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In celebration of National Coming Out Day, I am giving away Rainbow Wee buttons. They are 1" in diameter and illustrated by yours truly.

I did Bay to Breakers again this year, and unlike last year, I actually finished (in 2:46... that's an average of 22 minutes and 16 seconds per mile.) I placed an abysmal 2569 out of 2851 people in my age group. Even so, I still feel like a champ because I didn't get sunburned at all!

I walked more than half of the way, taking in the scenery and then sped up so I could cross the finish line for real before they diverted the course.

Tim and John came up with our group costume idea: Swine Flu Zombies. I was a butcher/chef who contracted the flu from slaughtering pigs for fresh bacon. The virus I caught mutated and I turned into a zombie. I made the hat the day before the race after flip-flopping on my zombie infection story. I briefly thought about being a zombie hula girl who got pig flu from a roast pig at a luau. I thought people wouldn't really get it unless I told them the story, and zombies don't really talk much, so I went with a simpler yet more over the top costume concept.

Mike was a zombie DJ.
John was a zombie yuppie.
Chrystie was a zombie sorority girl.
Tim was a zombie professional fighter.
Dana was cursed by a Rabbi for being unkosher.

Now that I've done Bay to Breakers for real, I want to do the salmon run next year.

Oh yeah, and now that I have a zombie costume, I can also join the next zombie walk.

Chinese people have started introducing me to their kids as "Auntie Winona".

I have never thought of myself as being an "auntie". The word elicits images of grey permed hair, cardigans, eye glass chains on bifocals and false teeth. *shudders at the thought*

Since when did I transition from being a "jeh-jeh" (older sister) to "auntie"?

This isn't going to help my team win the food donation contest, but I just thought of something that might be good to donate to a food bank.

If the people who use food banks have difficulty affording food, chances are they might also have difficulty affording electricity to cook food. Self-heating meals may be the answer to this problem, but unfortunately they are quite expensive and often not very nutritious.

I just found a great article on explaining the Chinese concept of face.