Reading: Fitness for Geeks

05May12

“In terms of pursuing personal, optimal health, it’s not selfish… it’s the fit person who has the energy and availability to be charitable, help others, and give more of herself.”

I just started reading Fitness for Geeks. This quote is only from the Preface, but it’s encouraging that a book’s Preface would already be quotable.

Anyhow, I believe this.

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Hello World!

05May12

For a while, I’ve been wanting to blog again. Not really to blog, but more just to have thoughts and the ability to work through them. To transition not away from Twitter, but back toward more long-form writing.

But a lot has changed in the past three years since my last blog post, so I don’t really know the etiquette around that… do I start a new blog? Switch to Tumblr? Go on like nothing happened?

I opened up my WordPress account, read the title “Chronicle Comical”, liked it as well as the greyscale with hot pink links, and realized I’m still the same person so I’m gonna just roll with it.

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More to life.

16Aug09

Later this week I’m starting a class at one of the five churches I can’t commit to. It’ll be a seven dollar investment in “finding and feeding what my soul is hungry for”.

One of the reasons I’m so non-committal to everything is the fact that I’m so discontent with my life. I’ll never be ready to commit to anything until I’m content with the circumstances surrounding it.

There is more to life than I know. And I don’t know how to experience it. But I know it’s there, so I get really frustrated with my inability to grasp on to it.

So needless to say, I have high expectations for this class. I hope it’s not lame.

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Six months later…

08Jul09

Six months later, I blog again.

I don’t know what I’ll write about yet. But I should write. I stopped writing because Twitter became the outlet of my subconscious in the more vague manner that I sometimes prefer. And I had a need for real life friend-communication; not introspective self-communication.

Six months ago, I wrote about discontentment. Six months later, I don’t think I’m any less discontent. That probably isn’t a good thing.

Nothing has changed in six months. I’m not a better person; I’m probably a worse person.

All I’ve done the past six months is work. I hide under the guise that “I have to”, that “it will all pay off sooner or later”, that “it’s what I’m supposed to be doing with my life”, that “I love it”, etc. And that all might be true to an extent, but the real truth is that I don’t know how to have balance. I can’t remember what it is to have balance. I don’t have any conception of what balance means and what life should really be like. I don’t know how to have a best friend, how to engage in social/non-intellectual conversation.

For the past six years, I’ve focused only on the things in my life which I can control and that directly influence my professional and intellectual goals. Like absorbing information. Like non-fiction. And in doing so, I’ve also eliminated things from my life that contribute to or affect emotion and things I can’t control. Like music. Like relationships with people.

It’s totally screwed up. I want it all to change, but I have no idea where to begin.

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Meet some of my co-workers.

23Jan09

Normally I hate these things. So when a co-worker created this, I figured I’d watch it for it’s own sake, but I definitely wouldn’t laugh. But then when I did watch it, I did laugh. So then I figured I’d share it with you all.

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