Mother Jones opened a serious can on Fiji. Just another example of “green washing,” something that I’ve been doing some serious research on. I will have a report on my findings sometime soon.

I killed The Great Cow Harbor 10k on Saturday. I PR’ed by like 6 minutes. I’m not ashamed to say I was a bit sore yesterday and today. The hills of Northport will do that to anyone. But I know from past experience the best way to shake off some stiff quads is to go for a slow run. So I went on a easy 7 miler earlier, and about 2 miles from home, the heavens opened up. I got friggin soaked. I was none too pleased. I thought for sure that my iPod Shuffle would be ruined, but it was not. So I suppose that’s good. Party Hard.

At least 30 of my friends on Facebook have statuses bitching about how Summer is officially over. “I can’t believe summer is over! back to the real world” or “where did the summer go?” and even a “wake me up when September ends” was thrown in there. Jesus tap dancing christ people. Summer isn’t over officially over until September 21. Just because Labor Day is coming up, doesn’t mean the temperature is suddenly going to drop to minus 39 degrees and everyone is going into hibernation. When I saw Jimmy Buffett last week at the beach, he said “Summer on Long Island is gonna last until November 19th this year!” Now, that may be a little bit of a stretch, but it’s not crazy to think that we can enjoy ourselves until then.

While on the subject, in late July I wrote a post, but never published it (because I didn’t like the way it sounded for some reason), about major supermarkets pushing Autumn on us way too soon.

Right around July 7th, I noticed something disturbing at my supermarket accounts. In the stockrooms, pallets upon pallets of Halloween candy was coming in. Candy corn, bite size Snickers, mini Kit Kats and the such, in abundance. Not too long after that, they were out on the shelves in the seasonal section, pushing the seasonal summer crap (water balloons, coolers, beach chairs, margarita mixes, etc) into a small corner ready to be marked down. A week after that, around the second week of July, Back to School rubbish started going out to the shelves too.

Can’t we let the kids enjoy summer? They were literally OUT of school for three weeks before the stores started shoving pens, pencils and binders back in their faces. If I was a 8 year old kid, being dragged to the supermarket by my mom while all my friends were playing on a Slip N Slide, and had to be bombarded with back to school nonsense, I’d become damn near suicidal!

Anyway. I went back to school tonight myself. I’ve returned to CUNY Queens College after a 3 year hiatus. It was alright. Parking sucks. But I’m not about to go updating my Facebook status declaring the end of summer and my life just because the calendar says September 1st. Jeez.

Some People Just Need Less Sleep

Some People Just Need Less Sleep

Next time someone says to me “Sean, how are you going to go run a half marathon at 6am? It’s 1am now and you are hammered drunk!” I will refer them to this most fascinating study.