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intake. I’m not trying for total abstinence from white sugar, but mainly I was working on not drinking my beverages as sweet- because otherwise I am not a huge sugar eater. Anyway, I’m going to say this goal is done; I might revisit it, if it seems good to do further cuts.

6/2/09
1:20:00 project work (Collecting)

6/3/09
1:00:00 project work (Bishop Bishop Vermon reply to comments)

6/4/09
1:09:45 project work (NWSA)
1:00:00 project work (Bishop Bishop)
14:54 writing (An Exercise Log)

2.10 miles walking, 32:32 mins, 15:23 min/mile, 306 calories
25 push ups
200 crunches, 3 sets of 50, 1 set of 30, 1 set of 20
2 sets of bridge pose, each help for a count of 30

6/6/09
2.24 miles walking, 34:57 mins, 15:32 min/mile, 325 calories
26 push ups
9:50 writing (An Exercise log)

6/7/09
6:00:00 (yes, hours) art promotion (setting up online community arts & culture calendar- big pain in the tuckus)
30:00 project work (NWSA- beginning to set up wiki for workshop)

6/8/09
1:30:00 arts promotion (bits and pieces and more online calendar tweaking)
15:00 project work (various email writing about different projects)
10:58 writing (An Exercise log)

2.38 miles walking, 37:44 mins, 15:48 min/mile, 346 calories
36 push ups, one set of 21, one set of 15
190 crunches, four sets: 40, 50, 50, 25, 25 (too many- need to get better, more varied ab work out)
2 sets bridge pose, each for count of 30

26. Love and Faith, an short audio piece from the author of a play about two Gay men in love- one an atheist, the other a Christian.

27. After Theory by Terry Eagleton- a nice big, fat book about theory, which I enjoyed very much. I like Eagleton’s writing more than a little, and I love the little bits of cattiness that pop up in his writing.

28. “Is Bad Writing Necessary? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Language” by James Miller, in Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca, edited by Alexander Star. Enjoyable and though provoking, related back to some of Eagleton’s discussion of writing about complex ideas in interesting ways.

29. “Putting the Camp Back into Campus: Notes on a Fanzine” by Larissa Macfarquhar, also in Quick Studies. Entertaining piece that proves as much as I may enjoy some of Judith Butler’s ideas, she has no sense of humor whatsoever and little understanding that choosing to be a public voice on issues means that one’s person and scholarship are fair game for lampooning and satire.

30. “The Stand: Expert Witnesses and Ancient Mysteries in a Colorado Courtroom” by Daniel Mendelsohn, also in Quick Studies. An interesting examination of what happens when scholars of philosophy, Greek and law are brought into the courtroom to debate whether or not Plato condemned homosexual acts (versus homosexual affect).