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finished the girl who stopped swimming by joshilyn jackson. it did turn out to be an okay book. not a great book, but okay. the biggest problem with it is that it is written in third person, but would have been stronger in first person. the point of view is exclusively that of the character laurel, so there is no reason it should not be from her directly. it would have been more powerful coming first hand from inside her head. not sure why it wasn't written that way, except maybe the author could not swing it. or, more likely, the author & the editor just simply didn't know what it was that was missing, or didn't think anything was missing.

barack obama's campaign gave $832,000 to acorn for the get-out-the-vote project. acorn is a housing program - what the hula are they doing getting out the vote, anyway? yes, acorn is the housing program that is behind so many of the subprime mortgages that are defaulting now.

this week i ran 4 miles on monday and 4 miles on tuesday and 4 miles on wednesday and 4 miles on thursday, and tomorrow i am taking a break!