Flame still burns

Now it's exactly one month until Sydney marathon and I feel pretty strong. I'm still thinking about whether I should run with my own Camelback water system and carry my own gel for carbohydrates - something that I feel comfortable with - rather than stopping every five k at water stations to drink and eat bananas etc.

Now when I'm out of the uni environment I miss studying - hence I'm thinking about studying Akkadian, the language of Babylon at Birkbeck University of London. Maybe not the most pragmatic choice but it seems really interesting to learn to read and write the language of Snowcrash.