I still have a cold. 12 hours sleep on Friday night, 10 hours sleep on Saturday night. The best part is that I don’t have to feel guilty about my lack of gumption (or vocabulary right now). All I did yesterday was watch the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament and then Constantine when it came on cable.
So I have a new plan: to get an Argentinian girlfriend. It will annoy my Peruvian friends and when she finds out I have Peruvian friends, she’ll be annoyed too.
I didn’t say it was a good plan.
This means that I won’t be able to maximize the number of times I go to the gym, thereby taking food out of the mouth of the gym-owner’s kid. It’s probably for the best. I got home from work a couple of hours early and took a short nap. A short 3-hour nap. Then I went to sleep around 11 and got up around 11. I can tell that there’s still something wrong because drinking hot tea is making me break out into a cold sweat.
The worst part is that I got an invitation to a party JUST LAST NIGHT (Friday) for today (Saturday)! I may feel better by then, but I figure I’ll really have to play it by ear.
Now it’s time to get myself healthy enough to watch two basketball games. 🙂
So last night I woke up a few times feeling like I had to sneeze. And at work I was sneezing as well. It definitely felt like hay fever. Turns out I wasn’t the only one. A co-worker told me his symptoms started up today and so did my sister. Ah, springtime.
I dragged myself down to the gym. There’s usually 3 phases to the workout: warm up, skills (learning things we do during the main workouts), and the Workout Of the Day (WOD). I really wanted it to be:
Fortunately, I felt better after moving a bit, and didn’t have much trouble with my hay fever until I started walking home. I remember the past few springs, having to go to my old gym to do my cardio because there was too much pollen outside. If I was lucky, they’d leave the big doors closed and we wouldn’t get any crosswind bringing in the allergens. I guess I’m just lucky that it comes and goes as the seasons change.
And with that I can’t think of what else I was doing. Time to try to get to bed early (hah!).
Funny how I hear weird Eurodisco and I can’t even buy it over here in ‘merika. I just have to find it somehow. Some of my favorite is the Mash-Up mixes. The best one that I bought was Alcazar’s mix of “Upside Down” by Diana Ross and “This is the World We Live In” by Genesis. But the best stuff is probably just underground. How would you get the rights to mix “Smack My Bitch Up” by Prodigy and “Orinoco Flow” by Enya? I just wish I could get more of that. My iPod usually sounds like a gay disco anyway.
I don’t think I did anything spectacular at the gym today besides coming in last in the timed portion again. Dumbbell cleans to split press just kind of sucks. But I did get a personal best on a 500m row. Even after I was sucking serious wind towards the end. I wonder how I would have done after eating a cheeseburger for lunch?
The problem is I had Phở for lunch. They always sell me a large (“It’s only $0.50 more!”) and I can’t be trusted to keep from drinking all the broth. That just overfills my stomach and makes me feel bad. You’re probably thinking, “Aren’t you an adult and responsible for your own actions?” and I would have to answer, “No.” I cannot be trusted with Phở. I also can’t be trusted at a buffet, nor can I be trusted to keep from eating everything on my plate. Everyone has issues, right?
The closest to a prank I saw was just pictures of me making funny faces at the gym. I was told that I could use this one where I’m not making a horrible face. I think it was suggested that I put in in a “Personals” ad, but we all know how well that usually turns out for me.
I survived my 6AM phone meeting only to have to get out and scrape the ice off my car for the commute. I got to work and I was trying to figure out what I’m doing, trying to hide the fact that I’m a big fraud. That’s my big worry, that I’ll get found out. But really, I’m actually learning enough to be of some help.
It was a nice afternoon and a small turnout at the gym. I guess people were busy doing other things in the nice weather. It was a fun workout and I only caught the medicine ball with my face once. I think they missed taking a picture of that.