Adam

I had a mock interview last night, and the interviewer said that I had great eye contact, except right after she asked me a question, when I would stare off to the side until I had my answer. So I consider that an accomplishment.

Also, in my NaNoNovel, I notice that I spend a lot of time writing about where the characters are looking. In fact, I ran out of synonyms for “looking” about 2,000 words in. Or at least that’s what it feels like. So I can tell that it’s a pretty deeply ingrained part of my thought process now. Good times.

So then I ran two more times that week… and didn’t run at all this past week. I found several ways of telling myself that I would be better off not running, getting more sleep being the primary one, but the whole time I knew that it was mostly just me not wanting to do it. I eventually got to thinking about how I stayed fit before, and remembered that I walked well over a mile every day in college. One thing led to another, and today I walked a good hour and a half, or (according to Google maps) about 4.8 miles. Now, I don’t plan on being able to do that every day, but I was getting excited during the walk about maybe walking to class sometimes, which would be a little over an hour each way. I think I’ll wait until it gets a little cooler for that, because I’ll have to walk in the hottest part of the day carrying a laptop etc. bag, but I do plan on doing a dry run tomorrow.
Oh, and some exercise calculator I just found told me I burned about twice as many calories in that walk than I usually do running. Ha! Maybe I’ll find a good blend of the two, like walk twice and run twice every week. Really, the important thing right now is just getting active again, and not taking entire weeks off.

So today I got up at 8 and ran for 15 minutes. Realization #1 Yeah, I’m definitely out of shape. I went to class, where my instructor is infectiously excited, so the four hours flew by and I came out with renewed enthusiasm for the program. Funny how that seems to happen on live sound days. Realization #2 Live sound is definitely my current trajectory. But more importantly, Realization #3 I feel good when I get up early to exercise. I guess I should also note that I passed out at just about the right time last night, despite my best efforts, so I suppose that should be “I feel good when I get enough sleep, THEN get up early and exercise.” I was also excited about mixing up my meal plan, which includes eating more fruit. And finally, Realization #4 Grape nuts, where have you been all my life? Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven? And do you have any tips on running, because my legs hurt today from just 15 minutes of running, but you don’t seem to have any problems after running through my dreams all night.

Ah, never pass up an opportunity to rejuvenate an old and tired pick-up line.