WC- I lived in West Philly for ten years....walked through the Penn campus daily, but never attended. Interesting dichotomy in that part of Philly....I miss little India. 6 x 1200m @ 6:45 pace, rest laps, WU/WD....9.23 miles, 1:15:23, 144/173

Carolyn and Walt, how about soft pretzels? I used to visit my Aunt in Upper Darby lots when I was a kid and young adult. Tramps, I got my teaching certification via an institute and student teaching out of Brandeis. Gosh, what a glorious day out there. Got a late start as I spent the morning in CPR/AED Training (figured it's the least I can do!). Judges away at a conference this afternoon and tomorrow, so I did get out. 6.65 at an 8:27 pace: 8:43/8:36/8:44 8:31/8:07/8:01 and slow down in last .65 to an 8:22 pace. Ave HR 156. So I emailed one of of my favorites authors at his website. His novels often refer to clams. He sent me back a reference to a real clamshack in Maine AND a beautiful picture of clams with bellies. grins, A

Everyone thought I got to go to U. of Texas free since my dad was an engineering prof there, but I guess that doesn't apply to public schools!

Well that's strange, I thought that was the last big benefit hold out for public schools. Univ. of Alaska gives unlimited credit hour tuition waivers to dependents of employees. Unfortunately, my kids are sort of anxious to leave Alaska and go somewhere warmer... I'm trying to talk them into UA for at least their first year or two, then they can transfer elsewhere. I got in a nice treadmill run tonight. Could've run outside, but the first and last miles would've been very very icy. Sort of "ice-injury averse" right now... 8 miles in 1:07.... 8:49, 8:34, 5 @ 8:20 and last mile at 8:00 even. Nice to feel like I could've gone longer/faster, but that's the nice thing about the treadmill... it keeps me honest on pace/distance. Twocat and Aamos, how are we going to meet up in NYC?