My friend Erin and I have been lifting weights after work on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  We've been doing The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess.

They are hard - all compound lifts!  I leave sweat silhouettes when I lay down to stretch afterwards.  The best part is that girls who do compound lifts intimidate ( Read more... )

1) I  moved out of my parents' house.  Finally.  I now live with a 23 y.o. fireman who I almost never see, and who, inasmuch as we spend time together, is very taciturn and gentlemanly.  He has an American bulldog named Cheyenne, who I love more than most people.  It's not a bad situation for right now at all.

2) Work is going well, as far as I can ( Read more... )

 Additionally:

I was incredibly cranky on Monday night, and lifting with Terri and Brandon, as well as Brandon's surprise gift of cinnamon-cloves-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip cookies really helped.  Then, on Tuesday night, Alyssa dealt with a very frazzled me on her doorstep.  We read each other poetry all evening (starting with Keats and ending ( Read more... )

OK, my foot hurts again.  Much as I love it, running may not be the sport for me.  I'm going to rest up another week to see if the ache recedes and, if so, start back up again ( Read more... )

w 'member when, in the Bible, scales fell from Saul's eyes?  I just Googled the phrase, to get a better sense of the story behind it.  What I remember from being a girl attending Episcopal church each Sunday, is that I was horrified at the thought of scales falling from my eyes or, for Pharaoh, my heart hardening.  I imagined it in such clinical ( Read more... )

You know that meme that's floating around, "I Write Like..."?  It has said three times that I write like David Foster Wallace, one time like Chuck Palahniuk, and another time like Stephen King.  Not what I expected. Tariq got Wallace a couple of times too, which either means that he and I have similar writing styles or that the program defaults to ( Read more... )

Last night was a classic Burnett night ( Read more... )

 And when I did tell her, I made her cry.  Why doesn't anyone talk about this awful aspect of job searching?

 I do not want to tell the neuropsychology people about the new job tomorrow morning.  I really, truly hate disappointing people.

 One of the things I've been happiest about here, is that Brandon and Terri lift weights regularly.  Of course, Brandon does his own powerlifting thing whereas Terri and I have been on the same program from The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess.  Hokey title, Brandon has his thoughts on how the lifting schedule ( Read more... )