Swim to me

Really good swim workout this morning. Did 25 yard repeats, with about a 15 second break between each one, for almost the entire 25 minutes (one lap of breast stroke, one of backstroke). That kept my heart rate at a reasonable rate, kept me moving, and I didn't feel that I had over-exerted myself for once. Felt good.

Plus there's that increasingly erotic smell of chlorine on the skin afterward. ;)

And the chocolate chip muffin from Sticky Finger as a post-workout snack. Plus Wild Berry Tisane from Teaism. *whistles innocently*

Been practicing that slowing down with my running, too. The last two runs were kept to about 1.5 miles, and I focused on keeping my heart rate lower (and, hence, ran slower than my norm). I've been pushing myself too hard, which then leads to more problems, so I'm backing off some, slowing down, and rebuilding my fitness from the ground up.

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Back at work for the first day this week. A few things to tackle, but the world didn't come to an end because I was out (unlike the last place). 17 unread emails is doable, even if some of them do unwrap into unlikely puzzles to solve.

Two new (and I mean brand-spanking new, like, graduated this past Spring and just found out they passed the bar this fall new) attorneys in the office, so I'm no longer the youngest attorney here. Yay!!!! Not that this will stop the one manager from "expressing [his] regret at my extreme youth and inexperience" (his codewords for, "You'll have to deal with these issues long after I'm gone, sucka!"). *grin*

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Yes, the election sucked, and yes, it's going to be a nasty 4 years, and yes, I'm sure this is what a lot of people felt in the middle of Reagan's terms, but you know, we muddled through then, too. The focus needs to go back to local issues and places. Progressives have let the conservatives set the agendas locally for too long, and that lack of focus on state and local races has hurt us, big time (think redistricting, which is controlled by state legislatures). And I have to agree with todc, we're going to go into a rough time, economically, as the federal government drags us deeper and deeper into debt, so you'd be well advised to get yourself out of debt, especially with stuff that has variable rates, because interest rates are going to be going up. Either lock in those things you have to pay on, or get rid of them entirely and don't add a lot more to it. It's going to be a rough ride, but we'll make it through.

Fall-out

Now comes the fun part for we Federal employees. The President is having a cabinet meeting this morning, at which (or after which) it is expected that he will ask for resignations from various members of the cabinet. So, now we get to see who stays and who goes. I'm betting Rumsfeld stays, Powell goes, and (hopefully!) Ashcroft heads off as well. Past that, I have no idea.

Um, Duh

Go back to being the party of Responsibility, and close that sincerity gap. Duh.

Food?

Dinner, what's that?

I think I had an onion ring, around 6ish or so. Past that, some potato chips and a lot of beer.

And Bob, bless his heart, sent me home, with my blessing.  I coulda pushed, but why do so.  Yet.

Oy.

Ugh.  I guess tomorrow will be my "rest day" for the week from exercise.

Activism

Jeebus, why do I let myself get into these situations?

I'm sitting there at a pitiful fundraiser, all of 8 of us there, if that many, and I'm like, "What advertising did you do?"  None, it seems. No outreach whatsoever.

So guess who it looks like will be the next Admin VP of the group?  Oy.

I can't help it if I think funds should be spent on, say, transcribing notes from a meeting.  Shit like that matters, ya know? If you can't get the word out to prospective members, what good is having the info?  Ugh. I wanna smack people.  They have funds, they should use them.  We should use them.  How frustrating.  So now I have to show up to the next two meetings.  Silly people. Silly Moose.