Pardon my silence. The last while has been painfully busy. I work until I drug myself to sleep so that I can rise and work again. I'm building new muscles, tearing them again before they have time to heal, and gods, they hurt. Shrove Tuesday I was running to work by four thirty in the morning, but when I was done I was racked and cracked, then ( Read more... )

I'm not one for sacrifice. I am not necessarily at odds with systems built around denial, but I think that a better idea might be a sort of rapturous hedonism. One should deeply appreciate the physical, and if you aren't sufficiently amazed and overwhelmed by it, then it isn't worth doing, or you don't deserve it, as you please. However, I like the ( Read more... )