Yashinator

           Yes, I ran only 21 minutes today. The problem was my eyes. I couldn’t read my watch because it was too dark. I wasn’t really dark, but I still couldn’t read the digits.
When I’d put the light on the watch, it gave me no help. I’m up at 5 am this morning watching the first debate. I’ve had to put the volume down because I couldn’t concentrate on my writing. The debate is a real yawner imho.
       
  I ran by the building where my classes meet in Podbelskovo, and then I ran across the railroad tracks. At one point, my legs were hurting. I nearly slowed to a walk, but I ran through the pain—I don’t remember the pain stopping, but it must have because later on, I didn’t feel any. I listened to a 60 minutes interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger. while running. Talk about a guy who has the world at his beck and call. Man, he has it all—money, Hollywood, politics, women. He gets away with anything. He has the life of the characters he plays.

 When I was studying Russian at the Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1992, we took a trip to Sochi on the Black Sea--the place where they are going to host the Olympics. While there, I was the only one in our group who swam in the COLD water. One my classmates jokingly said, "Hey, let's play a game called throw rocks at Yasha." I used the name, Yasha, while here. Someone called me the Yashinator--a disruption of the title Terminator, Schwarzenegger's most famous role.