D'Izzy Words

Monday: ( The work out did not go well, yah )

I don't understand what exactly happened. I was drinking, eating, I didn't even do my work out as intensively as it could have been before I felt really bad and out of whack. I always start my work out with a one-mile run, and the pace I was going at wasn't very fast or intense. But somehow my body just went into alarm-mode, and it was distressing because it threw my schedule and day off.

Wednesday: I was suppose to work out then (do the every-other-day thing), but after the shit that went down Tuesday I just hunkered in the apartment yesterday and hid from the world, except for online people and on the phone.

Thursday: Yeah! I took the one-mile slowly at first, but when my body didn't go into crash mode within the first half-mile, I continued. I got a new one-mile best! 8 minutes and 3 seconds!

At the end of the strength training (I decided not to do the leg press because the machine's noises would have irritated me, despite my music), I decided to try out the treadmill for the first time ever. I almost slipped and fell. It's hard to find your rhythm on it... But I ended up walking on it for 49mins53secs, usually between 2.0-4.0 miles/hour and just lost in my music and thoughts.

August 5, 2010, Thursday
( Exercise log )

For two hours I was in there, it was interesting seeing people come and go and the different areas they concentrated on. I also took the exercises slow and more breaks between sets as a precaution (from Monday's experience), I also spent more time looking around at equipment. I noticed the free weights ranged from 3lbs to 105lbs or 115lbs. At the least, they were in three digits! A single free weight! I haven't seen anybody use those, and I haven't met a person yet who I think could use those easily... A few guys I've seen in the gym use 25lbs or 40lbs free weights, but I think that's the highest. (Of course this doesn't count what they bench press or the total on the barbell.)

I'm glad I chose to concentrate on strength training with some cardio. Endurance isn't my priority right now. I think the 50-60 minutes walking round trip between the apartment and the public library suffices as my cardio exercise. I think I would collapse if I tried running outside, besides breaking out into hives from my allergies. I admire those who train for marathons, or run as their main exercise, and they do it for more than one mile. :P As for my goal of strength and toning, after two weeks of not visiting the gym I've lost some muscle in my upper body. The 8lbs weights were a tougher today than they were 2 weeks ago, and the torso rotation exercises were a strain to complete (I even did less than my last routine's set and reps.) I may or may not try to squeeze in a work out Saturday before I leave.

I can never remember if it's mandell or mandellk for Kathleen's email address here at Beloit. So whenever I type "Kathleen" in Beloit email search, I always end up wincing at the list of results. I should take that as motivation to remember her address.

Last night I vomited and wasn't feeling the greatest. I expect it's still my body getting used to the cold, the food here, the stress of classes/waking up so early and everything. I didn't go to classes today, but gave my homework and lab notebook to friends so hopefully they remembered to hand it in.

I started my new job yesterday. I was hired as an Office Assistant in the Physical Plant department, and work 9:30-11:30 am Tuesdays and Thursday. I started off learning the filing system which made me incredibly happy. There are some places where I'm extremely disorganized (example: my time management) but others when I get somewhat anal about the organization. Filing and listing are examples of that! I used to write inventories of my books when I was younger, multiples lists under Author's Last Name and Genre. So I was happily filing the completed Work Request sheets (they're grouped by numbers, not letters but I can do both, luckily), when people started calling the office. This is where I got extremely flustered and would sometimes either forget their names - I had to keep track of people's calls - or run constantly to my supervisor asking questions. There was some mishaps where someone a person called for was indeed in the office but I didn't know he was him.

I added my Amazon Wish List link to my profile. I decided it gave people more insight into who I am. As an illustration of my sometimes anal-ness, I have three of them, divided into CD's, Books, and DVDs + miscellaneous. Yay, I love organizing things!

One interesting call was from Yaffa, who requested someone to quickly come over to Chamberlain 2nd with a long pair of bolt cutters. Turned out our Beloit turtle had gotten stuck and they were unaware of how much oxygen he was getting and needed to open his cage to move him. I suppose they lost the key or who has possession of it wasn't in their office.

Physical Plant to the rescue!


Now, what is this bullshit I hear about the Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps intending on picketing Heath Ledger's funeral because he supported homosexuality, as evidenced by his making Brokeback Mountain??!?! I know they already picket funerals of dead soldiers from Iraq (their logic from fallen soldiers in an overseas occupation/war to that showing how God hates America's condoning of homosexuality doesn't make sense to me) but do they ever stop?? I heard they also wanted to picket the funerals of those who were killed in the Virginia Tech shootings, but relinquished their plan when they were bargained over with some radio air time.

Sick fuckers.

I hope when Fred Phelps dies nobody including the media go to his funeral besides his Church. I don't want to validate him as a person with coverage. I think he's extremely disrespectful of people's feelings about death and mourning.

This video of their "Christmas carol" "God Hates the World" is repulsive.

It just makes me sickened to my stomach.