dashing through the slow

I love that line. "You are what you eat" is such an old cliche but that twist on the end gives it a whole different intent.

Eating well is more difficult by the day. Convenience foods are SO convenient but they're so bad for you. I'm skeptical enough to think most of the "natural" and even the "organic" products really aren't much different. Who knows? Sugar is bad for you but at least we know how it's bad. People have been eating sugar for a long time.

So, I've reached the point where I have to spend a lot of time thinking about food. Until recently I ate anything and everything I wanted. Now I'm trying to eat a modified version of low-carb and it's mostly not bad. It's hard to believe this can be a heart-friendly diet because it seems pretty loaded with high-cholesterol foods. But cutting the carbs is interesting. I used to get that overwhelming feeling of being hungry -- really hungry -- and that's practically gone.

I'm finding this whole thing tolerable. I don't really miss the potatoes and pasta and bread very much. Now that it's summer, I miss the chips. (Love chips.) And I have to admit that I'm still eating desserts occasionally. Ok, more than occasionally. When I really watch it and cut out the sugar, I can lose a little weight. And my exercise level makes a definite difference. I've been able to maintain my weight fairly easily over the past few months. I'd like to lose ten or fifteen pounds. I just need to force myself back onto the straight and narrow for awhile. We'll see.

Posted by cindy morton at 8:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So much for posting regularly. I was going to post first thing this morning. That's what I used to do. I think part of the problem is more email traffic. There are things in there that need to be dealt with more or less immediately. And there's so much spam to clean out. Must try some other strategy to get the filter to pick up more of that.

So, nothing much in the post. I do have some ideas for future posts. Very little in my life is blog-worthy so we're left with manufactured non-topics. That's life.

CM

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I haven't done anything with this blog because I'm not sure what's acceptable. I'm going to assume that I can just go ahead and use it as I wish. You have to use these tools to envision how they might be used, what they're good for, and what their limitations are. And it's pointless to contrive uses for these things. The most successful situation for learning is a situation where you need to use what you're learning. Making pointless posts and comments to a blog gets you acquainted with the possibilities. Daily use forces you to learn things. Teaching someone else really reinforces the important points. It can also force you to use and think about parts of the package that you're not inclined to use.

So, I'm going to try to get back into regular postings. They'll be of use or interest to me. The content may not be work-related but the activity is. Too bad I didn't decide to do this on Tuesday. Dates like 6/6/06 are always worthy of comment.

Posted by cindy morton at 8:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

No whining today but I'm glad there will be another nonstudent in this office soon.

I rode yesterday. It was above 40 degrees but damp. I had on two pairs of wool socks, heavy leather riding boots, with rubber galoshes on over top of that. My feet were still cold. Oh, right, no whining. It was great to be out riding, even with cold feet.

Today I'm wearing clogs, thinking that tall shoes would keep my feet dry. It quit raining early so no worries about that. Enough drivel for today.

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Nothing much to say. I could whine. Yesterday I got to work around 7:15, as usual. Planned to leave at 3:30, as usual. At 1:30, student announced that she was too sick to come to work at 3:00. Sometimes another student will jump in and sub at the last minute but yesterday, not. I got to stay until 6:00. And, of course, I had plans that I had to cancel. I'm sure all of these students will wind up in situations where they're managing people. Unfortunately, I'll bet none of them wind up managing students. That would be the only fitting justice.

And a link to an interesting blog:
The Iceland Weather Report
http://www.icelandweatherreport.com/

I'm a weather addict. Some people watch sports, some watch movies, some watch news, I watch weather. It's too bad the Weather Channel isn't a little better. I'd rather watch a class on meteorology than Storm Stories. Actually, I'd rather watch almost anything else, and I do.

But the Iceland Weather Report isn't really about weather. These are:

WDBJ 7 weather
http://www.wdbj7.com/global/weather.asp?
We'll hope that link doesn't change but it wouldn't surprise me.

Weather Channel
weather.com
And this might work for local weather. Or not.

The Weather Underground

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Here we go again. It's the middle of the afternoon and I have nothing to say. I can't believe I'm STILL working on the schedule for the student workers. And I've got two students who seem to be sick all the time. I really haven't had that problem ever before.

On a completely different subject, everyone should get an RSS newsreader or whatever it's called. The cheapest, and easiest that I've found is Bloglines, http://www.bloglines.com/. At some point I should experiment with putting up a button for subscribing to this blog via Bloglines. At a quick glance, I can't find that information. Maybe tomorrow.

Posted by cindy morton at 2:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's a beautiful sunny day outside -- supposed to be 65 degrees. Can't beat that in January. Actually, I think that's a pretty acceptable temperature any time. Ten days from now, winter will be 1/3 over. That's good. It's all good. I'd like to have one good snow storm but no ice.

It's pretty bad when I'm blogging about the weather. Boring.

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Not much dashing is going on around here. I used to move pretty rapidly. I also used to be extremely impatient. I hope I've transitioned to just moderately impatient -- perhaps occasionally patient -- but maybe you can't have one without the other.

Now if I could just train myself to think before I speak, or speak more deliberately, that would be a huge improvement.

[Yes, this is here primarily to take up space in the exercise of posting daily. I may have to resort to Quote of the day. (Hmm, that's "Four humorous quotations each day from The Quotations Page." I may have to find another source.)]

Posted by cindy morton at 9:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It seems to me that for this to be a reasonable experiment, another entry on another day is needed. So, here it is.

I've always thought that these things require daily updates. I prefer to read frequent updates. I suppose the RSS feeds have changed that but there's something to be said for the habit of daily updates. Many, many people begin their day with their first cup of coffee and their favorite websites, whether blogs or news or something in between.

For the writer, every benefit is on the side of writing daily. Whether it's beneficial to publish that dailly product is debateable.

Back when I used to do this, I strongly preferred to write first thing in the morning. Part of the reason that stopped is because my mornings changed from solitary to . . . not. Such is life. How much navel-gazing does anyone need? And if it becomes a simple recitation of the days events -- that's not without value but does putting it in the public sphere add to its value?

[I like the automatically inserted navigation MT uses.]

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