Sunday morning: Coffee is my friend . . .
Sep. 14th, 2008 10:30 amWell, as I expected, they are following that with coverage of the Paralympics.
You want joy? You want tears? Go there now.
There's a lot of great stuff there. I recommend this one to start with.
New York Times
Before about half of her Paralympic teammates were even born, Barbara Buchan lay in a coma, her skull shattered and part of her brain removed, unaware that doctors were telling her parents that she would probably die.
And yet on Wednesday, 26 years after a horrific bicycle crash and just days after her 52nd birthday, Buchan won the gold medal in the women’s individual pursuit in Beijing — topping off a comeback older than much of her competition.
“I think I’m still flying and floating around,” Buchan said by telephone from Beijing. “It still hasn’t hit me. I’ve wanted a gold medal since I was 15, and now I have one.”
Buchan was a top American cyclist before a devastating crash during a 1982 race left her in a coma for two months and forced her to undergo six years of painful rehabilitation. (The accident spurred the requirement that cyclists wear helmets, which Buchan was not doing at the time.)
2. EKU stories. I need EKU stories!
3. If you like beer at all, go to your local "good" package store and get a bomber of Southern Tier's "Pumking" Imperial Pumpkin Stout. This may be the best beer I have had all year. It has a very special quality to it. Chill it and serve it in a tulip glass. This is the only beer alethea_eastrid has *ever* asked me to get more of. (That was last year, and they were out). Some of you won't be able to find it, I am afraid, and I don't know if it's available beyond New Jersey or so, but let me know where you live, and I will make a recommendation).
I got mine at EBI in Saratoga Springs.
4. Speaking of the NY Times, here's the weekly spanking of Gov. Palin. Yeah, Steve I *know* you went there. When I think of Palin, I think of Anthony Bourdain's view of Rachel Ray and the fact that he would gladly have dinner with her if she was wearing a ball gag and "assless chaps." Yes, I know chaps that are not "assless" are leather pants.
5. I am on Tribe.net as LiamStLiam. (Surprise, eh?). I know some folks here are there.
6. No Print On Demand job for me. Still waiting on the NY Special Olympics job. I have one other active resume, for Albany H.S., which postponed opening for two days because of scheduling issue and which features a parade of kids getting into fights every day on the walk home from school.
7. The Rocky Mountain News editor explains why his paper twittered a 3-year-old's funeral.