well, i switched to decaf coffee today… that didn’t take long… ;P

Zack gave me a lecture about how social pressure can be effective to conduce exercise. well, he might have been right. i went to the workout room this morning and there were these two people: a woman in her late 20s and an older woman, apparently her trainer. that girl talked non-stop, in one of those voicesthat encourages you to utter (in your head) ‘shut up!’ i pushed myself harder today than before, because the strain of working out almost drowned out her voice.

The alarm went off at 6:25, to my discomfort. I slept poorly the night before, so I was tired and lethargic. During my usual wake-up routine, I was fighting the urge to go to the exercise room. After all, I didn’t wake up so early for no reason at all. Finally, my desire to stick to my plan won out and I walked down the hall. I only spent about 15 minutes there; the first 5 were split between the row machine and some free weights.

during the week i often think to myself how little time i have – yet today, i’ve done absolutely nothing. i took a nap, got some ice cream, read a book at the library, and dinked around on the computer (of course). now i see that the day has flown by. i played in the condo workout room a little; i think i’m going to start a workout routine. if i can follow through, i’ll start by working out in the morning on days which i’m not going to ride my bike (when i have Japanese class).

Art asked me if I wanted to do some consulting work, setting up AIX machines. I said that would be sweet. We may start after I return from Japan, if it goes through.

another week has just flown by. i’ll try to recap some of the highlights: started level 3 in my Japanese class drank too much wine while babbling with Lisa had a fun picnic at work and played bocci ball continued to make good progress on my work stuff got less exercise than i should have received the final proof for my article, due Monday