Web guy // MA student // Recreational athlete
This was originally going to be a post about beginning to track my workouts again, tackling a new year by getting fit and all that kind of crap. The workouts have been a bit haphazard though, so I thought I’d just reflect on the past few weeks and where things are going in the next while.
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So, when I finally sit down to write my first journal entry in more than a month, what do I write about? Why, my recent sports hernia operation, of course – and getting out of holiday mode and back to job work and thesis work. Truth is, I’ve got two or three partially written posts [...]
The following encounter at the mall is, unfortunately, exemplary of public mall etiquette at the holidays – all the more when immersed in gadget chatter. I had quickly met my sons at the mall this morning while they were pondering a gift for their stepmom. As we stood looking at the item, a woman talking on her cellphone proceeded to push past each one of us, making shoulder contact, without so much as an apology or making eye contact …
It’s par for the course when athletes let their mouths run off – more so when the athlete in question is Sean Avery of the Dallas Stars. What’s kind of amazing about this, aside from the complete lack of class Avery’s comments show, is that everyone – from management on down to his teammates – is pretty much abandoning him …