Gym ponderings

I'm thinking, given work and the desire to have a life other than work, self-maintenance, and sleep, it makes sense to explicitly decide I'll go to the gym twice a week, and make it Monday/Thursday, rather than push myself to try for thrice a week, and average about 1.5 times a week. Monday/Thursday has the advantage that if something comes up Monday, I can slip it to Tuesday, and ditto for Thursday/Friday, without messing things up badly.

Of course, this is partly a response to the time and energy taken by physical therapy, which ends a week from Saturday. At that last session, I shall have to ask Apu how often I should be continuing my exercises.

Gym ponderings

I'm thinking, given work and the desire to have a life other than work, self-maintenance, and sleep, it makes sense to explicitly decide I'll go to the gym twice a week, and make it Monday/Thursday, rather than push myself to try for thrice a week, and average about 1.5 times a week. Monday/Thursday has the advantage that if something comes up Monday, I can slip it to Tuesday, and ditto for Thursday/Friday, without messing things up badly.

Of course, this is partly a response to the time and energy taken by physical therapy, which ends a week from Saturday. At that last session, I shall have to ask Apu how often I should be continuing my exercises.

Physical therapy

This morning's physical therapy went well. Apu was pleased with my range of motion, both when he lifted my arm straight up (normal is to reach 180°, which I did, without pain) and when he moved it away from my body (normal is 80-90°, I'm at 80), and none of it hurt. Also, the difference between arriving at 8:25 for an 8:30 appointment, and arriving at 8:33, seems to be the difference between getting to work at 10:15 and at 11:00.

However, this afternoon my back hurts, in a way that feels as though it might be connected to the PT, or at least to that shoulder. I've iced the shoulder, because it might help, done my basic stretches, and taken two ibuprofen. I am not pleased. (If this is my subconscious trying to get out of going to the gym, it's wasted effort, since I was inclined against before the back/shoulder twinges.)

Physical therapy

This morning's physical therapy went well. Apu was pleased with my range of motion, both when he lifted my arm straight up (normal is to reach 180°, which I did, without pain) and when he moved it away from my body (normal is 80-90°, I'm at 80), and none of it hurt. Also, the difference between arriving at 8:25 for an 8:30 appointment, and arriving at 8:33, seems to be the difference between getting to work at 10:15 and at 11:00.

However, this afternoon my back hurts, in a way that feels as though it might be connected to the PT, or at least to that shoulder. I've iced the shoulder, because it might help, done my basic stretches, and taken two ibuprofen. I am not pleased. (If this is my subconscious trying to get out of going to the gym, it's wasted effort, since I was inclined against before the back/shoulder twinges.)

synchronicity, genre

In the midst of interesting discussions of genre, including but not limited to fantasy, on Making Light and on papersky's journal, I just sent a coworker email stating that if we're going to treat "Mythology" as a separate genre from "Folk Tales, Tall Tales, and Fables" in our "Index by Genre," we're going to have to address which side of the line a lot of stories fall on. We can't just pull out the Arachne story as Mythology and leave everything else alone.

It doesn't help, for these purposes, that every reading in these anthologies must be listed exactly once in the index by genre. I don't know whether it helps or hinders that, for these purposes, "poetry," "songs," and "plays" are all being treated as genres, so we don't have to address whether a given play is historical fact, historical fiction, contemporary fact [for a sixth-grade audience in 2006 or after, is Samantha Smith's letter to Andropov history?]/

synchronicity, genre

In the midst of interesting discussions of genre, including but not limited to fantasy, on Making Light and on papersky's journal, I just sent a coworker email stating that if we're going to treat "Mythology" as a separate genre from "Folk Tales, Tall Tales, and Fables" in our "Index by Genre," we're going to have to address which side of the line a lot of stories fall on. We can't just pull out the Arachne story as Mythology and leave everything else alone.

It doesn't help, for these purposes, that every reading in these anthologies must be listed exactly once in the index by genre. I don't know whether it helps or hinders that, for these purposes, "poetry," "songs," and "plays" are all being treated as genres, so we don't have to address whether a given play is historical fact, historical fiction, contemporary fact [for a sixth-grade audience in 2006 or after, is Samantha Smith's letter to Andropov history?]/

Better

Both cattitude and I have been feeling grumpy this evening, so we were screening calls: I didn't want to deal with another pollster, or another attempt to get me to change my telephone service.

I was glad to talk to adrian_turtle, who I've been missing while she's away on business. (Yes, I miss my long-distance sweeties more when they're away from their own homes, and not just because they're less likely to turn up on IM or email--it's that there's comfort to knowing that they're in the places I'm used to visiting them, riding the usual trains, eating at the usual ice cream places, and so on.) I sympathized with her, stuck in the middle of Las Vegas without enough books; she laughed enough that I hope and think I cheered her up as much as she did me.

Better

Both cattitude and I have been feeling grumpy this evening, so we were screening calls: I didn't want to deal with another pollster, or another attempt to get me to change my telephone service.

I was glad to talk to adrian_turtle, who I've been missing while she's away on business. (Yes, I miss my long-distance sweeties more when they're away from their own homes, and not just because they're less likely to turn up on IM or email--it's that there's comfort to knowing that they're in the places I'm used to visiting them, riding the usual trains, eating at the usual ice cream places, and so on.) I sympathized with her, stuck in the middle of Las Vegas without enough books; she laughed enough that I hope and think I cheered her up as much as she did me.

QOTD

You know, you should have majored in something practical, like Mathematics, and I absolutely mean it.—bard_bloom

QOTD

You know, you should have majored in something practical, like Mathematics, and I absolutely mean it.—bard_bloom