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clevermanka) wrote2012-04-12 10:12 am
clevermanka) wrote2012-04-12 10:12 am
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Irrational fear
People like this make me think I should revise my standard "insert earbuds and ignore humanity" approach to air travel.
Yesterday I killed a spider that was crawling up the wall of my workstation. Just thinking about it creeps me out, now. It took everything I had to actually kill it, and once the thing was dead, I didn't have sufficient will to clean the carcass off my mouse (yes, I used my mouse to smash it--what?). I was just spent. Our student assistant was (luckily for me) still in, and she took care of it for me. Bless her heart. God. Spiders. shudder
I just discovered another big selling point for the Avengers movie. Check out Tony Stark's new car, kids:
This movie was made specifically for me. We've got fights, explosions, and effects, what looks to be a kickass female fighter, some thinly-veiled homoerotic subtext with Robert Downey, Jr. (a selling point all on his own), and now, this car. I mean come on. It's like they had a fucking checklist or something. Chernobyl Red Movie Kinks: Let Me Show You Them.
One thing: if Joss Whedon kills either of my favorite characters, I will hunt him down and kick the motherfucking shit out of him I am not even kidding. There is precedent for Captain America dying you guys, and I might be maybe seriously a little worried about this.
Crossfit update!
I had my second Elements class last night and wow. That was educational. We started out doing lunges with a medicine ball held overhead and I could not do a single damn lunge on my left side. I could get down, but no way was I getting back up. I tried three times and Just No Way. I went over to one of the trainer guys and explained that I'd been having pain/weakness issues in my left hip for several months and could he suggest anything to help. He took me aside and spent forty minutes working with me--just me--on my squats. Which, apparently, I have been doing wrong for, oh, my entire life. I've always known that I had weak and tight hip adductors, but they're worse than I ever believed. We worked and worked and worked on me pressing my knees out as I squatted and stood, squatted and stood, squatted and stood for probably close to fifty squats over half an hour. Once he showed me what I was doing wrong and how to correct for it, it made so much sense! Doesn't make it easy to fix, but at least I know how. He said he'd be shocked if this didn't completely cure the bursitis/hip pain I've been dealing with since, what? June?
He was very impressed with my shoulder mobility, and I didn't get to do a damn thing with my shoulders besides practice my push press with a PVC pipe like three measly times because he said I was a natural at it and we went back to working on my squat. Hmph.
Yesterday I killed a spider that was crawling up the wall of my workstation. Just thinking about it creeps me out, now. It took everything I had to actually kill it, and once the thing was dead, I didn't have sufficient will to clean the carcass off my mouse (yes, I used my mouse to smash it--what?). I was just spent. Our student assistant was (luckily for me) still in, and she took care of it for me. Bless her heart. God. Spiders. shudder
I just discovered another big selling point for the Avengers movie. Check out Tony Stark's new car, kids:
This movie was made specifically for me. We've got fights, explosions, and effects, what looks to be a kickass female fighter, some thinly-veiled homoerotic subtext with Robert Downey, Jr. (a selling point all on his own), and now, this car. I mean come on. It's like they had a fucking checklist or something. Chernobyl Red Movie Kinks: Let Me Show You Them.
One thing: if Joss Whedon kills either of my favorite characters, I will hunt him down and kick the motherfucking shit out of him I am not even kidding. There is precedent for Captain America dying you guys, and I might be maybe seriously a little worried about this.
Crossfit update!
I had my second Elements class last night and wow. That was educational. We started out doing lunges with a medicine ball held overhead and I could not do a single damn lunge on my left side. I could get down, but no way was I getting back up. I tried three times and Just No Way. I went over to one of the trainer guys and explained that I'd been having pain/weakness issues in my left hip for several months and could he suggest anything to help. He took me aside and spent forty minutes working with me--just me--on my squats. Which, apparently, I have been doing wrong for, oh, my entire life. I've always known that I had weak and tight hip adductors, but they're worse than I ever believed. We worked and worked and worked on me pressing my knees out as I squatted and stood, squatted and stood, squatted and stood for probably close to fifty squats over half an hour. Once he showed me what I was doing wrong and how to correct for it, it made so much sense! Doesn't make it easy to fix, but at least I know how. He said he'd be shocked if this didn't completely cure the bursitis/hip pain I've been dealing with since, what? June?
He was very impressed with my shoulder mobility, and I didn't get to do a damn thing with my shoulders besides practice my push press with a PVC pipe like three measly times because he said I was a natural at it and we went back to working on my squat. Hmph.