My Cool Friend

My friend Miss Midwesterly is so cool.

Not only is she as bouncy and smart and amusing as an Australian Shepherd dog, she has done more cool things this year than most of us do in five.

To wit:

She moved her ass back to New York, finally giving in to the inevitable truth that while she made a fine Chicagoan, at the center of it, she's a New Yorker! Welcome home, Eesh!

She did a frickin' Ironman last month. An IRONMAN, people. That means she swam a couple of miles, crawled out of the water, then hopped on her bike and rode a century-plus -- that's A HUNDRED and TWELVE MILES. And THEN, after that, in case you weren't tired just thinking about that, she ran a marathon. And she did the whole thing in something like 14 hours. When was the last time YOU pushed yourself to the outside boundaries of human endurance? Sheesh, when was the last time you walked up three flights of stairs?

And today, she found out that she's being deployed to Taiwan by Shelterbox as part of their disaster relief team aiding mudslide victims. She leaves on Saturday and will probably be gone for a couple of weeks.

Fabulous. Fabulous. Fab. U. Lous.

My friends are just cool.