Overcoming Gym Aversion

When did my exercise aversion begin?  I’m thinking elementary school.  My feet point outward, and I am a terrible runner, and this didn’t go unnoticed by my fellow first-graders.  As a sensitive kid, it got to me.  P.E. was always a dreaded subject.  I was terrible at most aspects of the Presidential Fitness Test.  Luckily [...]

In our Hearts and Heads

Even though the creepy factor is high, I really liked this article in the New York Times about innocent city voyeurism…  I love that part of cities — sort of but not really knowing strangers, the bits of others’ lives that lightly graze your own.  It’s lonely sometimes, but then so is living in a [...]

11 11

I feel full.  I feel like I’ve felt full for days and days, even though I distinctly remember being stomach-growling-hungry today at 11, yesterday at 4, etc., etc.  Ugh.
Also: sluggish.  And in a fog.  Just sort of bleh.  And I have three pimples around my mouth like punishment for eating fries or something.  Plus it’s [...]

Confession

I’ve taken to keeping a tiara in my car.  You know, just in case (thanks, Paul).

Another Geek Crush

Mark Bittman, in an interview with Time Out New York:
Question: “What would you say is the most important skill to develop in the kitchen?
Answer: “The ability to go in there and start. I am the least impressive cook you will ever see. I am completely without knife skills, I screw things up all the time. [...]

Plans and More Blog Appreciation

On the list for today:

Sale at my favorite Cherry Creek North store
Personal statement writing for grad school applications
Also: no freaking out about grad school applications and/or the cost of the programs.  It will all be okay/I can worry about it later
RAAP hotline shift
Cleaning
Making dinner for someone (given my lack of skill/confidence in the kitchen, it [...]

A Lady’s Charm

This woman is going to be famous.  Allie Pohl, who I know as a graduate student in DU’s eMAD MFA program (how’s that for acronyms?), has created these lovely lady charms.  She doesn’t have a name for them quite yet (and is taking suggestions) is calling them Ideal Woman Necklaces, but at work we’ve nicknamed [...]

George Lakoff at DU on Monday

I haven’t ever read one of his books in full, but I’ve seen George Lakoff quoted a lot, especially in library science literature, in terms of categorizing things and creating metaphors (most recently in Ambient Findability).  Apparently lawyers like him too, and he’s speaking (as a “political communications expert” — who knew?) at DU’s Sturm [...]

Required Reading

Everyone everywhere who has ever been in love should read On Love by Alain de Botton.  The cover tells us it’s a novel, but it’s kind of a novel-as-vessel for a couple hundred mini-essays on love and human nature.
Today feels like it’s already lasted at least 40 hours.

Talk Me Down

I’m thinking of moving this

to my bedroom.  I think it would look nice on the nightstand.  You know, hotel-style.  All those years of dorm-room and studio living, thinking more than one room would make me sane, and this is what I long for…