It was Jenna’s 21st birthday tonight.  Courtney and I got up early (5:15? yikes!).  We made pancakes and hashbrowns and hot chocolate.  Jenna came and we ate it from breakfast.  It tasted so good. 

Then we had some early church, and then we went downtown Cambridge, and then we came back and I had a nap.  And then we had Greek.

Jenna’s mom called to say happy birthday while we were in Preceptor’s office, so she got up to answer the call real quick.  Preceptor asked how old she was turning and I answered “21.”  He asked if that was a big deal in America.  I said yes, because that’s when you’re legal to drink.  So he said, “oh, well, then she should have a beer, shouldn’t she?”  And he walked over to his little secret stash and plopped one of his little, squat french beers right next to her Greek grammar so she had a surprise when she came back.  I thought it was so funny.  That’s my favorite memory from today.

As I already mentioned, I ran nearly 8 miles today.   I’ve been feeling really good lately, but the only problem is how upset my stomach gets for the second half.  That’s really annoying.  I need to figure out how to make it stop, because then I’m all out of joint for the rest of the night.  Annoooyyying.

One more good story:  I was running on a footpath that had two rather sizable fields on either side.  I’m running along and I’m seeing several of these brown bumps all over the field and I ask myself “what are those?  Those weren’t there yesterday.”  And then I see more and more, and they’re scattered all over the fields, probably around 50 in each.  And then all of a sudden I realize that they were rabbits and I was surrounded by TONS OF RABBITS.  That made me really happy.  I don’t know what those rabbits were doing.  Eating, maybe.  Relaxing.  Digging holes.  One of those three things.

Then we had a nice house dinner with last night’s leftovers.  I felt a little queasy, but that didn’t stop me from eating a lot.  And then we brought out the birthday cake Courtney and I made for Jenna yesterday.   It was good.  I made the frosting from clotted cream and powdered sugar.  Lord, have mercy on us.

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