Monday, August 16, 2004

   And so it begins....
I've taken Shinmaru up on his challenge to see who can post for the most consecutive days. The terms of this are still a bit gray, but the posts have to be of a decent length and worth reading, not just random space filling crap.

I feel like I've already lost. :p

So, having missed posting yesterday, today is Day #1 on the count of The Most Consecutive Days of Posting Thing.

I seem to have myself trained, oddly enough, to wake up somewhere between 12 o'clock and 12:30. I only wake up before then to shut off my alarm, which I usually set to 6-7 o'clock. Then, occasionally, somebody will wake me up for one reason or another and I'll wind up getting out of bed at 11-something.

While I'm glad that I won't sleep past the hour of 12, I don't like missing all of those hours in the morning. I find that going to the gym helped, as I was getting up earlier, and the exercise more than woke me up. My dad has been sick lately, though, and my mom hasn't been getting up early enough to take me.

It's partially my fault, as well. If I were to actually get up, shut off my alarm, and not go back to bed, then I could go and wake one or both of them up. Then we could go to the gym. But, alas, I've never had much luck with alarm clocks. At first, when I actually used the alarm, it would never wake me up. Then, when I set the volume on the radio all the way up and set the radio as the alarm, that woke me up. Unfortunately, I'd just turn off the music and roll over in bed. So I, in my infinite wisdom, put the alarm clock across the room, so I would have to get up, walk over, and turn it off or else wake the whole household.

But I, ever the evolving sleep-monger, have developed a sort of half-sleep doze that allows me to shuffle over to the clock, disable it, and shuffle back to bed without ever fully waking up. Curse me and my body's evolutionary perfection.

On a somewhat related note, I weighed myself today.


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I've lost 9.5 pounds since I started this whole carb-watching exercising-more lifestyle change. I was most surprised, and very happy. ^_^

It's sort of funny, because last night I pigged out on lasagna and garlic bread at my grandparents' house. I had cake and ice cream, even, since it was a birthday party. :D

It was not some huge lapse in my thinking, however. I set aside one day a week for me to eat quasi-regularly. I found that the healthier eating was easier when you have one day of splurging to look forward to. The sudden spike in calories must have gotten my metabolism going, I guess, and today, the day after, I'm lighter than ever. =P

I read Henry James's The Turn of the Screw last night. It's one of the stories/books I have to read before school starts. For a remarkably well-written piece of literature, it's also seems amazingly long-winded. Hardly anything actually happens in the story, with large sums of words in place to describe, well, what seemed like nothing at all. O_o

I'm sure my class is going have a heck of a time discussing the story when the school year rolls around. >_>

So, two down and a bunch more to go. I've started reading Flag of Our Fathers, which doesn't give me a headache to read like Turn of the Screw did. It's written in a somewhat easy-going manner, which makes it actually enjoyable to read. Hey, wow. Nice.

It's raining out, but it's a nice cool rain, so I might go out for a walk later. I need to get to the library today and turn in some second form of identification, like a copy of my birth certificate or something. As soon as that gets done, the paperwork will be processed and I'll officially be hired. w00t!

And now I'll leave you with an amusing insult, courtesy of the Mimbrate knight, Mandorallen of Vo Ebor.

"My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?"
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