! Yeah!" -some random guy yelling out his car window - through a megaphone - near the Olde Un Theatre. Columbia gets a little crazy on game days - whether or not you're a football fan.
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Don't Mess With

"Change comes whether you want it or not. The question is whether it owns you or you own it." -Evan Smith, former EIC of Texas Monthly, who spoke to the Magazine Staff class yesterday.

Later in his lecture: "The thing that Texans hate more than anything else is ... not executing people. (pause) That joke is funny in all other 49 states. The thing Texans hate more than anything else is having Texas explained to them."
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Race Across the Sky

"You're lining up with everybody; it's just not an elite race of the best bike racers in the world." -Dave Wiens, six-time winner of the Leadville 100. Check out the film :)
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Peter Cottontail

"Does your rabbit like ice cream?" -A Sparky's scooper questions a girl accompanied by a black and white bunny on a leash.
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Competition

"If there's one thing that a makes a guy work, it's hearing footsteps ... and I'm hearing a lot of them, and most of them are from you all." -photojournalist Bill Eppridge addresses Mizzou students at yesterday's Missouri Honor Medalist lecture.
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Coop de Ville

"I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a very little feast; and, if I were to fall in love again (which is a great passion, and therefore, I hope, I have done with it), it would be, I think, with prettiness, rather than with majestical beauty." -Abraham Cowley, Of Greatness

Thought this was appropriate after staying in a little Chicken Coop over the weekend :)

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Family Reunion

"Your mom called; she says she'll meet you here on Sunday." -awesome church sign near Osage Beach (sorry I didn't stop for a photo).
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Road Trip

"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake." -J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

Headed back to Columbia today. In the car. Ugg.

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Southern Mo.

"Missouri has the reflexes of its own celebrated mules; this is a state with a kick." -John Gunther, Inside U.S.A.
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Fall is Here

"The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Off to Carthage, Mo. for the Maple Leaf Festival :)

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On the Way to Rocheport

Posted in the A-Frame bathroom...

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Better Late Than Never

(she was pretty funny when she took off her pants during our bike ride, but you kind of had to be there...)
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Lincoln, Neb.

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Cluck Cluck Cluck

"What's the best way to hold the chicken?" -common concern amongst our relay team at the Market to Market relay from Omaha to Lincoln (the chicken was our "baton"). By the neck turned out to be the best tactic.
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On the Road Again

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." -Seneca. Headed back to CoMo today after good times in Alabama and Nebraska.
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Nebraska

Running from Omaha to Lincoln today (with seven others from the Columbia Track Club for the Market to Market Relay).
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Punctuation

"When you're reading a sentence, when you have to take a breath, that's when you slap in a comma." -advice from a speaker at last night's AJHA reception.
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Hey Porter

"I'll take this to my home. Maybe there's something I can wear." -response from the tiny Indian porter who stored my luggage while I waited for my hotel room to be ready. Unfortunately for him, I don't think he was the dress-wearing type.
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Heart of Dixie

"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind." -Prologue, Gone With The Wind

Headed to Birmingham, Al. today for the AJHA Conference.

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Vocab Lesson

"The churches down here either have a good sense of humor or no clue." -Kristy's assessment of religion in Mississippi (accompanied by this photo).

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Rocking the Rainbow

"Like a fine pair of jeans, iPod nano colors may vary and change over time." -the fine print on the box of my new iPod. Odd.
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Pumpkin Perch

I wonder if pumpkins were larger in Thoreau's time? I would most definitely crush a pumpkin if I sat on one. Pumpkin Ale sounds pretty good, though. :)
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Credibility

"Fact checking is life." -a Vox editor's note under the "What I Learned" section of her portfolio. It's true.
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The Feminist Fight?

"I always felt that the girls in a family should get a little more than the boys even though all are equally loved. They need a little cushion to fall back on. Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but until they have the same anatomy, it's a lie. It's more of a man's world today than ever. Men can eat their cake in unlimited bakeries." -A thought from Maureen Dowd's mother (published in the NYT). Hmm.
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October

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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