Etoiles filantes dans le métro

Métro, ligne 4. Les passagers ne se regardent pas dans les yeux, personne ne parle ni sourit, et tout le monde a l'air impatient et énervé, comme d'hab. Puis, tout un coup:

Mec, vous ne cherchez pas un batteur par hasard?-- mec cool assis qui a l'air jazz/soul.
Si, on en cherche un!-- mec debout très mince indie rock avec une guitare et les cheveux en bataille.

Les groupes de rock cherchent toujours un batteur.

Je suis batteur de rock depuis 10 ans, je vous file mon numéro.-- mec jazz/soul.
D'accord, je le prends, cool. On s'appelle.-- mec indie rock.

J'ai souri en sortant, les gens qui échangent et créent même un lien, ca n'arrive presque jamais dans le métro. Chaque personne est normalement sur sa propre planète dans les transports, mais aujourd’hui il y avait un rare contact entre deux étoiles filantes qui faisaient tous les deux partie du même univers : celui de la musique.

5K Family Fun!

So, like many people, after saying, oh, I have to get to the gym this week and I really have to go running and doing nothing all week and thus wasting yet another week of expensive gym membership, I'm serious about getting back into running shape. The benefits are endless. Your legs look fantastic, you feel little guilt if you eat chocolate and can always rationalise it by saying, I just ran 3 miles. However, most importantly, it's great for stress management. When I was in my best running shape of my life, it was also when I had the most stressful job in my life and I really think regular runs kept me sane despite finding myself in daily life-or-death situations (I worked in animal welfare).

The big motivation here is that my Dad just started running and recently ran a mile, his first since before I was born (and, er, I'm in my 30s!) Go, Dad! So we decided to do a 5K run together in the US when I'm there in August for my annual vacation, and we're both psyched about it. For the past 2 years, my mom and I have done an annual 5K together when I visit. She walks and I run. This summer, the whole family (it's just the 3 of us) will be out 5K-ing!

I'm feeling inspired. If my Dad can get back into running shape, I can certainly get back into doing regular 5ks or more-- I've only been running once every 2 weeks or so lately, which is terrible. 4 years ago when I lived in Healthly Lifestyle Land (San Francisco instead of Paris), I did regular 4 mile runs at least 3-4 times a week, a weekly 10-miler and 3 half marathons. Since I was in good running shape at one point in my life, I am still generally lucky enough to be able to manage 30 minutes on the treadmill, even if it's been months since my last run. But I'd like to retrouver la forme, as they say.

I also feel like there are lots of things in my life that I can't control at the moment, but deciding to run for 30 minutes and then doing it is one of the few things that I do control and that depends only on me and no one else.

Bonne course, alors!