Snowy McSnowmanpants
SO. Spent the majority of last night doing not what I was supposed to be doing. Really, I needed to get work done before this weekend. But, instead, I did my laundry, took out the trash, and FINALLY got back to the gym. So I wasn't unproductive, just not at all in the business sense.
The gym was great though. Apparently after all these months, I'm still in really good shape. I wasn't winded, no strain or pain, and I had no problem executing the very same workout at the same intensity that I'd been doing months ago. I did, however, get pretty dizzy a few times - which is one of the main reasons I stopped going. I was really afraid of falling off a machine and hurting myself (which did almost happen once). But overall, I did well. I think my body was very happy to be moving again.
But then... oh, then. I started reading updates about the fires in CA, because they're a little too close to some of my friends, and I was on google maps. Welllll we can see where this is going... I ended up in a tiny town in Alberta Canada, 375 miles south of Yellowknife (one of the closest towns to it). Yellowknife's website had photos of auroras. So, i clicked. Then I looked up auroras. That led me to Svalbard. From Svalbard (and many aerial videos, webcam [they have live webcams in Longyearbyen!] photos, and news) I ended up looking at the homepage for UNIS, and reading the current yearbook for the students in the program. I mean, this is what happens. One thing leads to another and I end up obsessively captivated by some wild thing (so often, it's remote arctic port towns. Funny). I read about and looked at pictures of a man's trip, as a tourist, to the north pole. Because, well, once you're in Spitzbergen, you're almost there! It was just so cool to see. They're heading quickly into the 6-month night, including two months of civil polar night - absolute darkness. So cool.
I could go on, but I won't. At any rate, this is what I do to myself. I know I have to get things done, and yet I get so entrenched in some crazy thing that I just go into pure infoseek mode. So, at a little past 1am, I finally just shut the damn computer and forced myself to go to bed. I dreamed all night of grey twilight, the sound of glacial movement, the eerie polar clouds, and the crushing ice of a frozen fjord. And what did I wake up to?
Freezing fog and the first frost.
:)
The gym was great though. Apparently after all these months, I'm still in really good shape. I wasn't winded, no strain or pain, and I had no problem executing the very same workout at the same intensity that I'd been doing months ago. I did, however, get pretty dizzy a few times - which is one of the main reasons I stopped going. I was really afraid of falling off a machine and hurting myself (which did almost happen once). But overall, I did well. I think my body was very happy to be moving again.
But then... oh, then. I started reading updates about the fires in CA, because they're a little too close to some of my friends, and I was on google maps. Welllll we can see where this is going... I ended up in a tiny town in Alberta Canada, 375 miles south of Yellowknife (one of the closest towns to it). Yellowknife's website had photos of auroras. So, i clicked. Then I looked up auroras. That led me to Svalbard. From Svalbard (and many aerial videos, webcam [they have live webcams in Longyearbyen!] photos, and news) I ended up looking at the homepage for UNIS, and reading the current yearbook for the students in the program. I mean, this is what happens. One thing leads to another and I end up obsessively captivated by some wild thing (so often, it's remote arctic port towns. Funny). I read about and looked at pictures of a man's trip, as a tourist, to the north pole. Because, well, once you're in Spitzbergen, you're almost there! It was just so cool to see. They're heading quickly into the 6-month night, including two months of civil polar night - absolute darkness. So cool.
I could go on, but I won't. At any rate, this is what I do to myself. I know I have to get things done, and yet I get so entrenched in some crazy thing that I just go into pure infoseek mode. So, at a little past 1am, I finally just shut the damn computer and forced myself to go to bed. I dreamed all night of grey twilight, the sound of glacial movement, the eerie polar clouds, and the crushing ice of a frozen fjord. And what did I wake up to?
Freezing fog and the first frost.
:)