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Fire
There is a derelict church at the end of my street. Was? Not sure yet. Just a smallish urban church, brick, beautiful old building.
Today at work I checked facebook and saw a friend mention that she'd seen a big fire over in my neighborhood and I thought vaguely that I hoped it wasn't too near us. Cycling home, my phone was ringing off the hook in ( Read more... ) -
Bread and Roses
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our ( Read more... ) -
pain tolerance
My dysmenorrhea hit me with a vengeance last night ( Read more... ) -
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I've been having kind of a crisis of faith lately. This post is a rambling look at that so I can try to work it out. It will probably be boring for anyone but me.
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I have a problem
My dad was an enormous workaholic. This was mostly fine, because he was a) very passionate about his work, and justifiably so, and b) worked from home a lot of the time, so it wasn't like we never saw him.
I think I've inherited his workaholism (workaholicism?), though.
Worse, I seem to have some kind of addiction to coming up with business ideas.
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I actually did manage to find the numbers for women's powerlifting competitions in Scotland.
And what they told me was, if I get back down under 63 kg (which is my lowest weight, but I can do this if I stop fucking around), I will actually be pretty competitive for my weight class.
Warning: The rest of this post is entirely about weight lifting, and ( Read more... ) -
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Warning: This is very rambling. Also, I compare weight-lifting and sex. So you may want to skip it.
I suck at blogging. On a variety of levels. I suck at a lot of stuff, actually. But that's okay. I'm human. And I feel good about that.
Yesterday I lifted heavy things. A lot. It was a deadlifts day, and I'm doing 90 kilos at 5 reps on deadlift days ( Read more... ) -
Note to self...
The Quitter
By: Robert Service
When you’re lost in the Wild, and you’re scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you’re sore as a boil, it’s according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and . . . die.
But the Code of a Man says: “Fight all you can,”
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy to blow . . .
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to do today ( Read more... )