Seems I got tagged over a week ago, but as I have only caught up with blogs in the last couple of days I missed it until now, so I’ll lead off with my answers today
Jobs I’ve Held: Papergirl (and I though they outlawed child slave labour in this country), covered button maker, junk mail delivery (yeah I hate the stuff but when you are at uni you do anything to eat), checkout chick, office administrator, call centre operator (I still wake up screaming as do I suspect most of my customers), office administrator (again), Business Manager (current job)
Movies I Can Watch Over & Over: Bladerunner, 28 Days Later, Gattaca, Bridget Jones Diary 
, Any James Bond with Sean Connery, 24 Hour Party People, Royal Tennenbaums, Betty Blue, A Clockwork Orange, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Trainspotting and I will probably think of 10 more later, I love movies.
My Guilty Pleasures: Chick Lit, fairy floss for the brain and to that end, Chick Flicks, for when you just don’t want to think, almond croissants run a pretty close second, really good ones from a proper bakery.
Places I have lived (in order): Preston, Montrose, Balaclava, Richmond, Hawthorn, Richmond, Northcote, Hawthorn, Kew, Blackburn South (phew)
Shows I enjoy: The Bill, X-Files, Torchwood, Doctor Who, League of Gentlemen, Absolute Power, Sex and he City, Spooks, Silent Witness, Midsommer Murders, Will and Grace, The Cook and The Chef, Blackadder (Christ, when do I find the time to run?)
Places I Have Been on Holiday: Philip Island (Ughh, would rather have teeth extracted with no anesthetic than go back there), Bali (who hasn’t), Cairns, Port Douglas, Caloundra, Noosa Heads, Tasmania, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, London - memories of the the last 4 are extremely hazy, according to the photos it looks like I had a good time 
Favorite Foods: Mushroom Risotto, Vegetable Tagine, BBQ Salmon or Barramundi and any dessert my brother makes
Websites I Visit Daily: Ausrun Forum, Coolrunning Forum, blogs, hotmail, The Age, Google
Body Parts I Have Injured: Dislocated both thumbs (baseball), chipped front tooth (hijinks), crooked front tooth (baseball again), split open my head, plantar fascia, shins (2 stress fractures, I may have mentioned this here once or twice)
Awards I’ve Won:The usual gold stars and scratch and sniff stickers in primary school, Victorian Baseball League Div 4 Premiership, some high school cross country thing that I can’t remember because at the time I considered myself too cool to care about such things, various work stuff that means nothing to no one, HVT Rising Star - means the most to me then I blew my first season with injury, major major and a second place getter silver medal in a Sri Chinmoy 5Km race (treasured)
Nicknames You’ve Been Called:Carrot, Hoppalong Carrot when I was on crutches, Em, Emsie, Emar, MMR (long story), Aunty Em.
Well, you all needed to know all that about me didn’t you? Being I was a bit slow on the uptake I won’t tag anyone because I think this one has done the rounds now.
So, what went on today?
I had the day off and it could not have been a more perfect day for it. Spent most of the day catching up on all the house work and clothes washing that was neglected while I was away (YAWN) and getting all excited about being able to go for a 45 minute run in the afternoon.
Oh for pity sake, leave me alone, some marketer just knocked on my door! Is nowhere sacred? I didn’t answer the door and full credit for persistence he kept knocking (he could see me though the window). Is it really rude to choose not to answer your door if you don’t want to?
Still needing to avoid the paved surfaces I drove myself down to the Dandy Creek trail at about 2:30pm, I’d have to double back to clock up 45 minutes but the trail was long enough to be able to avoid doubling back too much. The afternoon was glorious, about 16 degrees and perfectly clear and sunny, ideal for a run. I gave the Nike+ unit a spin but it needs to be calibrated as it told me I ran over 10Km in 45 minutes 
, I’ll set it up properly using the Tan markers on Wednesday before run leading.
The real result over 45 minutes was 8.73Km, average of 5:09Km, so maybe a tad faster than I should have. So let’s call this the tempo run for the week, the run leader run on Wednesday will be much slower. Felt great though, the slowest KM I ran was 5:16 and although it was a faster pace it still felt pretty relaxed.
I FEEL GREAT 
Remember what it is like when you meet someone new, you talk for hours, you have a great date and then for days afterwards you remember bits and pieces and feel all warm and fuzzy. Well I am such a loser that this is pretty much how I feel about my run on Saturday, it felt so bloody good to be involved again and I don’t care that I came 120 out of about 140 and it was slow as. Em the runner is back, bouncing all over the place, enthusiastic and motivated, call me a running nerd I don’t care, I am stoked because I forgot what this feeling was like.
I did some research on the net today about this whole choking at the end of a race vibe, not much luck so far. There was a Q and A on the Running Times site but the answer was not much use to me, already tried all the stuff suggested, it didn’t work. In hindsight it is a pretty recent occurrence, probably only since I did my first Half Marathon last year. I wasn’t even thinking about it on Saturday, but when the finish line was in sight it just hit me like a bolt from the blue, damn frustrating.
This stupid Kevin Rudd visits a strip club issue refuses to die, now quicker than they can admit to smoking dope (but of course not inhaling) pollies are a claiming to have visited the odd strip joint “just once of course, in the 70s, for a mates bucks night, I drank lemonade all night and looked at the floor”, I am now standing by for Channel 9s “special” look at Melbourne’s Strip Clubs, ughhhhh, who cares, as long as he wasn’t cramming tax payers $$s into bedazzled G-Strings I am officially over it. Get back to me when he his doing favours in back alley’s to support a crack habit and I may just be able to muster some outrage. I really hate election years, “Lowest Common Denominator” seems to be the order of the day.
I updated my running play list page today, took some stuff off and added some newbies. Is it just me or is Australian music really good at the moment? I added these today, Midnight Juggernauts, British India, Gotye, Muscles, Architecture in Helsinki, 67 Special (think they are Aussie, can’t be stuffed checking).
