I read two really good articles in Runner’s World magazine recently. The first was an autobiographical account by Kathrine Switzer, who was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, and the second was about John J. Kelley, who won the Boston Marathon in 1957 and who will be the Boston Marathon's Grand Marshal this year. Both articles got me even more excited about my upcoming trip. Also, I ordered the book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich online yesterday, but while I’m waiting for it to arrive, I’ll read A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos, which I picked up from the bargain rack at Barnes & Noble.

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