weekend update
general news: still sickish, but am now PREPARED to fight it, with sudafed, vitamin C chewables, echinacea tea and capsules, and will be getting more cough drops and syrup this afternoon. throat is sore from coughing, but it's not nearly as bad as the primary secondary infection I had when I got here. The primary hit me on 25 December, the secondary some time around 6 Jan?, and now I'm calling this one a tertiary. I'm stopping counting after I get to quaternary -- hoping, of course, it doesn't happen.
yesterday: first Ashley and I did minute on/minute off pieces, one on the erg and one on the treadmill, and the erg ones were death but at the same time it felt good to be back on there making myself pull low numbers. my overall average was probably 1:58 or so... certainly not my best, but acceptable given current conditions (sickitude and laxity of training).
afterwards I went into the city, starting at Baggot St and walking to O'Connell via St. Stephen's Green, where I stopped at T.K. Maxx (ha) and found NEW SHOES. These new shoes are fantastic for the following reasons:
1) They are not of the gaudy "look, I'm American" style of runners
2) They have silver in the shoelaces
3) They are blissfully wide enough to perfectly fit my girthy tarsals (even if it does mean a superfluous inch of shoe in length)
4) They have swords printed on the insole, which makes me think they might actually be specially-formulated FENCING SHOES.
(plus, they're really comfortable.)
O, glee!
Also I found lip balm in the flavo(u)r of chai rose, which smells mostly of the lovely cardamom, aforementioned echinacea and also white tea (you just can't find it for that cheap in the states.), a pick-five-snack-size-cheeses deal of amazingness, and STRAWBERRIES. And they were beautiful strawberries. Also in the meantime, I found Dame St, George St, and discovered Wicklow St which I think I like very much. It has a lot of international restaurants, though none were too suited to a college student's budget. Moreover, I got three new books: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (which I once started reading in the MFA and never got to touch again), The Rule of Four (anticipated to be a workout book), and The Five People You Meet in Heaven (because Mitch Albom is a Brandeis alum, I liked Tuesdays with Morrie, and it was a 3-for-2 deal). Plus I found two of the ingredients for Ashley's tiramisu, which made me feel I'd accomplished something on my day of adventures and finds.
Then I came home, ate too much of Ashley's flat-dinner lasagna and tiramisu, and went to Laure's to watch Shakespeare in Love on TV, and Laure gave me some cake of Breton origin that she'd made. Today I have no appetite.
tonight for dinner I am planning to make: pasta with salmon, broccoli, and potatoes, with pesto. because i have all of these things and they need to be eaten. but before that, Ashley and I shall go lifting. And after dinner is TradSoc! At the moment: a nap, to help my silly sickish body heal.
yesterday: first Ashley and I did minute on/minute off pieces, one on the erg and one on the treadmill, and the erg ones were death but at the same time it felt good to be back on there making myself pull low numbers. my overall average was probably 1:58 or so... certainly not my best, but acceptable given current conditions (sickitude and laxity of training).
afterwards I went into the city, starting at Baggot St and walking to O'Connell via St. Stephen's Green, where I stopped at T.K. Maxx (ha) and found NEW SHOES. These new shoes are fantastic for the following reasons:
1) They are not of the gaudy "look, I'm American" style of runners
2) They have silver in the shoelaces
3) They are blissfully wide enough to perfectly fit my girthy tarsals (even if it does mean a superfluous inch of shoe in length)
4) They have swords printed on the insole, which makes me think they might actually be specially-formulated FENCING SHOES.
(plus, they're really comfortable.)
O, glee!
Also I found lip balm in the flavo(u)r of chai rose, which smells mostly of the lovely cardamom, aforementioned echinacea and also white tea (you just can't find it for that cheap in the states.), a pick-five-snack-size-cheeses deal of amazingness, and STRAWBERRIES. And they were beautiful strawberries. Also in the meantime, I found Dame St, George St, and discovered Wicklow St which I think I like very much. It has a lot of international restaurants, though none were too suited to a college student's budget. Moreover, I got three new books: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (which I once started reading in the MFA and never got to touch again), The Rule of Four (anticipated to be a workout book), and The Five People You Meet in Heaven (because Mitch Albom is a Brandeis alum, I liked Tuesdays with Morrie, and it was a 3-for-2 deal). Plus I found two of the ingredients for Ashley's tiramisu, which made me feel I'd accomplished something on my day of adventures and finds.
Then I came home, ate too much of Ashley's flat-dinner lasagna and tiramisu, and went to Laure's to watch Shakespeare in Love on TV, and Laure gave me some cake of Breton origin that she'd made. Today I have no appetite.
tonight for dinner I am planning to make: pasta with salmon, broccoli, and potatoes, with pesto. because i have all of these things and they need to be eaten. but before that, Ashley and I shall go lifting. And after dinner is TradSoc! At the moment: a nap, to help my silly sickish body heal.