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Em ơi! #324: Marathon Misery

I know I've been posting little snippits concerning my marathon training.  Last week I didn't do one for a very simple reason – I ran Monday, and then not again for the whole week.  Apparently, I've injured my foot, though the PA I saw didn't actually give me a diagnosis other than it was "some muscle thing."  (Thanks.)

Yesterday I did 7.3 mi, and the upshot is I need to keep taking time off until my foot is completely better.  I'm really upset about this, but there's nothing to be done but wait.  I keep telling myself that I may yet make it to the marathon (though I probably won't be BQing (i.e., Qualifying for the Boston marathon) – I haven't run farther than 15 miles in one go in several weeks), and I can always run 26 miles any day I want to when my foot allows it.  But somehow that doesn't make me feel much better.  In the meantime I've been biking, both on my regular bike and the spinning bike at the gym, which helps for calorie burn (a little), but just doesn't make me happy the way running does.

So it's rough.  I have to continue taking this one day at a time, which for someone who plans things like I do is painful.  My foot aches when the weather changes, makes strange clicking noises when I go down stairs, and sometimes feels better…only to start hurting again when I've gotten my hopes up.  Intellectually I know it's just one marathon and there will be others…but I haven't really come to terms with it yet.

This comic is filed under RC1220.M35 L86 2010, for Internal medicine — Special situations and conditions — Sports medicine — Medical and physiological aspects of special activities.  By activity, A-Z — Marathon running.

Summer 2010 Bibliography

It's the last day of August, so here is a list of the articles and books I've read over the past three months.  Mostly, anyway – it doesn't count the novel I wrote that I read twice (editing) or the two short stories of mine I also read for editing purposes.  I've organized them by place, since I was specifically researching certain countries.  Beyond that, there are a few themes you might note from the titles: sexuality, especially women's sexuality; modernity and the supernatural; and place and modernity.  Looks like a lot of stuff about sexuality, though.  Huh.

I feel a little bad about not reading more fiction.  To be fair, the one novel I got through was 900 pages long (and I'd been reading it since winter – this only represents the last 500 pages or so).  Also my Vietnamese class took over my life.

It was a lot of fun putting this together.  It gave me a sense of progress and also helped me to keep my thoughts organized.  Maybe I'll do another one for the autumn.

I haven't included the DOIs for most of the papers, assuming that you can find the journals without too much trouble.  If you are having difficulties finding the things cited, drop a comment (or email) and I'll help you out.  I also haven't included very many comments (and certainly not scholarly comments) because my notes tend to be rambling and, to a certain extent, incoherent.  But if you want to discuss a certain paper, you can leave a comment.

Non-place specific

Oakes, Timothy.  "Place and the Paradox of Modernity."  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87.3 (Sept. 1997): 509-531.  Retrieved August 2010 from the web.  <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2564066>.

What is it Gertrude Stein wrote, "…it was as if a bell rang within me"?  I really enjoyed this paper.

Tuan, Yi-Fu.  "Language and the Making of Place: A Narrative-Descriptive Approach."  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 81.4 (1991).  684-696.

Cambodia

Sotheary, Mey Son.  "My Sister."  Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia. Trans. Tomoko Okada, Vuth Reth, and Teri Shaffer Yamada.  Ed. Teri Shaffer Yamada.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.  45-56.

Better in Khmai, or so I am told by those who read the language.  Takes an unusually tolerant stance for the region.

China

Sinn, Elizabeth.  "Women at Work: Chinese Brothel Keepers in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong."  Journal of Women's History 19.3 (2007): 87-111. DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2007.0062.

This was a really fun paper.  I totally found it by accident, too — I was searching for papers on family business for my job.

Thailand

Mills, Mary Beth.  "Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand."  Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, eds.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.  244-273.

This was a great story.  My future cousin-in-law (is that a recognized kinship term?) thought this would make a great one-act play.  If I ever figure out how to write plays, I'm going to write it.

Muecke, Marjorie.  Female sexuality in Thai discourses about Maechii ("lay nuns").  Culture, Health and Sexuality.  6.3 (May-June 2004): 221-238.

Thaweesit, Suchada.  "The Fluidity of Thai Women's Gendered and Sexual Subjectiveness."  Culture, Health & Sexuality.  6.3 (May-June 2004): 205-219.

Watarachanakool, Pornvipa.  "Science, Technology and the Supernatural in Contemporary Thai Novels."  Manusya: Journal of Humanities.  9.1 (March 2006): 38-51.

Vietnam

Duong, Thu Huong.  "The Story of an Actress."  Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia. Trans. Bac Hoai Tran and Courtney Norris.  Ed. Teri Shaffer Yamada.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.  298-320.

Khai, Hung.  "Anh Phải Sống."  Anh Phải Sống. Hà Nội: Đời nay, 1934.  n.p.

Not the greatest story, but not too hard for beginning Vietnamese readers.  (By "beginning," I really mean "advanced students who are beginning to read stories and novels in Vietnamese, I guess.)

Khai, Hung.  "You Must Live."  Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia. Trans.Bac Hoai Tran and Courtney Norris.  Ed. Teri Shaffer Yamada.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.  278-283.

Khai, Hung.  "You Must Live."  Trans. Truc Huy.  Saigon Online.  Retrieved 25 August 2010. <http://www.saigonline.com/truc_huy/khaihung.htm>

Not the greatest translation.  But then again, I wasn't a huge fan of the story.

Nguyen, The Anh.  "The Vietnamization of the Cham Deity Po Nagar."  Essays into Vietnamese Pasts. Eds. K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore.  Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995.  42-50.

Quach, Trang.  "Femininity and sexual agency among young unmarried women in Hanoi."  Culture, Health, and Sexuality.  10(Suppliment, June 2008): S151-S161.

Thu-Huong, Nguyen-Vo.  "History Interrupted: Life after Material Death in South Vietnamese and Diasporic Works of Fiction."  Journal of Vietnamese Studies.  3.1 (2008): 1-35.

US/England

Anderson, Jourdan.  "Letter from Jourdan Anderson to His Former Master."  Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.  Leon F. Litwack, ed.  New York: Knopf, 1979.  Retrieved from the web 31 August 2010.  <http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/anderson_letter.pdf>

Stephenson, Neil.  Quicksilver.  New York: William Morrow, 2003.

For those who have made it this far, here's a fun song for the end of summer.  The video is quite avant garde, or less politely, it looks like a bunch of hipsters threw up on the set.  But the song is great: "Dog Days are Gone" by Florence and the Machine.