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You probably already know how much I love Seattle. In recent news, yet another reason to live here: we’ve been named “America’s Most Literate City”. We ranked high in a number of categories:

No. 1 in number of bookstores per 10,000 population.

No. 1 in education level.

No. 3 in Internet resources and usage.

No. 7 in library support, holdings and utilization.

In a completely different vein, my latest Cooking Light magazine ranks the top 20 cities for eating smart, being fit and living well. Not surprisingly, Seattle takes 1st place on this list as well. It may be rainy, but we have an awful lot to be proud of around here!

I just came across this article about Ultra Marathon Runner, Dean Karnazes. He recently accomplished yet another crazy goal- to run 50 marathons in 50 states on 50 consecutive days. Wired magazine calls him “The Perfect Human”. Personally, I think he’s totally insane. Yes, the human body is capable of amazing things, but what’s the point of pushing yourself so hard? I don’t get his motivation, but I do find him strangely inspirational. And I did enjoy his book, minus the shameless self-promotion. Anyway, I’ll let you be the judge, but he does have some interesting points. The 1st in his 12 secrets of success: “Be Audacious”. I like that.

I am now 37 weeks pregnant. In other words, I’ve reached full term. If I have the baby now, it won’t be considered premature. I think we’re in the zero to 5 week zone now (if I haven’t delivered by 42 weeks, I’ll likely be induced), thus it’s the “any day now” time frame. Yikes! For some reason, I’m feeling completely freaked out about that today. It seems a whole lot more real than it has and also imminent. I’ve more or less kicked the head cold (thank God!) and am feeling totally fine otherwise. Today was my first full day at work in over a week and I thought to myself that it would be kind of nice to get back into my routine. Then I stopped and realized- there will be very little time to get back in to any routine. Both this week and next week will be 4 day work-weeks and then I’m done! I’m feeling a bit checked out at work already. I promise to get some pictures of the belly up in the next couple of days. We’ve been so busy that it’s fallen by the wayside. Though truthfully, I don’t think I’ve gotten much bigger in recent weeks. Stay tuned for further developments on Noodlehead’s arrival.