9.5 hours to go. I’m hydrated. I’m carbed up. I still feel woefully under-prepared. I’m going to bed. I hope I can do it.

Discovery: A new production of RENT will be playing in Sydney next month. Snookums, I am going to this.

Sunday’s forecast: Showers. Cold and windy.

Crap.

Fostering International Cultural Exchange Through Hairstyles.
I wore pigtails today. This is apparently quite a novelty for a few of the programmers here.

8K Photos
The official race pictures from last weekend’s 8K are now available. Check out that second one! (I snaffled a copy here if you don’t like turning your head 90 degrees.) I’m pretty sure that’s coming in to the finish line. I look pretty pained, don’t I?

Oh, neat! I just discovered that there’s a play about Richard Feynman currently running in Sydney. The Snook’s got his autobiography and we’ve both read it. Might be fun…

Man. Stuff like this is why I get anxious every time we visit the States. The Snook already suffers the indignity of frequent “random” bag searches and being fingerprinted upon arrival (as all Australians do). I can just see some jerkass immigration official deciding he visits too often and throwing him in jail.

RENT 10th Anniversary performance of “La Vie Boheme” by the original Broadway cast. Awesome. (Link courtesy of Kel.)

Mario is a menace. (Link courtesy of Tim.)

Exercise. We’re less than 72 hours from the half-marathon, and my lungs still aren’t up to 100%. Thanks to Dr. Emily, I’m trying out a ventilator that seems to be helping though. I’m certainly coughing a bit less. I went out for a short (4.5km) run Tuesday morning, and I’ve done a couple of Wii Fit workouts this week as well. (I unlocked Super Hula-Hoop, and OH MY GOODNESS that gets the heart pumping! I guarantee you that right now some chubby nerd is working out with this thing in his basement, and six months from now he’s going to be fifty pounds lighter and Nintendo will anoint him as the next Jared.) Anyway, I’ve got my number and timing chip for the race, and Project Hydration begins today. I’m going to do my best.