question: I ' m pretty sure the way I feel is partly because of the crap I ' ve had to endure during the last week . I ' ve never been in such a big mess in my life and I ' m humiliated and I feel like the world is crashing down on me emotionally , physically , and financially . Not to mention the person I 'd been confiding in about all this ( my stepmother ) is going out of town to visit her mother for several days and I 'll be stuck with my dad ( who does n't want to talk about anything ) .
Q: Why is the narrator dreading the next few weeks ?

answer: Their step mom is traveling .

question: After this morning 's wonderful 5k PR , I wanted more . You 'd think running that hard would be enough for me for one day . It was n't . I wanted to get a nice , easy run to get the blood flowing to my legs and start clearing some of the metabolites from the race out .
Q: What kind of person am I ?

answer: I am hardworking and persistent .

question: It looks like an architectural nightmare . I can picture indoor astroturf and red shag carpet . So many beautiful things came out of this era ... and so many terribly ugly things too . It seems that this was really a time when people were experimenting with style .
Q: Why was the interior so poorly decorated

answer:
The styles of the time do not translate to todays standards