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[arguchik]

READING: Still working on The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I'm 25-33% in and I love it so far. Very well written, and particularly interesting in terms of character development.

WATCHING: Chris got a new Doctor Who DVD from Netflix last night, so we watched the first episode of that (I still need to watch the last 10 minutes or so, because I pooped out and had to go to bed).

PLANNING: I have two cool things going on this weekend. Tomorrow I'm going to the Seattle Aquarium with a friend and her partner, to see the octopus exhibit. Then on Sunday I'm going over to Churchmouse Yarn & Tea on Bainbridge, with some knitterly friends. Churchmouse is going to have a reception to kick off their showcase of customer renditions of Elizabeth Zimmerman's Fair Isle Yoke sweater. I recently completed my own rendition of this pattern, so I'm going to wear that (of course). I'm really looking forward to seeing a bunch of different color combinations.

KNITTING: I'm currently working on a dark green sweater for Chris. I'm about 6" into the body section. I'm knitting it using Elizabeth Zimmerman's seamless, bottom-up percentage system, and I'm planning to do the saddle shoulder yoke. This is my 3rd NaKniSweMoDo sweater (#1 was the Arwen cardigan I posted about last time--4 weeks ago!?--and #2 was the aforementioned Fair Isle Yoke cardigan).

RUNNING: I continue to make my way s-l-o-w-l-y through the Couch-to-5k plan from CoolRunning. It's going OK. I struggle with motivation a LOT, unfortunately, but I'm keeping at it. I just have to get past my motivational "tipping point," which roughly coincides with that point at which my body gets physically addicted to the exercise and it becomes harder to talk myself out of running (i.e. overtraining) than it is to talk myself into running. I'm looking forward to that day. Running is the best anti-depressant I've ever found (the prescription ones do me no good), and I really need that right now.

Comments

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

I read half of The Corrections. I should finish that someday. It hit close to home because I grew up in almost the exact same area where the story takes place. I could read The Life of Emotionally repressed WASPs pretty easily if they lived in Maryland or Connecticut, but in the suburbs of Philadelphia? Terror abounds.

Which DVD? Which Doctor? I just watched some Eccleston today while folding laundry.

Couch to 5K- Hmm. Maybe this is something I should consider.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

I think it's disk 4, the most recent series--so David Tennant. I love Eccleston!!! Were...uh...were you folding your undies while watching him?

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

(after reading Couch to 5K)

I think I might be able to do that.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

If you want to start running, it's a really great plan to get you through the initial stages of getting your legs used to it.

[drjohn.livejournal.com]

Are you at the episode about the library or past it?

I like that one a lot, so far: we also didn't make it to the end coherently.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

YES, the one with the library! Last night we watched the second half of it (it's a two-ep story), and then watched the one after it. So now we're onto disk 5, I guess.

[herazade.livejournal.com]

"Running is the best anti-depressant I've ever found (the prescription ones do me no good)"

Exercise is my golden mood pill. Nothing brings my melancholy under control then doing the gym or a long brisk walk (I hate running, too punishing to the knees but I have done it.)
Science backs us up. I read about a study comparing depression treatments, using only exercise, only drugs, and doing nothing. Exercise topped well above drugs, which barely eeked out doing nothing. I found this pretty disturbing.

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

Whenever you post one of these, I always want to try to pronounce the post title. Before my brain actually tries to assign phonemes, it sounds very emphatic and "stand aside while I kick ass", kinda like a RAWRR only with a slavic tinge with the K in there. My brain keeps the initial impression but sort of falters bouncing around from raw-poker to re-wippikker to rao-packer.

Yay on the running and on the Dr. Who. The kids found a new game where they put their coats on backwards, flip their hood over their face and stagger around repeating "who turned out the lights", and I get shivers. :)