Archive for October, 2005
October 31, 2005 at 1:12 am · Filed under I am feeling...
I’ve been achy lately. Sensitive and tender. Knee pains, back pains, feet pains. Maybe it’s just the cold whether stiffening my bones or maybe I am getting weaker and unfit. Unfit for what? Standing. Being upright, using my body. It seems so sad. I just got back from a show and the 4 hours on my feet has made my back hurt so much. Why? Not long ago I could stand for 8, 10, 14 hours at a time.
I blame the computer, yes you under my fingertips. Part of it is my fault in that I choose to entertain myself by sitting here finger surfing. The other part is how this was designed. Not just the computer but this scenario. I am being trained to do my work from here and I want to break loose from that. I want to work standing, walking, pacing, dancing.
New goal: getting away from my perch on this chair. I am not in a cage and I am not strapped down. Why do I act like I am? This is not about exercise. This is not about me going to the gym and breaking out a sweat or alloting 45 minutes a day to move fast. This is about not forgetting the strength of a human body and what it is capable of. Not losing that because it is the greatest thing you will have in your lifetime.
October 28, 2005 at 2:40 pm · Filed under I am feeling...
OK so imagine a larger sized sack like this:
Now imagine 5 angry, let’s say teenage boys cause they can be pretty angry, 5 angry teenage boys wearing boots like these crazy pirate ones:
Now picture that I am in the sack and they are kicking and kicking it.
I feel like that is what has happened to me maybe, 4 days ago and I am recovering. I went to yoga yesterday after a week break because I was “busy” (ie. doing a poor job at time management). I think it was the reverse plank. It is one of those sneaky poses that does not feel too hard while you are in it. But the next day…
The ache was probably doubled from some weird position in my sleep last night (like curling into a small ball to shield myself from bullets). It’s a notable, interesting ache as it resides completely on my entire backside, but no pain in front.
Anyway, I wish I had more interesting things to say right now. I went to a really good show last night. I’ll be going to another one on Sunday. Then 9 days till Singapore (eek!)
October 28, 2005 at 9:38 am · Filed under Dreams
It’s close to Halloween so at nighttime you hear random firecrackers being set off. Someone was having a field day with them last night. In my dream I was in my apartment and I could hear gun shots. I was doing something when two gun shots were fired into my apartment (though it was not really my apartment). It was freaky.
So I hate guns. They scare me. Not so much because they are a weapon that could kill me. More so because they remind me of the fear or hatred or insanity that possesses people to carry them.
I hope I never experience bullets flying through my home. I am saddened to think of all the people who have to.
October 27, 2005 at 10:17 am · Filed under Evil Things
Wired News: How to Fight Those Surging Splogs
Just evil. Why? Does it even work?! That’s what I want to know.
October 26, 2005 at 7:49 pm · Filed under Random Thoughts
I keep forgetting what I was going to write about…ah yes. Poster children. My friend Eric (insert web link here) pointed out to me today that we are still the poster children for the UofR engineering faculty. I will let you find that yourself as I am not in a rush to point you towards my 5 foot long arm, horrible hair and a head in ricci proportions. Thanks for the heads up Eric!
I told another friend about the site and he told me that he is a CS poster child. Ahhaha. So it got me thinking about poster children. About unsuspecting people who get their pictures taken without knowing where those pictures might someday end up (…no not those kinds of pictures). Like those boys in my post below from the 21st. I think we all have some of those pictures. I just want to know where mine all are.
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