Lackluster
So when you drag yourself to the gym for the first time all week, your iPod is missing, and you’re feeling low-energy to begin with, it does not help when the music playing in the gym is smooth jazz,...
View ArticleNot a profound New Year entry
I may yet write something substantive with reflections re: the date ending in a different digit, but I have reason to suspect that if I do, it will be melancholy, and right now, I’d rather go for...
View ArticleConclusions and the avoidance of leaping to them
For a little while, I’ve been getting to the gym…intermittently, let’s say. I’ve been going more often in the last couple of weeks, and feeling good about it. But I started noticing that every time I...
View ArticleGym philosophy
When I do the elliptical trainer, my pace is generally about 5 miles an hour. Often, I feel bad about this. It seems so slow in comparison to the people I know who do marathons and triathlons. (We’ll...
View ArticleOne hundred degrees of perspiration
During the hottest part of the summer, I decided to take up hot yoga, because, you know, it was hot anyway. For those of you following along at home, the hot yoga occurs at a different place than the...
View ArticleFrustration into inspiration
I’ve been rereading old journals. If you have old journals (or old blog entries!) yourself, you probably know that rereading them can be an excellent way to identify recurring behavior patterns. I...
View ArticleEncounters with Gym Dudes
A side effect of going to the gym more often with an actual workout that I track in a Nerdy Little Notebook ™: more frequent run-ins with Gym Dudes. Do I need to define the Gym Dude? It signifies more...
View ArticleIn praise of the nerdy little workout notebook
I have mentioned my Nerdy Little Workout Notebook before, more than once. It coexists constantly in my bag with my journal and my writing ideas notebook. Yes, that is a lot of notebooks to lug around....
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Gym wisdom
One of the guys at the gym has Clarke Peters-level gravitas. So for purposes of this post, I’m gonna just call him Lester. Lester’s a trainer. And although I am not officially being trained by him, he...
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If you hate yoga you might not want to read this.
At the risk of resembling the spring bloom on the bottom right in the excellent botanical guide by Dylan Meconis pictured above, I want to talk a little about how yoga is helping my writing. I take...
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Post #546
1. First I have to repost these great work-in-progress photos that Erika put up of the story we’re doing for the Snow Stories anthology. It’s about getting lost, and getting un-lost. 2. I don’t have a...
View ArticleNote to self
Just because you think of yourself as something of a weightlifting badass, and just because every other woman in the class is twice your age and using one pound weights, it does not mean that for the...
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