I went running last night for the first time since I started working full-time in mid-October. For a solid two months (or so), I was in the habit of running every night before bed. Having never been a jogger, I started slow and short: my route was only a half mile, and I could barely go that distance running the entire way. Eventually, my stamina increased and I was able to go a full mile without stopping or slowing down. Since I started working, however, I'd come home too tired and too behind on all my useless pop culture obsessions (who sent me messages on Facebook? What did I miss on Conan last night?!) to go running at night, not to mention that I feel silly for and at the same time obligated to shower right before bed and immediately after I wake up in the morning. Being that I've, for the lack of a better term, "gotten into the grove" of working a full-time schedule and have also eaten way too much in the last few weeks,it has been clear that I have either the option to get (relatively) fat again or try and stay in shape. It was a tough run last night--for some reason my right knee was bugging me--but I made it the entire way without much of a problem. Will I continue to pursue a nightly running habit or will I continue to eat ice cream and grow, grow, grow? Stay tuned!
My pal flunkmaster has a new website here so please check it out and be amazed!
On Sunday I watched the first of my 7 new Herzog DVDs, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and it was terrific; I can't wait to watch the rest of his films. He turned the story from the aforementioned documentary into a feature film called Rescue Dawn. Has anyone seen it? I hear it's good. I'm in the middle of Lessons of Darkness right now and so far it's a fascinating nightmare.