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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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August 31, 2005

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Pictures from my walk, 8-29-2005I'm still here, though it's been a crazy week. I took Monday off, slept in, did some housecleaning and some walking, which was quite pleasant. And got caught in a thunderstorm. But hey, I had dry clothes at home, what's the big deal, really?

My evenings have been full of must-do stuff, and I'm looking forward to having it all come to a screaching halt tomorrow. There was our favorite BBQ place, LOW, shutting down, then a going away happy hour for Jill, who got pink-slipped, and tonight I meet up with Sara for dinner, and then run to lower east county to pick up a t-shirt. I'm tired just thinking about it.

One of my goals, which is looking less likely to happen, is getting all of alt.portland moved over into Movable Type (by tomorrow). The existing site is static pages, which is bad for two reasons: 1) I end up doing (or in my case, not doing) my editing via telnet or secure shell, using a text editor like vim. I like vim, but the whole setup is not real condusive to the sort of multitasking I do; and 2) there is all this cross-indexing I could do, and want to do, as well as adding some features like maps and bus-routes and photos, and it's increasingly hard to do that with static pages.

I still have Consume and part of Beer left to do. I was hoping to reintroduce it tomorrow, which... ha ha ha!... just isn't looking so likely. But maybe. I still hang onto hope.

I have no problems coming up with new projects for myself. If anything, I need to reign myself in, focus, and not get obsessed with doing so much. A very short-term goal was to walk to the end of my street, about 2 miles. It would be pleasant. Just over a hour of strolling. It'll happen this weekend, but I wish it would happen sooner.

Posted at August 31, 2005

Comments

I hear ya! School + tae kwon do + play date = crazy mom who is in serious need to "tub time"!

Could you drop me a line? I'm thinking about buying a scooter....

Posted by: neca at August 31, 2005 11:27 AM