what happened?
i got an email from sara yesterday complaining that i have not posted in a few days. there is a good explanation for this...i work 4 day weekends and my shifts are 11 hours long. there is little computer time during these days and i am generally just too tired to do anything but work and sleep. today i have some time to post, but i am afraid something terrible has happened. i don't have a subject. i usually write about the exceptionally uninteresting and uneventful, but there is at least an experience that triggers some kind of interpretation that i must share. today. nothing.
but i would like to continue to discuss the on-going goal-setting behavior which has recently overtaken my life and mind. i seem to have tricked a friend of mine into obsessive achievement of the mundane and now we have a notebook which we are feverishly filling with individual and shared objectives. it all started because she read my post about goals and she wanted to learn all of the words to "one week" also. so i immediately assumed that she also wanted to become insane and obsessive with me and that she loves to set herself up to feel like a miserable failure as i apparently do, and i said, we should write down all of the things we want to do and keep them all together in a book!
as of yesterday, we have ourselves participating in things like "Tae Bo at least twice per week" (AFTER WORK!). "after work" is 11pm when we're lucky. so we have committed ourselves to bouncing around and punching the air for like an hour after approximately 10-12 hours of work. who does Tae Bo in the middle of the night? morons. and sweet intelligent people who happen to be easily misled into poor choices by morons. in our situation, we have the added problem of our shared tendency toward incessant conversation. so on the first day of our new goal, we went into the basement of our place of employment and began a Tao Bo workout at approximately 1:00am. a strange behavior, but it was fun, so the goal shall continue. and it can only get better from here. the element that i had failed to consider was that Tae Bo is freaking hard! i mean, it's an excellent workout and makes me sweat, but that is not the kind of hard i am talking about. i am talking about the exercises and punches and kicks. i can't do all that shit! i was in the weight room destroying my joints while my friends were in dance class. whatever it is that makes people able to keep up with Billy Blanks and Jane Fonda (in her day) i do not have. kim has it. she knew what they were doing and she was punching in the right direction and her feet moved at a pace indistinguishable from the beat of the music. this girl? i was just glad to only almost fall down. i have always avoided group fitness classes exclusively because of the performance factor. my mind has certainly not been changed as a result of last night's performance. but i do think it is good for people to force themselves to do things that they are not good at or have no experience of. keeps us human. every now and then i like to be reminded that in 99.999% of skillful activities, i am a spinning idiot. i feel like a better person because of it. but i think i will still keep the audience to a maximum of one.
but i would like to continue to discuss the on-going goal-setting behavior which has recently overtaken my life and mind. i seem to have tricked a friend of mine into obsessive achievement of the mundane and now we have a notebook which we are feverishly filling with individual and shared objectives. it all started because she read my post about goals and she wanted to learn all of the words to "one week" also. so i immediately assumed that she also wanted to become insane and obsessive with me and that she loves to set herself up to feel like a miserable failure as i apparently do, and i said, we should write down all of the things we want to do and keep them all together in a book!
as of yesterday, we have ourselves participating in things like "Tae Bo at least twice per week" (AFTER WORK!). "after work" is 11pm when we're lucky. so we have committed ourselves to bouncing around and punching the air for like an hour after approximately 10-12 hours of work. who does Tae Bo in the middle of the night? morons. and sweet intelligent people who happen to be easily misled into poor choices by morons. in our situation, we have the added problem of our shared tendency toward incessant conversation. so on the first day of our new goal, we went into the basement of our place of employment and began a Tao Bo workout at approximately 1:00am. a strange behavior, but it was fun, so the goal shall continue. and it can only get better from here. the element that i had failed to consider was that Tae Bo is freaking hard! i mean, it's an excellent workout and makes me sweat, but that is not the kind of hard i am talking about. i am talking about the exercises and punches and kicks. i can't do all that shit! i was in the weight room destroying my joints while my friends were in dance class. whatever it is that makes people able to keep up with Billy Blanks and Jane Fonda (in her day) i do not have. kim has it. she knew what they were doing and she was punching in the right direction and her feet moved at a pace indistinguishable from the beat of the music. this girl? i was just glad to only almost fall down. i have always avoided group fitness classes exclusively because of the performance factor. my mind has certainly not been changed as a result of last night's performance. but i do think it is good for people to force themselves to do things that they are not good at or have no experience of. keeps us human. every now and then i like to be reminded that in 99.999% of skillful activities, i am a spinning idiot. i feel like a better person because of it. but i think i will still keep the audience to a maximum of one.
posted by shelly at 11/15/2005 06:29:00 PM
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Interestingly, I haven't really had anything to blog about until today either. If I'm not careful, my hits will drop to the point that I will never catch up to you. Also, read the quote of the week on Katie's blog. I think you will appreciate it.
i actually saw that before and i was a little troubled by it. but i know, over the line...
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