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pretty thrilled for azarenka to beat serena, finally exorcise that demon. i watched the first set and then the first 4-5 games of the second set and it really did look like azarenka had flipped a switch and turned into a different player. wonder if serena's really hurt or if she was just going to the trainer to save face when it was clear that azarenka was cruising late.

i love serena but it's cool to see someone get a win after so long being dominated by a rival. not sure who i'd rather win the final. osaka is so fun but what a story if azarenka wins majors seven years apart, after having a kid and not winning a single match in 2019!

seems to me lebron is carrying this team every bit as much as he carried cleveland 15 years ago. AD is a better player than any teammate he had back then but if i just feel like if it were AD's team they'd already have been knocked out, or maybe not even made the bubble. he's just missing something that lebron and very few other players have. that ability to just decide to take over, and then do it, on both O and D. who else in the NBA has that gear right now? maybe kawhi?

Ok tough guy. How about try proving me wrong?

nope, you're a racist, bad-faith arguing right-wing troll.

lmao great save

Happy National Read A Book Day, everybody! These are the books I've read so far this year, including two in progress:

1. The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson
2. The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Tsing
3. The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple
4. Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
5. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
6. The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
7. The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
8. Death's End, by Cixin Liu
9. West With the Night, by Beryl Markham
10. Passing, by Nella Larsen
11. Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
12. On Anarchism, by Noam Chomsky
13. The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel
14. The Underground Village, by Kang Kyeong-ae
15. Decolonizing Wealth, by Edgar Villanueva
16. Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
17. What Terrorists Want, by Louise Richardson
18. In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick
19. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, by Daniel Pinkwater
21. Possibilities, by David Graeber
22. The Veiled One, by Ruth Rendell
23. Faithful Place, by Tana French
24. The Participation Reader, edited by Andrea Cornwall
25. The Secret Place, by Tana French
26. The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin
27. The Obelisk Gate, by NK Jemisin
28. The Stone Sky, by NK Jemisin
29. Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Davis
30. The Black Count, by Tom Reiss
31. Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard
32. The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward
33. 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami

I loved both of the trilogies in there. A few other gems as well. Pretty good hit rate so far this year, really.

giannis going down certainly makes that sweep look likely. what a flame-out, either way.

update: even as i was writing this i was hoping i'd jinx it and the bucks would find a way to keep the series going. and holy shit, i fished my wish!

- run 18.11 km in 1:39:36
T+DI 141 but i'm sure it was lower at the start of the run. drove my parents and two friends of theirs out to a botanical garden near the end point of my normal sunday runs. they walked home from there and i did an out-and-back and then drove the car home. such a glorious day. left heel started getting a blister in the last km or so, pretty annoying. the new kinvaras are harder to lace tight for some reason.

- stretch

- run 10.01 km in 50:56
T+DI 162, again very humid. took it relatively easy and kept pace consistent, which is good.

- stretch