Thanks everyone 
I’m happy I still have my forum-family reading here and there !!
Wow it’s late right now - as I was up watching the Zurich diamond League and then uploading some stuff on my website !!! (I am going to have my very first personal art exhibition at my favorite sister’s new center of foreign languages, yipeeeee, althoughhhh I have a lot to draw !!! yikessssss… but I’ll do more of that once I get to Milan and I’ll be feeling all lonely and unsociable, and inside a tunnel-vision version of me, focusing only on phd, training and art =) so… this is the banner I made, you can see it here: http://stefaniesart.com/?p=711 (comments are welcome)
Training has been going pretty ‘progressively’ lately, and I’m trying to get my lower back to be pain free, but I already know it’s from all the longggg warm ups and hard surfaces. But once I find myself in Milan, I know I’ll have my huge grass surface to run on for my tempo sessions, and that is very relieving to think about !
(I shouldn’t write this late… )
I’ve been alternating 20min jog days + short tempo (100s) sessions with hill sessions (30m-150m) and a few stair (100steps) sessions.
I really miss the weight room, but I will going very steadily once I arrive in Milan, again.
I hate sitting on the chair and doing work. So I decided once I arrive to Milan (again), to go immediately and buy a Swiss ball to sit on it instead of the chair. I’ll be like Google’s happy employees.
So once I travel to Milan on Monday (again), I am taking the train to Karlsruhe (that is in Germany, for those of you who dont’ know) on Wednesday, to make it to my Thursday morning presentation. I am going to present my longest ‘speech’ ever - 35minutes 
I have a link, not because I’m inviting you (it’s an expensive entrance fee and it should make me more nervous, but I really am taking it very lightly), heck… if you’re in the area, sneak in and we’ll meet!! ( http://branded-spaces.de/speakers/culturesociety/ ) > notice how all my co-speakers of the day are Dr’s and I’m the no-title girl hahahaha.
I love Alyson Felix. She runs like a gazelle.
Sometimes I think that my oldest sister hates the fact that I’m alive. But I suppose that every child in a multiple-member family gets this impression sometimes?
Sometimes I wish I were invisible.
And I’m sure that sounded like I’m 12… Anyway, I’m 28 now.
It’s 1am and I’m not used to staying up this late.
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011
Today I had two training sessions; one in the afternoon (I died from the heat but that was ok), where I did 20min warm up, a LOT of A skips and B skips up the hill and then some short hills (I really wasn’t counting… I was just enjoying the session and paying very close attention to proper form to take any load whatsoever off my lower back which has been bothering me - again - for the past 2 weeks).
And night session (that was 9pm because my favorite sister gets off of work at that time, and we like to go train together) was another 20min jog, 6 sets of 100xstairs (alternating singles with doubles) and 5-6 x 80m strides in the end, with light jogging and walking in between (until we arrived home).
This post was a mess.