the bermuda triangle of my calendar
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lobelia321What the...? I just logged on and noted the words last posted an entry: 1 week ago. Has this ever happened before except when I've been away from home...??? *pinches self*
I wonder if I'm ill or something. Is there such an affliction as on-line aversion? LJ-forgetfulness?
So what have I been doing if not journaling? Well may you ask. *thinks* Well, the things that come to mind include:
(And I love a bullet pointed list so here's one:)
• Going to the gym!
omg, I've never been a member of a gym evah. I've always thought of myself as a non-exercising person. But now I've discovered L.A. Fitness and it's such fun! I go on the treadmill (= walking machine) and it's fun! I go on the bicycle: fun! I swim in their 17 m stumpy pool and it's fun! And then I sit in the steam sauna and meditate and do my pelvic floor exercises!
Today I met my 'personal trainer' (omg, I have a personal trainer) who showed me how to use things that are called abductor and adductor and crosstrainers (or crushtrainers, I couldn't quite catch that word) and that train muscles called lats and rhombs (or somesuch).
• Writing my thriller!
Almost a chapter a day! This flows so much better than my book on narrative in 19th C. painting ever did. I'm not tormented. I'm not angsting. I can just do this. I'm on chapter 12! Which is actually chapter 13 because there's a Prologue. It is so totally like slash. It's got real people in it, thinly disguised. It's very de-angstifying having a co-writer who furnishes the whole plot. It's like doing a remix!!! (I've never done a remix but I imagine that's what a remix is like.)
• Reading loads.
I have discovered the joys of chick lit! Sophie Kinsella in particular is such great fun! I am devouring her. Plus thrillers I get out of the local library (not t'reference one!) for 'research'.
• Preparing my teaching!
As usual, they've loaded extra teaching onto me with one week's notice but having sort of expected such shambles and mayhem I had kept my teaching load very light so have a bit of leeway. Also, trained up by my counsellor and strengthened by the tranquillisers, I decided in advance how much extra I was prepared to take on and then stuck to my guns, despite guilt-inducing pressure from colleagues who offered to do ten times as much. And it worked!
• Eating, cooking, shopping, poohing, de-fleaing t'cats, finding homes for t'kittens, ferrying t'sons to piano lessons, baking and soaking conkers in vinegar for t'younger son, mopping, shining the sink (!!), listening to 'Just A Minute', squeeing at yet another accolade for t'h who's turned into something of a celebrity in Germany and keeps winning prizes in Australia and everywhere else, that kind of thing.
ETA Googling revealed no evidence of 'rhombs' (though I am determined to track these down) but did confirm the existence in my body of: traps, delts, pecs, abs, lats, glutes and adductors. Hoho.
I wonder if I'm ill or something. Is there such an affliction as on-line aversion? LJ-forgetfulness?
So what have I been doing if not journaling? Well may you ask. *thinks* Well, the things that come to mind include:
(And I love a bullet pointed list so here's one:)
• Going to the gym!
omg, I've never been a member of a gym evah. I've always thought of myself as a non-exercising person. But now I've discovered L.A. Fitness and it's such fun! I go on the treadmill (= walking machine) and it's fun! I go on the bicycle: fun! I swim in their 17 m stumpy pool and it's fun! And then I sit in the steam sauna and meditate and do my pelvic floor exercises!
Today I met my 'personal trainer' (omg, I have a personal trainer) who showed me how to use things that are called abductor and adductor and crosstrainers (or crushtrainers, I couldn't quite catch that word) and that train muscles called lats and rhombs (or somesuch).
• Writing my thriller!
Almost a chapter a day! This flows so much better than my book on narrative in 19th C. painting ever did. I'm not tormented. I'm not angsting. I can just do this. I'm on chapter 12! Which is actually chapter 13 because there's a Prologue. It is so totally like slash. It's got real people in it, thinly disguised. It's very de-angstifying having a co-writer who furnishes the whole plot. It's like doing a remix!!! (I've never done a remix but I imagine that's what a remix is like.)
• Reading loads.
I have discovered the joys of chick lit! Sophie Kinsella in particular is such great fun! I am devouring her. Plus thrillers I get out of the local library (not t'reference one!) for 'research'.
• Preparing my teaching!
As usual, they've loaded extra teaching onto me with one week's notice but having sort of expected such shambles and mayhem I had kept my teaching load very light so have a bit of leeway. Also, trained up by my counsellor and strengthened by the tranquillisers, I decided in advance how much extra I was prepared to take on and then stuck to my guns, despite guilt-inducing pressure from colleagues who offered to do ten times as much. And it worked!
• Eating, cooking, shopping, poohing, de-fleaing t'cats, finding homes for t'kittens, ferrying t'sons to piano lessons, baking and soaking conkers in vinegar for t'younger son, mopping, shining the sink (!!), listening to 'Just A Minute', squeeing at yet another accolade for t'h who's turned into something of a celebrity in Germany and keeps winning prizes in Australia and everywhere else, that kind of thing.
ETA Googling revealed no evidence of 'rhombs' (though I am determined to track these down) but did confirm the existence in my body of: traps, delts, pecs, abs, lats, glutes and adductors. Hoho.
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Date: 2007-09-23 08:19 pm (UTC)I absolutely get in the mood for good chick lit, and thankfully have my sister to pick them out for me. I can choose anything else from the bookstore and do a good job, but I need her to weed out all the real crap from the chick lit stuff. Which isn't to say that I don't totally end up reading things that she's warned me I will hate, but at least I know that going in.
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Date: 2007-09-23 08:23 pm (UTC)So! Rec some chick lit?? I love Sophie Kinsella, and have started to read the books she published under her own name of Madeleine Wickham as well. I tried Hester Brown who was crap, and am toying with the idea of Jenny Colgan, Lauren Henderson and Lisa Jewell.
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Date: 2007-09-23 09:00 pm (UTC)I tend to pick up anything by Meg Cabot, but while I *love* her YA stuff her adult books are very hit and miss. I just borrowed Size 12 is not Fat last night, so I'll tell you how it goes, but I read The Queen of Babble recently and wouldn't recommend it. I can't remember further back to which of her other books were hits or misses. She also lent me Baby Proof by Emily Griffin but I haven't read the preceding two (which I took home too but probably won't read) because of my aversion to cheating stories.
I'm of no help.
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Date: 2007-09-25 03:20 am (UTC)Okay, so Size 12 is not Fat and sequel are both excellent if you will be less distracted than I am about all the food commentary. Which, at least for my body, does not reflect the habits me at size 12 and therefore gets my hackles up. As if there's nothing in between people who starve themselves people who stuff their face. (Or possibly more reflecting that the writer's "minimal attention" weight is a size 6. It wasn't so much that I found it offensive, although I'm more desensitized than I used to be, but I did find it distracting.) I will read the third book when my sister gets it or when I return my current set of library books, but I wouldn't buy it.
I didn't read Baby Proof because I thought it was the third in a series. Having read the back now, I might have been wrong. But I read Something Borrowed which was well done, but as mentioned not the kind of storyline I really like reading.
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Date: 2007-09-28 07:00 pm (UTC)I'm still making my way through Kinsella and will tackle Lisa Jewell next. And will check this Size 12 Fat book at my local library! T'local library is proving a treasure trove of popular literature! And I can do interlibrary loans for only one pound!
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Date: 2007-09-23 11:14 pm (UTC)Great about the book. Great! And yay for you having found the loophole (jeez! I typed "loohole" at first, not so good *sporfles*) to keep the teaching load manageable. Yep.
T'kittens? From t'cats? When did that happen? And "Just a Minute" that was that really funny, clever program MOnday nights, yes?
P.S.: Pretty sure it's crosstrainer or at least it's called that way in German fitness studios.
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Date: 2007-09-28 07:02 pm (UTC)Just a minute: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/justaminute.shtml
I love it! It's fab!
Also great is the News Quiz: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/newsquiz.shtml
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Date: 2007-09-28 08:02 pm (UTC)Pretty much my view on the crosstrainer. ;)
Just listening to it and I will give "News Quiz" a try, too.
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Date: 2007-09-24 05:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-28 07:03 pm (UTC)