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Loving just who you are
2005-08-19 - 1:42 p.m.
Not much has actually happened since I last updated you. Tele service
has been pretty light. Even though I've taken my full 1-hour lunch
break I've still been finished with my work very early. I end up
spinning my wheels a bit because once I'm done, I really have nothing
else to do. Other pharmacists have other projects they're working on
all the time that they can work on in their free time. I don't. Not
that I'm complaining. Maybe I'm a bad pharmacist, but I have no issues
with not having to do more work. Unless perhaps there was a raise
involved? I guess I'm not that selfless after all.The other day
I went out and bought a used copy of the fourth Harry Potter book at my
favorite used bookstore. They didn't have a paperback copy available,
which is what I really wanted, but I was anxious to start reading it as
someone is sending a copy of the 6th book my way soon and I've pretty
much forgotten what happened in the 4th and 5th books so I want to
reread them. (Do you ever wonder why I bother reading anything when I
can never remember much about it later?) Anyway, I ended up buying a
used copy of the hardback two days ago. Then yesterday I spotted a new
copy of the paperback at Fred Meyer for less than I payed for the used
hardback. I broke the cardinal rule of shopping! Once you've spent
your money, stop comparing prices--it's likely to cause
heartache.Yesterday I got myself out and went running again. It
had been about two weeks. I'm planning on going again today. I have
this schedule that I downloaded from the internet of workouts that I'm
supposed to do and if I do them, says this website, I will be able to
complete a marathon by the end of November, which is when the Seattle
Marathon is. This schedule just started this week, I think, so I'm not
too far behind yet. I'd better get with it soon though, if I'm going to
do it at all. Yesterday I only ran 3.2 miles because I wanted to take
it easy since it had been so long. I haven't even looked at the
schedule since last weekend, but I'm sure I'm supposed to be going
farther than that. The main problem with this schedule is that it
prescribes specific distances that I'm supposed to run, but I don't have
any measured courses. Should I just find a track and run around in
circles? The shortest distance on this schedule though is about 4
miles...16 times around the track would get awfully boring. Or I
suppose I could run on a treadmill--but that's even more boring than a
track! The Burke-Gilman has mile markers, so maybe I'll start running
out there. It's just a bit more of a drive than I'd
like.Speaking of running, my running buddy Kitten has recently
started working in the OIC (outpatient infusion clinic), which is the
place where people go to have chemo and whatnot when they don't need to
be admitted to the hospital. The OIC is in the same building as the
hospital, but they have all their own stuff over there so they never
need to come over to the main pharmacy area. So basically I never see
Kitten anymore. This makes me a little sad. Plus, I don't know if
she's still planning on running the half-marathon at the end of
September. I still am whether she does or not, I think, though. And
also, I think she talked Lolo into doing it and he's planning on it too.
And as for the Seattle Marathon? That's probably even less likely to
happen with her. I don't know, we'll see. Maybe I won't even do it
either. I won't for sure if I don't get my act together here!Oh,
and speaking of getting my act together, today is Friday, which means
that this morning was my weigh-in. Remember how I talked about needing
to not have any slip-up weeks in order to not qualify for the Athena
division for the half-marathon? Well, I had a slip-up week. Actually,
I'm fairly relieved that the damage isn't worse. It really was a bad
week. The worst part is that having a slip-up week really takes two
weeks out of my weight loss schedule because one week is spent gaining
the weight and then the next is spent re-losing it. Sometimes I think I
know a bit of how an alcoholic or maybe a smoker feels. When I'm
binge-eating I know that I shouldn't and I know I'll regret it later and
I feel bad about it, but I just don't want to stop. Not at that moment
anyway. Why is that? It doesn't make any sense.
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