Comments | byelka58: Promises to keep.

byelka58

Promises to keep.

Apr 22, 2007 19:30

Today I'm going to talk about a little experiment I've been running, or I suppose you could say walking. In fact, I'm finding it impossible not to say that even though I know it sucks (you'll see). But I've already lost four hours in the process of composing this minor entry, so I'm going to have to move past the word play if I want to beat the ( Read more... )

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byelka58 April 23 2007, 11:40:27 UTC

Thanks! Numbers are fun.

la_zumo April 23 2007, 01:00:23 UTC

Let me get the Whaaaaaambulance!

Seriously though. Good job. Way better than my Lenten obligation.

byelka58 April 23 2007, 11:42:20 UTC

PFff, I knew if I tried to give anything up it would be over on Day 5. It's way easier to do something once a day than it is to constantly not do something.

vislius April 23 2007, 04:03:58 UTC

To add to the string of congratulations, yea for walking!

You could come up to Toronto and take part in my nearly daily 3 mile round trip walk to and from school, which is quite lovely (although, today, I made this trek in heels, which I do not not recommend). There are black squirrels, flyers featuring George Bush's head for rummage sales to raise funds for rape crisis centers, and Mounties. Okay, I'm lying about the Mounties, but everything else is real. Honest.

byelka58 April 23 2007, 11:43:39 UTC

Are you saying... Mounties aren't real? Then what's a Canada for, vislius? What's a Canada for?

I agree that I should come up to Toronto, however. Surely the opportunity will present itself someday.

vislius April 23 2007, 13:07:05 UTC

Mounties are merely a conspiracy of the Canadian imagination, the face Canada puts on for the rest of the world -- formally dressed, horse riding do-gooders. But to speak more honestly, Mounties are real, but one rarely sees them in Ontario except at parades because the province has its own police force.

As for what Canada's for, I haven't quite figured that out, although it does present quite an interesting specimen of what the US might have been like had it not decided to declare its independence.

gabbiana April 23 2007, 08:57:54 UTC

Yay for walking! Also, you are officially more active than 80% of America, probably ( ... )

byelka58 April 23 2007, 11:49:12 UTC

Oh, child, it's not a song. It's from a poem that you know perfectly well, because everyone does. Med school has broken your brain. (The footnote is attached to a different quotation altogether; that's Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' "Whole Lot of [Lotta?] Walking to Do." Very peppy.)

Yeah, it's difficult to succeed at finding a place to walk where no one else is walking, yet there are bystanders enough to save my butt. We might go so far as to call it "unlikely." But then, so is being killed while exercising, one would think.

chocolatebanana April 23 2007, 11:39:42 UTC

Congrats! You should move to Decatur and join my gym! Bethany goes there, too. It's the cool people place. Although I haven't actually run into her there yet...