A Run Down Memory Lane

So, back in Etown this weekend, I took part in a 10k! It was the Nike+ Great Human Race, which I must say is a really cool concept. It was a virtual race - all you had to do was log a 10k on your nike+ system. I'm doing a 1/2 marathon training program, and doing 6.2 miles was a little preemptive, but I survived.

What was fun about it though was that I got to run around my old hometown, and since it's pretty small, I got to see all kinds of things that reminded me of the old days! I ran to Briarcliff Ln, past the first place I lived where I have real memories (which, btw, it looks like it's empty - no landscaping and looking abandoned...I digress), to my first grade bus stop, through the college where I had God knows how many swim practices and where I graduated (from HS, I realize this will confuse most ppl) and the gazebo on the lake... It was a nice nostalgic run!

On to the 1/2 marathon on the OBX - November 9th! I am so excited - Nikki is coming down to run it w/ me! Woohoo!

The drive home was fun - I ended up reading out loud from my Linguistics textbook to Scott the whole time about language acquisition and how babies learn sounds, meaning, grammar, launguage, etc. We were both really interested... and I turned to a random page in the book, and it turned out to be a "case study" in regional dialects concerning Lancaster, Lebanon and Berks counties. OMG, we laughed so hard. I mean, we always knew there were weird things about the way we talk, and I've seen random email forwards like "You know you're from Lancaster County when..." but to hear if from experts was pretty funny.

Here's what we do:

• Add "awhile", meaning now. Like "I'll go get the pizza awhile" Funny story...Scott never realized this little gem of PA dialect...he said he's said it to co-workers on numerous occasions which he now thinks they thought he meant he'd do it "in a while"...like, later. So due to his "heritage" he's now a slacker...
• Omit "to be" from certain sentences, like "The car needs washed" instead of "The car needs to be washed" like normal people would say it. We're totally guilty
  
• "All" as in "The salt is all"... meaning the salt is all GONE. I find this one sad bc I remember saying (or maybe hearing my sister or another baby saying) "Allie All!" when their bottle was gone. I feel like a fraud, my first words are junk.

It makes me happy on some level that Scott and I both do this though... maybe we can keep our accents and weird talking habits...