Rowed 3000 meters this morning, including 1000 in 4:45, which is not very good for most rowers. But it’s good for me, and most rowers are not 5’1". I was going to do 5K, but I got bored, so for variety I finished the last 15 minutes or so (1 mile) on a treadmill, and yes I was actually jogging for all but the warmup and cooldown parts. Conclusion: Having forgotten to pick up some other sports bras while I was home last weekend, I either need to not jog or do some shopping. I don’t bounce much at all (when I say I’m small, I don’t just mean height), but the jogging was just a little uncomfortable.
In other moments of inadequacy, I just read a bunch of other diaries here, which is why there are now 3 people I’ve never spoken to listed in my favorites (in addition to the 3 whose writing convinced me to start these pages). I’m feeling a little short on descriptive adjectives here, but I have concluded I will probably never write with the juice of Miguelito; will never achieve the design sense of Krapsnart (I love the look of her pages); don’t have as interesting a life as Jerseygrrl. (I refuse to say never on that one, though my version of interesting in a good way would of course be totally different than hers.)
But I’m reasonably content most of the time and blazingly happy some of it, current interlude excluded, and I do have a lot of different odd skills (even though I don’t do most of them *well*), so I’m not going to break my heart over whan I can’t do. Though it does provide some inspiration to work on my writing skills and on my Web design, and to keep trying new things.
Next question: how do people manage to write about sex and other very personal stuff in these? I keep thinking my mother (who probably wouldn’t mind that much, really) or my coworkers could read them.
Though I will mention that Jerseygrrl is entirely right about the jump-up-and-pee method of avoiding UTIs.
Oh, and reading other peoples’ diaries also makes it unfortunately clear: compared to those with real problems, I am a whiny bitch. Sorry.
Posted by dichroic at March 14, 2001 05:30 PM