Hey, Hurdlers, Emily Abadi here for five-minute Friday from Hurtle.

You know the drill by now. Five minute Friday is a

segment where I bring to you a story, offer you a prompt, and then share a few of my top highlights

for the week, whether that's a podcast episode, an app, a streaming workout, a quote, you get the idea. As I have been pleading

with you, please let me know what you think of this segment and also what you want to hear

about. And if you have something you think is cool, something that's been a highlight of your

week, I am all ears.

Send them to me either over on social at Hurtle podcast and at Emily Abadi, or of course,

over email, you can hit me at Emily at hurdle.us. Now, if you follow me on Instagram,

then you know this week was a week for me, understatement. And that is because you want to be

with someone else in quarantine until that someone or something else is a mouse. Yep. Unwelcome

guest in my apartment this week. A mouse popped out. I was sitting on my couch. The other night

had just finished dinner and all of the sudden a mouse just saunteres out into the middle of my kitchen

and I was livid. I was so frustrated. It was like as if the mouse started to cripple me. So the first time I saw the mouse

was Saturday night and then he didn't pop back in again until Wednesday to say hello. And of course,

when he decides to do that again, I am in the middle of a hurdle interview and I freak out in the

audio. Oh man, for your sampling pleasure,

please take a listen.

Ah, my God!

This is the worst. Oh, my God. I just wanted to go away.

That's really funny.

Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

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