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This doesn't look at ALL like the unicorn from the story I told the kids Monday night, but, surprisingly, there aren't that many unicorn pictures in the Tulsa World's photo system.

 Kids, feet and other stuff
Published: 8/18/2010 2:32 PM
Last Modified: 8/18/2010 2:35 PM

OK, that was probably one of my more disconcerting post titles in my blogging history. Kinda feel like it needs to be followed with, "... it rubs the lotion on its skin" or something.

Anyhoo, so I told y'all yesterday (and look at me blogging two days in a row like I know what I'm doin') that I'd tell y'all about my Monday evening with a group of really cool kids ages 8 to 11. Well, the lovely Amy Tingleaf, sister to the darling judge Dana (no last name needed, just like Madonna), invited me to speak to a group of children in Owasso who are starting their own newsletter. Cool! Count me in.

First of all, as I warned the Tingleaves, I am NOT a good public speaker. However, they still had me over, and I did what seemed like the best job possible. But when it came time to chat about how to structure a story, my totally random example involved a unicorn charging through the sliding glass doors and into the room causing people to scream before charging back out. Yeah, I have no idea. But no one seemed emotionally scarred afterward, so there's a plus. Go journalism!

Now, on to my feet. Did I tell y'all that I do NOT have a stress fracture after all? I wrote last Tuesday in my column that I had a stress fracture, based on a meeting with a lovely orthopedist. Well, I went to my doc's office last Tuesday, and she said it was tendinitis in my left foot -- and, because I'm a melodramatic, sympathy-sapping dork, and went around limping, I also have tendinitis in my right knee. Nice.

So the doc said to not run for 10 days, which means my first opportunity to run will be this Saturday. I'm kinda panicked, though, because I'm the running ambassador for the Route 66 Marathon, right? Well, that's just three months away, and I've got to be able to run 26 stinkin' miles without dying (preferably). Please keep those fingers crossed and candles lit, por favor, that I can pull that off like a thong at a keg party.

In the mean time, I've been working out at HELP, and Mistress Ashley has been quite helpful. But I'll wait 'til tomorrow to confess my tonnage and my new strategy for weight loss, which may or may not involve a steak knife, valium and various attachments on my Dirt Devil.

Stay sweet ... XOXO

P.S.: Sometimes, I think I'll start offering a song-o-the-day or nugget-o-uselessness or whatever because ... Well, because. That said, here's Goldfrapp's "Ride a White Horse."


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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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