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"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. ... I felt
very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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"On the surface, it sounds irresponsible, but to flourish in a rapidly changing world, you actually need to make more mistakes. Fail quickly. Fail often. If you do something and it
doesn't work, just recover in a hurry and try something else. ... Help develop a culture that is willing to fail its way to the future."
-- Price Pritchett, Culture Shift |
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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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| it's like that fats domino song |
| Monday, June 29, 2009 |
I may have mentioned to some of you that I've taken up walking in the evenings. That's right, I'm deliberately getting exercise. I got the idea from my folks, who walk 3+ miles a night for health reasons. I've started noticing more muffin-top action over the last few years than I'd like, and I don't have the spare cash laying around to go torture myself at a gym, so... I walk. Two miles a night, now. I started small, right after we got back from Texas, at one mile a night, and quickly moved up to two. It's only been a couple of weeks, and I'm already noticing how much better I feel the next day, and most of the time I'm not even winded at the end of the two miles, so there you go.
I had to miss several days last week because it was so damned hot and/or raining, but that seems to have calmed down some, and I'm back to my routine. I take the GPS with me, and that helps me keep track of how far I've gone... although coming soon, I won't need that anymore, because I've got a nice route all nailed down, and in fact, I didn't even need the GPS tonight, so I'll probably leave it at home from now on. I probably will invest in a nice big can of pepper spray, though.
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