atonement

oh hai

welcome back to my mediocrity

• run/walk on treadmill - 5.5km
• tricep dips - 95
• back extensions - 80
• press ups (full) - 10

i made another important discovery today, too

a very good song for running at 10.5 - 11.0 on the treadmill is weezer's "say it ain't so"

there's something terribly satisfying about pounding on a motorised belt in time to the chorus

but don't yowl the lyrics loudly at a poignant moment in the song

and nobody knows what you're talking about when you say "wrestle with jimmy" out loud

that's okay, though

most people there have learned that you're one of the great sweaters at world, and to stay away from you

atonement

i felt suprisingly nimble this morning

despite last night's 50km effort

so it was back to world, and i hopped on the bike to further green team's challenge (currently we're about 9th place out of 20)

• bike - 20km (43 min)
• boxing - 30 min

and the best song, to go roolly roolly fast on a high resistance on race setting when you're trying your hardest to do ten km in less than 15 minutes is pavement's "it's a rainy day sunshine girl"

bitter chocolate

ok

i may have been a little harsh

and it IS only about chocolate and dieting

srsly

(ha ha, i just this second got an email from ivillage - "eat a lot of chocolate - you may be depressed" - really, ivillage? really?)

as many, many , many people know, cooking chocolate can be the main ingredient of fabulous and wonderful creations. just take a minute to consider, and....here you go:

• delicioso
• warm
• complex
• complimentary

but very moreish

the more you have, the more you want and the worse you'll behave to get it

you could have a little bit, but that's no good

so none is better

atonement

no more running at the moment

that's a grand thing

onto the 311km biking stage

• 50km bike (88 minutes)

and i was gym trash, reading my book, texting on my phone and listening to my ipod all at once

i might have sweated more than i should have

and when i went to walk down the stairs afterwards it was nearly like on "run fat boy run" when simon pegg does the spin class with hank azaria

or on "how i met your mother" when barney says that you don't train for a marathon, you just run it, so he does, and then he can't get up to get out of the subway carriage

which is why i'm posting this from the mighty corona

pity chocolate

princess fiona wisely says "a relapse does not mean a return to lifestyle"

this is correct

it's like breaking your diet with compound cooking chocolate - you think it's a good idea and necessary at the time

but

ultimately it's

• fatty
• disappointing
• dissatisfying
• cloying

and will be every time you cave

so, advice for the future: get the good stuff next time

atonement

i wasn't going to go because of tiredness and the lingering pain from yesterday's session

but a sandwich and an inner dialogue later found me back at the gym - still chipping away at the 59km run stage

• run/walk - 3km
• squats - 20
• tricep dips - 20
• back extensions - 20

you'll have noticed that's only 3km done and dusted

that's because i've worn out my brooks vapor 8 running shoes and i have two matching blisters on my insteps

i feel some sporty retail therapy coming on

atonement

• run/walk on treadmill - 6km
• boxing session - 30 min
• tricep dips - 50
• back extensions - 50
• squats - 60

vege soup for tea

and the inner glow that only comes from losing 2.4kg in a week

time difference

today was not one of the better days for the chirst

it could have been much worse, but admittedly, it could have been much better

i haven't been feeling so crash hot the last few days, so i've spent most of the day cocooned in my awesome bed, watching the rest of season 2 of 'house', and then i finally went to the video store and procured 'the time traveler's wife' to watch (sidebar - in line with the miles/jack dichotomy of 'sideways' i've diagnosed myself as having house/wilson dualism - as you were)

if you've read the book and if you know me at all and if you've read this then that gives you kind of a gauge to check for your chirst

and oh, it was just like i thought it would be. nowhere near as good as the book, bien sur, but they have a pavement poster in it! henry and claire are supposed to go to a violent femmes concert, which is totally omitted, but henry comes out of a concert and you can see pavement posters on the walls - apparently pavement are one of the director's favourite bands.

henry and claire, especially towards the end, can be seen as a filmic representation of "want but can not has" - i think this is what strikes a chord with me. that and the love and the desire and the want. all of that.

all of it

atonement

• bike 25km (55 min)

apparently i wasn't caning it quite as fast as last night

and then i lay down in the "ready to receive cpr" position on the mat for a while

and i saw james cameron and lily allen

pun of the week (2)

the other day that was the same day as the other day i just mentioned, i showed bajoolies my arm because i woke up with two tiny tiny round bruises on my upper inner arm

"hmmm", i observed, "it almost looks like i've been bitten by a snake"

"hang on", said bajoolies, "there's three of them, all in a row - it looks like somebody's forked you"

"no", i replied, deadpan again, "i told you it's been a while"

pun of the week (1)

the other day bajoolies leaned in close, and peered intently at my brows

"hmmm", she said, "you need a pluck"

"yes" i replied, deadpan, "it's been a while"

atonement

i was all prepared to row

all prepared, all day

and when i got there, i'd been surpassed already

so straight on to the 330km bike for the chirst, then

• bike - 23km (41 mins)

i would have gone for longer but apparently other people have lives and the gym closes at 8pm

i'll try again tomorrow if i happen to be ambulatory

we'll see

empty bowl syndrome

pavement are playing at the hollywood bowl in la in september

again: pavement. la. september.

the hollywood bowl is my most desired and coveted location for seeing a band i love

death cab for cutie played there last year or the year before and i thought "man, that would be cool" after watching a few clips on youtube

and then i saw it (the hollywood bowl) on "the new adventures of old chirstine" and "yes man" and i thought "sigh. imagine if my favourite band ever played there. just imagine if pavement played there and i could see them"

and now i get an email from the nice crookedrain people to say "hi there little chirsty. there is but you most prolly can not has"

that's a bit of a theme here in chirstworld, isn't it?

"there is, but can not has"

yeah yeah, i'm aware that i'm lapsing further into lolspeak speak more and more often. did you know that there is a lolcat translation project, where they have translated teh bibel into lolspeak? lolspeak, or lolcat speak is also known as kitty pidgin english. srsly.

it must be contagious, too, because yesterday bajoolies and i were at mykaryn's for lunch, and her cat got up to sit on the chair at the table. before i could even begin to construct an appropriate lolsentence, bajoolies trumped me with "oh hai! you can has teh noms!"

srsly

kthxbai

atonement

i got to the gym today, and my team (green, same as last year, with 50% repeatability in team membership) had 4.8km left to do on the run from the bottom to the top of stewart island

so today i managed

• run/walk 5.7km (45 min)
• 30 min boxing

progressively, throughout the day, i've been less and less able to move around freely. it's owey and painful and not conducive to making me want to go back tomorrow to carry on with the 40km virtual row across foveaux strait

team spirit aka peer pressure is a terrible terrible thing

terrible

atonement

let's get this show on the road again

i've never really bounced back since the delightful h1n1 time of december, and my bouncing is getting heavier and slower

giving up smoking, cutting down on drinking and disturbances in the force have compounded the problem

this year's adventure race has begun at the gym, so that's going to lead to insane amounts of indoor cardio because i have a competitive streak

• boxing - 30 minutes
• treadmill - (walk/run) 5km
• full press ups - 50
• crunches - 70

i know what you're thinking

"that doesn't sound so terribly competitive, tubby"

yeah but not but yeah but no but

the day's not over yet, is it? i mean, i haven't even BEGUN to sing

sigh

brevity, thy name is

twitter, eh?

don't think so, but we'll see

night watch

it's ok

srsly

go back to sleep

i'm looking after the world

clinical picture

T 37.4 (o)
P 83/min (reg)
RR 13/min
BP 103/75
SaO2 98% (RA)

role model

in "friends with money" frances mcdormand plays jane

jane is

angry

upset

articulate

scathing

stops washing her hair

has road rage

tells people what she thinks

i luffs her

lolcat of the day

i weigh *insert undisclosed amount* again

i'm sick

i'm cranky

work is a gargantuan effort

my gameface is getting harder to maintain

i'd have to move up several points to be considered at all euthymic

i'm distracted enough that i've almost caused two major car accidents

i live to bingewatch tv on dvd in my awesome bed
i'm single - it would seem chronically so

it might as well be 2007/8/9

except my cell phone is brokened

and

i've misplaced my favourite earrings

talk about insult to injury

(no, don't, or i'll poke you in the eye

take that to the bank, y'all)

see, for?

i should have been in bed hours ago
hours and hours and hours
but my willpower is such that my mission bedwards has been thwarted by c4's 'insomnia'

• pavement
• the white stripes
• happy mondays
• the pixies
• the postal service
• supergrass
• the yeah yeah yeahs
• queens of the stoneage
• basement jaxx
• the chemical brothers

but i really really really really must

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