Swim, swim, swim

Good swim drills this morning. Gradually getting more comfortable in the water, and when you're concentrating on form somehow you just don't notice all the laps melting by...

Did finally notice what it is with me and longer swim distances: I tend to work too hard, start to get out of breath, which then triggers a "get to the end so we can rest!" impulse in ye olde bodye, which is of course counter-productive to catching one's breath. ;-p So that'll be something to work on in the future - calming down when I start to feel out of breath, stretching out and slowing down. Form, form, form. Whee.

Otherwise it's going well. The other realization this morning was that if I want to do all the things I'd like to do, it's probably going to mean at least a few days of two workouts a day. Eeck.

Blisters & Pop Music

My last run (Monday?) seems to have given me a small blister on the right foot, on the little pig who had no roast beef. I resisted popping it, preferring that it resolve itself on its own, perhaps into a nice callus, but now I'm not so sure I shouldn't have taken care of it at once. :-/ Ah well. Bodies can be so... difficult at times. ;-)

In other news, I am once again awed at the wonderfulness that is the iPod. I ripped some of my Taiwanese pop music down to it, and while the characters do not show up from Gracenotes on my windows machine, they do show up nicely on the 'Pod. Coolness.

I also have to say that studying pop music for language skills is like studying romance novels for literacy. One gets a lot of vocabulary having to do with love and loss and feelings and what not, but not a lot of practical stuff (unless you plan to live like you're in a soap opera). I mean, when was the last time you heard a pop song address how to get to the restroom?

Lunch Reminder!

Don't forget, lunch tomorrow at 12:30 at Jenny's Asian Fusion here in SW! Hope to see all that can make it over!

Names

Was there some reason why we had to change the name of the Government Accounting Office to the "Government Accountability Office"? Do we really need management buzzwords in an agency name?

(and you'll see on their web site that they simply list themselves as "GAO" and not under the new name - you have to dig to find out that the name changed back in July)

The other attorneys whose work I occasionally review always raise an eyebrow when I tell them about the name change. Stupid buzzword-happy Congress.