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fredericksMy weekend has been lovely and amazing and v. v. restful, for which I am grateful. I am determined to return to my Optimum Level of Health starting this week, and that means restarting the early wake-up calls to get in some exercise prior to work. I think just being able to go to the gym for three or four sessions between now and Friday would do me some good in regards to better regulating my eating. One of the problems is that I've become very self-conscious when going to this gym because 99% of the clientele are the super slim perk Manhattanites of whom I often find myself envious. But, yes, I will suck it up and work it out. Literally.
I found a longhand journal entry I'd written in February 2000, during my sophomore year. The issues I brought up then? Same things I'm dealing with now, sans bitching about Organic Chemistry. Joy. Funny bit? I bitched about my hand cramping up after writing a full paragraph. I don't think I've written that much longhand since.
Got tickets for Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake Halloween night, and I'm eager to see the performance. I was eyeing Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, but the clip of the performance on the website (to the song "Populism, Yea, Yea!") didn't exactly excite me. The press is pushing this one hard; surely the producers haven't paid *everyone* off and the show is enjoyable, right? I'm not sold right now.
On the reading front I tried to continue Patrick Ness's Knife of Chaos series by getting my hands on book two, The Ask and the Answer. "Tried" being the key word. I got three pages into a interrogation/torture scene before hitting critical mass and putting the book down. I think I'll be able to sit through the New Caprica portion of Battlestar Galactica again before I can trudge through the dreariness of Chaos. I'm supposed to be reading Thomas Kennedy's In the Company of Angels for a new book club I'd like to join, but that book isn't my usual cup of tea so it's slow going at the moment. I do have a week to finish up, though, so I should be okay.
Movie-wise I saw Red on Saturday. It was a no-brain necessary movie, not terrible, but not something that I'd recommend to see in theatres. Unless you somehow manage to find a true matinee deal in Manhattan and manage to snag a ticket for $6.00 (the AMC on E19th and B'way, btw). I damn near spazzed out. Although you get what you pay for, because that place smelled moldy and I kept wondering about the possibility of acquiring bedbugs. But other than that... SIX DOLLARS! Amazing.
I found a longhand journal entry I'd written in February 2000, during my sophomore year. The issues I brought up then? Same things I'm dealing with now, sans bitching about Organic Chemistry. Joy. Funny bit? I bitched about my hand cramping up after writing a full paragraph. I don't think I've written that much longhand since.
Got tickets for Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake Halloween night, and I'm eager to see the performance. I was eyeing Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, but the clip of the performance on the website (to the song "Populism, Yea, Yea!") didn't exactly excite me. The press is pushing this one hard; surely the producers haven't paid *everyone* off and the show is enjoyable, right? I'm not sold right now.
On the reading front I tried to continue Patrick Ness's Knife of Chaos series by getting my hands on book two, The Ask and the Answer. "Tried" being the key word. I got three pages into a interrogation/torture scene before hitting critical mass and putting the book down. I think I'll be able to sit through the New Caprica portion of Battlestar Galactica again before I can trudge through the dreariness of Chaos. I'm supposed to be reading Thomas Kennedy's In the Company of Angels for a new book club I'd like to join, but that book isn't my usual cup of tea so it's slow going at the moment. I do have a week to finish up, though, so I should be okay.
Movie-wise I saw Red on Saturday. It was a no-brain necessary movie, not terrible, but not something that I'd recommend to see in theatres. Unless you somehow manage to find a true matinee deal in Manhattan and manage to snag a ticket for $6.00 (the AMC on E19th and B'way, btw). I damn near spazzed out. Although you get what you pay for, because that place smelled moldy and I kept wondering about the possibility of acquiring bedbugs. But other than that... SIX DOLLARS! Amazing.
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-18 03:28 am (UTC)Fit people at the gym can definitely be a little intimidating and/or irritating. Luckily, an LA Fitness opened up around here last year and all of the pretty people out to impress rushed over to the shiny new gym so it's mostly just my fellow average folk left. I'd probably be much more self-conscious about what I look like around a bunch of fit, pretty people. I refuse to be embarrassed about my air drumming, though. Fuck it, sometimes I just need to have a moment with Aerosmith or GNR, y'know?
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Date: 2010-10-19 12:09 am (UTC)*grin* I totally do know. I do way too much air drumming when at the gym. Place gets packed with the folks getting out of work about the time I get there, but screw them! They'll have to deal with my bopping.
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Date: 2010-10-18 12:17 pm (UTC)Too bad about Red -- a fun cast and the promise of Helen Mirren with automatic weapons was tempting. Guess it'll be a Netflix!
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Date: 2010-10-19 12:11 am (UTC)Red definitely was nothing more than a popcorn movie. I'm not sure how much of that is due to the original comic versus the screenplay. And such great potential from the cast as well.
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Date: 2010-10-21 04:42 pm (UTC)