2 miles

so it turns out i’ve been (mostly) running two miles a day in the month of september. sweet! thanks, google maps.

first day of school… so tiring

i am “i feel like i just got off a plane” tired. weak, slightly nauseous… i’m thinking it’s a hangover from tea.

i really hope the annoying guy in my classes drops out of the major.

caffeine = bad for me

ugh, three (or was it four?) 12-oz cups of tea during work leaves me feeling slightly nauseous, and with quicker movements. sleep will not come easily tonight.

running hiatus

deciding to bleach my hair today (new patches to be expected), with the disruption to my showering schedule, i decided that i might take this week off from running. now, i may feel compelled to run as i do right now in the coming days, but i believe that my overwhelming laziness and aversion to sweat and exertion will win out. let’s see if i will lose muscle, weight, and appetite. consider this the last part of the summer 2009 exercise experiment.

in other news, i think i may have finished a piano piece today. now i’m going to download lilypond and try to write it out in real music notation.

*edit*

couldn’t stay away from the running. started jogging after four days instead of seven.

discouragement

i’m thinking about taking a rest day from my jogging tomorrow. my hamstrings have been feeling sore/strained, so maybe i need a “rest day”. maybe it was from the shoe-switching, or maybe it was because i didn’t eat a real breakfast, or because i didn’t drink enough water (which i never do). or maybe i’m pushing myself more than necessary. what’s the point, though? today, a guy passed me faster than i could have passed a snail, and i was discouraged about this dream of calling myself a runner. i’m no better than i ever was in middle and high school.

athletes only have rest days once a week, though. the rest of us mortals are only recommended to do cardio three times a week, a.k.a. every other day. sigh. i really wonder what it’s like to be an “elite runner”. is it just easier for them to be so fast, or is their willpower beyond my imagination?

the verdict

running in cushioned shoes is definitely harder than running in flat shoes. my legs were unusually tired today.

i might try running in converses tomorrow. x_x

soggy feet

my first blister. = /

it’s weird how i feel most capable of running at the end of my run.

as a side note: why is my hardware clock so off???

[edit]

installed open ntpd (network time protocal daemon). time is now correcto!

facebook is crazy far-reaching

good god, my dad is on facebook, whyyyyy….

google: search and destroy

i found a $5 shirt for albert that was white with black text. printed under “google” (not the official logo), were two buttons: “search” and “destroy”. funny how “destroy” doesn’t come to mind when you search the internet.

meanwhile, i am painting a shirt that i similarly cut the sleeves off of. it’s a quote from the animorphs: “I would go postal, but i have no mail”, and i painted a running envelope in the corner. i didn’t plan it out very well, so the design’s not that great, sigh.

ugh

oh econ. such a pointless class. bombed the quiz today and studied afterwards to make up for it. doing that kind of demonstrates my apathy for the class. i’m lazy, so i wait until after the quiz to figure out what i’m supposed to learn. learn the material before or after, it doesn’t matter, because the knowledge is useless to me in the long run. i should skip the aimless Q&A rambling excuses for lectures that i sit through every day. gawd.

linux, however!… you can’t deny that it’s useless. the rewards are long-term and useful. that is probably why i upgraded my kernel and downloaded goodies for the desktop last night instead of studying for econ. totally justified…

reading a good book called “mappa mundi” by justina robson. just finished “crossover” by joel shepherd.

only 2 more weeks of school left!

abominable story of the day:

Who Gets to Make Medical Decisions for Pregnant Women?

Sound crazy? Well something along these lines happened to Samantha Burton, a mother of two in Florida who was 25 weeks pregnant when she was hospitalized against her will due to pregnancy complications. When she requested a transfer to another hospital so she could get a second opinion, the state refused because it was not in the fetus’ “best interests at the time.” After three days in state-mandated confinement, Ms. Burton lost the baby.

martydd: “Women are, after all, mere vessels. The contents of their uterus have greater rights than they do.”