You talkin' 'bout ME?!?

[ed_rex]

"You are so strong!"

I came down with a cold last weekend, a nasty throat infection that left me sore and raspy and without much energy. Too weak to enjoy the increasingly clement whether that's been creeping up on Ottawa this week - until today.

Throat still a little sore today, I nevertheless felt well enough this afternoon to head for the

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[miyyu]

I see both, sometimes simultaneously, and it's still something I wrestle with

Hard to shake first (self) impressions

[ed_rex]

Even when I smoked I was arguably more active than the average person of my age, what with the cycling for transportation, but probably only just.

My proprioception has always been poor.

Now that I've looked up that rather lovely new word, I can say that mine was never that bad, just that I never pushed it very hard to improve.

But it's an odd thing, that sense of self.

It certainly is. We're not birds, but certainly we imprint certain assumptions about ourselves over a pretty short period of time during our childhoods, and it becomes a real bugger to modify it.