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Jo Giles of UNMC Public Affairs demonstrates the No. 3 sign that one is obsessed with a pedometer — walking while using wireless Internet to check on her fantasy football team — the Fighting Dungys. The Dungys, who are named for Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, were 1-1 through two weeks, including a heartbreaking loss in week one by less than a point. On the bright side, Giles — who recently started at UNMC — already has passed the 250,000 step mark in the 1 Million Step Challenge. |
10. You place your pedometer in a zip lock bag and hang it around your neck while marching in place during your morning shower.
9. You seriously consider walking downtown to meet your friends for lunch in the Old Market.
8. You discard outfits in the morning that don’t accommodate the clip of your pedometer.
7. You leave your pedometer on when you go to sleep in the off chance that you are a sleepwalker.
6. When asked “Do you want to go to Barretts?” for lunch, you instinctively flip open your pedometer and calculate the steps vs. Husker Burger ratio.
5. You discard outfits in the morning that don’t accommodate the clip of your pedometer.
4. You now know where Gothenburg is.
3. You love wireless Internet because it allows you to walk around the house while setting your fantasy football lineup.
2. You discover your pedometer adds another step when you close the cover on it, thus causing you to develop the annoying habit of clicking the cover open and shut 20 to 30 times a minute during meetings.
1. A million steps is not enough.
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The following is a list of UNMC employees who have recently reached one of the 250,000-step markers in the 1 Million Step Challenge. Send an e-mail to today@unmc.edu with your name, department and tell us what step milestone you reached and we’ll post it on the list.
750,000 steps
- Dana Meyer, orthopaedic surgery
- Elaine Litton, internal medicine
- Dana Meyer, orthopaedic surgery
- Cyndie Poffenbarger, sponsored programs accounting
- YanYan Zhu, sponsored programs accounting
1 million steps
- Kathy Austin, ophthalmology and visual sciences
- Steve Byrne, sponsored programs accounting
- Jeff Broberg, sponsored programs accounting
- Don Leuenberger, business and finance
- Cindy Mitchell, international health and medical education
- Sue Miyeno, School of Allied Health Professions
- Pat O’Neil, sponsored programs accounting
- Peggy Pelish, Ph.D., College of Nursing
- Jenelle Pomicter, biostatistics and epidemiology
- Jan Tompkins, School of Allied Health Professions
- Valarie Warner, sponsored programs accounting
2 million steps
- Julie Carstens, Munroe-Meyer Institute