So what has been happening at work lately is:

1. They tell me to do something,
2. I tell them it’s stupid via email,
3. I tell them it’s stupid in person, then
4. I end up doing what they asked in the first place.

One of my problems is that I’m quite emphatic in my resistance to their demands. I really should learn to just jump to step 4. That’s the engineer in me. Especially the MIT engineer in me. I ended up staying late to finish up the thing I was complaining about this time. I’m not so clever.

The reasons I pay a personal trainer are myriad, but one of the reasons is that Dave the Trainer appears to know what he’s doing and I end up finding muscles in places that I thought were fine until I find out just how sore they can get. For example, he had me doing some really simple crunches while I held a cable up to my neck. There wasn’t much weight on the cable and I didn’t think much of the crunches UNTIL TODAY. I bet if I got enough sleep the soreness wouldn’t take a full day to show up.