I just have to say, before I do anything else, that this is my new favorite song. My gym instructor played it one day - quite out of character for him - and it's friggin' gorgeous. Yes at first I thought it was a cover of Chris Isaak but whatever. It's still gorgeous.
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1) Work! It's my last week and I'm super bored. Ami's so competent and excited to do everything that I've basically had her do all of my work. It's fantastic! But it also means that I have nothing to do but stare at the wall for a whole day. I definitely have to find something to do during the day tomorrow, because otherwise I will go nuts with ( Read more... )

I guess it's time for my monthly update? Jeez.

1) Fitness! I've been sticking with crossfit, and it's totally paying off. Well, at least I think it has, and that's all that matters. After a month of going three times a week, my measurements have stayed the same, but I definitely feel more defined in some places, and I'm certainly being more ( Read more... )

A brief update on my previous post to say: the doctor got the consultation on my CT scan, and apparently it didn't show anything. I still think it's likely to be otosclerosis, because I haven't had any trauma to my ears otherwise, and the other options for what's going on have pretty obvious side-effects. I haven't been sick, don't have allergies, ( Read more... )

So my medical affliction remains mysterious. After waiting for the CT scanner at my hospital to be returned from maintenance, I got the scan in about two minutes flat and then had to wait for a whole hour before my appointment with the doctor. She spend 20 minutes looking at the CT scan of my ear and then called me in to say that she couldn't ( Read more... )

The VS Arashi Workout


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Celebrating Christmas so far away from home is weird for anyone, but celebrating it in China is completely different altogether. There'll be shops with Christmas decorations up, the occasional butchered Christmas song playing at the supermarket, and even the fruit shop gets into it with oranges wrapped in little Christmas boxes, but the only thing ( Read more... )

So just because I said I was updating my LJ on everything ever clearly didn't mean that I was going to continue doing so... I did think about it, though! After having devoted so much of my online life to health and fitness as well, I'm weaning myself off of that stuff by going back to reading LJ all the time and keeping up with people rather than ( Read more... )

1. I got sick this week on Wednesday. This is the second time in two weeks I've gotten a cold and it's just really not fun at all. I think it's the air conditioning at work; what really sucks is that the people at the far end of the room don't get the air con, but it hits me right in the back of the neck. So I'm blaming the air con ( Read more... )

So today I feel like crap. My legs are killing me, but most importantly I have a jaw ache and I'm pretty sure my neck should not be as tender as it is. On Sunday I was pretty convinced I had tonsillitis, too, but that didn't eventuate. This is, of course, not because I've been eating badly or not getting enough exercise, but because I was out ( Read more... )