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I have been so non-fannish lately, it's very sad. (Well, not sad, exactly, I just miss being fannish.) I watch my shows (I'm down to Bones and Supernatural, though I will get caught up on BSG eventually -- sooner rather than later, because there's a lot of fic I'd like to read -- and I still intend to give Dresden Files a chance), read my books (one of my goals this spring is to read a huge chunk of the To Read piles in order to see what I can get rid of before I move), and spaz about school.

I still don't know where I'm going because the decision is hard to make. I know where I'd like to go based on social life/roommate situation, I know where I'd like to go based on where I want to practice after I'm done, I know where I want to go based on degree opportunities, and I know where I want to go based on simple prestige of the school -- unfortunately, most of those things don't apply to the same place.

I've been tearing through books and Netflix movies, though, and I'm excited about Wiscon in May. I really like the story I have started for Remix/Redux, and I'm less fond of the story for Femslash 07, but I still like the idea behind it. So there is a little bit of fannish activity occuring, not much.

Part of it is after some things changed in my personal life, I lost my Buffy watching partner, and have just kind of slumped in fandom since then. I'm not sure why, it's not like she provided a huge outlet for fannish thoughts. I guess watching it with someone who hadn't seen it before just sparked new happiness in me. I'll get it back.

My workouts continue to get better. Today was particularly good, both with cardio and with weight lifting. I'm especially pleased to have upped my bench press another five pounds, bringing me to ninety pounds overall. That's just ten pounds away from my first goal. I think by mid-March, at the latest, I'll be there.

Current Mood: blah

Mom isn't doing so well. I don't really want to talk about it. Thank you all for your support.

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( slight Supernatural spoiler for 2.01 )

Maybe I should stay away from icons for awhile.

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Added five pounds to my bench weight and ten pounds each to inner and outer thighs. I'm still no where near what I used to lift in high school, especially on the bench, but I'm getting there.

Current Mood: thirsty

Just over an hour until I get to leave. I've only clocked a little overtime, but it's still been a long week. I'm glad tomorrow is Friday; it feels like the end of the week today, and tomorrow may drag because of it.

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Saturday my youngest sister, K., and I are going to Columbia to see some bands, one local out of St. Louis, one local to Columbia, and two others. I don't recognize any of them, but she put together a mix CD for me, and I'll try to listen to it tonight and tomorrow. I like Columbia, and I think I may suggest we go up earlier (doors open at 6:30) to do a little book shopping and just walk around near campus. I love that area.

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( health talk )

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The getting rid of things has slowed. I need to organize the last two bookshelves and then start in purging something other than books. I also need to make more time to write and edit. I also need to find some more freelance work. I also need to practice my bass guitar more.

Current Mood: thirsty

Oh, look, it is Wednesday, television night one, and I finally have the opportunity to read my flist and post. Good times.

Kickboxing did not kick my ass last night, even though I feared it would be worse than ever because I missed last week. There weren't many people in class, so we each had our own bag, and I got a lot of work in. Apparently I continue to have perfect form on my back kicks (HOW? I HAVE NO BALANCE) and I was given good advice on how to improve my jabs and my side kicks. I wish kickboxing was more than once a week.

So it's admin appreciation day (or week or something). They bought me lunch (shrimp and ribs, yummy), and gave me flowers, chocolate, and a giftcard to the local gourmet store, which is wonderful and dangerous all at once. The chocolate I have has Van Gogh engraved on it, as well as pieces in the form of an artist's pallete. Beautiful chocolate, and delicious. (Also, the latter have caramel inside, and chocolate and caramel together is my weakness. Yummy.)

Though there is no way I'll be doing this job for the rest of my life (really, it's mostly because I can't live here for the rest of my life), there are times when I love my job. Being ass deep in scheduling and estimates and disasters to solve is even better than the flowers and chocolates and gift cards. I knew this, but I learn it again all the time these days: I thrive on chaos and problems and fast-paced work. I miss having deadlines and three jobs and full time school. I think I need to look for a second job just so I have something else to do, and so my free time will be more structred (and I'll have less of it).

I love Bones so much. Tonight's show in particular is making me happy, and making me absolutely adore the character of Angela. This has been building for awhile, too, just like my love for the show, but she is amazing and makes me happy. I can't wait to own this show on DVD. It, Supernatural, season two of Lost, and Battlestar Galactica, along with the seasons of Angel I'm missing (everything except one and four), plus Roseanne, more Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, That 70s Show--I have a lot of tv on dvd to purchase. It's a good thing one of my sister's gets a discount on such things.

I didn't know Bones was based on a real person/novels about and/or by said person--okay, obviously I still don't know much about that part, but I'm intrigued. I want the books.

Oh, man, tonight is Lost's clip show summary thing, isn't it? Boring. I am going to go shower instead. Evenings just aren't long enough (despite what I said earlier about working better when I have less free time). I need to head to bed within the next hour or so, because I want to try to get to the gym in the morning. If I don't, it won't be the end of the world, I'll go after work, because I've been taking more time anyway. However, I would like to do some laps (I was going to go today, but I was too tired), and open swim is only in the mornings, I think. I might go in the morning and after work, because even if I swim, I want to do upper body work tomorrow with the free weights. Good grief, what have I become? Working out twice in one day? Even just thinking about it? Plus hours at a time instead of forty-five minutes? This new me is strange. Of course, I'm not certain where my swimsuit is currently located, I haven't used it since the Florida holiday, and I packed it away after.

Okay, shower done, no swimming in the a.m. because I still have no idea where the suit is located, and I was able to do some editing on Book One, even though I didn't get as far as I wanted.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Oingo Boingo - Mary

Kickboxing kickboxed my ass.

I'm ready to crawl into bed. I can't, because I'm trying to finish a book review, but I wish, I wish, I wish. Even BSG isn't enough to make me want to stay awake (though this two part season finale is enough to make me glad I am, though I'd rather be curled up in bed watching it). I actually had to collapse in the locker room after before I could gather my things and head upstairs to leave. I wasn't the only one, though. We had a different instructor tonight and she was tough. Still good, and I had already planned to take off tomorrow from anything serious. I'll be lucky if I can haul glass in the morning; here's hoping there aren't any huge orders being picked up.

New trainers were comfortable even though they need to be broken in just a touch more. New workout clothes are super comfortable, cool, and loose, and they allowed a wide range of movement.

Tonight's kickboxing was a lot more kick and a lot less boxing, to my chagrin. She didn't even run any punches at the bag, just kicks (front, side, crescent, reverse crescent, and jump) which is fun, but I wanted to hit the bag, damn it. It's why I started in the class at all. However, after, in the locker room, someone mentioned there is still a boxing place downtown, so maybe I will check it out after I get back from Wiscon (which will be right after this class ends).

Also, three new dance classes will be offered this summer, including Latin. If it's a partners not required class, I am so there. Otherwise I'll be in hip hop, which I took at university, too, and loved. Plus more kickboxing if they offer it. Plus lifting. Plus something to build my endurance so I don't feel like this after every kickboxing class. I'm strong, but I wouldn't last three rounds in the ring.

Must finish book review, but am exhausted.

Current Mood: exhausted

nikitangel makes me laugh with her comments about Ana-Lucia, and THEN SHE MAKES ICONS FROM MY FAVORITE COMMENTS!

Hee!

Also, this Kane fellow's music isn't half bad.

Also part two, upped my weight on the bench again, by five whole pounds. Woo. Which means I'm up to a wopping 15 in addition to the bar, which is weak, man, but each week it keeps going up, so that's a plus. Slow and steady.

I really wish kickboxing was more than once a week. I want to hit the bag again.

Current Mood: giddy

Oh, man, I need to up my protein intake, I can already tell. Must eat more protein. I don't cook, at all, I hate to do so, which makes this request a little weird, but what are your favorite ways/recipes to get more protein in your diet?

(Okay, I can already tell there will be pervy answers to this. Perverts!)

I crave chicken right now.

Also, I love Lost and Delirious. I'm watching it a second time before I send it back to Netflix, but oh, so much love. I wish

thestalkycop was here to watch this with me, or better yet I wish we were someplace warm, with a pool, and lots of ciggies, and writing discussion and writing. So pretty much the Florida holiday all over again, except I prefer Hawaii and California to Florida, personally.

Current Mood: need protein

Why didn't I know Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events was such a beautiful movie? I've just bumped the books closer to the top of my to buy list; I read the first five or six (maybe even seven or eight) when I worked at the bookstore, and I really enjoyed them, I just never got around to purchasing them.

Oh, Netflix, sometimes I love you.

I'm really behind on fic reading (and writing), so if you've written anything in the past week or so, I'd love a link to it. I'm going to try to get caught up Friday night, but you know how that goes.

I think I'm going to have to change gyms. I go a whole year without hardly any feedback (which isn't a bad thing, I am the Antisocial Woman at the gym), and then in the past three visits, three different workers have told me three different ways to do the squat machine. Today someone started to tell me another and I blew up, told her to go back to the others, come to a consensus, and until then to leave me alone, because if they didn't know how to do it and teach it, how the hell were the rest of us supposed to use the machine properly? (I think I just became the Antisocial Bitch, but you know, I'm paying them money, they should be able to all explain a machine the same way.) (Also, I hate the squat machine, because it is set up to have your arms out in front of you, which is NOT WHERE THEY GO! I really miss squatting freestyle, with the bar behind my head and having to work to keep my balance and all those things.)

This desire to change gyms has been building for a few weeks now, because all year I've missed having an actual full weight room (I have a bench and free weights at home, but I miss a full weight room), better music, actual classes, and, you know, trainers who know what they're doing. Plus I was always conflicted about Curves anyway, because of some of the things the owners support.

My year contract is up this month, so I think I'm switching. Plus I did some research earlier today, and the local health center is actually quite a bit cheaper than Curves (over $100 cheaper if I do a monthly payment and even more than that if I pay for a year's membership all at once). Their classes cost extra, but not a lot extra, and I wouldn't have to do classes. Plus, a pool. And a weight room.

I was going to try to hold off until after Wiscon, because most of my extra money is going into savings for it, which I don't want to touch. However, I don't think I can make it another couple of months. When I've been there longer than everyone who works there, and I've been a member a year, something's wrong.

The rest of the night was pretty good, and now it's time for bed.