I got free gyros today. I'm glad I get to type that instead of say it. I always pronounce it "heuros," and I always second-guess myself. Then I had to listen to people talking about how mining is bad for the environment. Yup, I'm pretty sure I knew that already. But know I know an hour more of it, I guess.
Yesterday I got free chinese food for listening to a guy talk about his help in re-writing Minnesota statute to account for gay marriage. That was okay, but he was pretty dry. The food wasn't though! So I spend most of the time recording the food I had eaten since I last updated my calorie-tracker app. It was pretty unhappy with me about that malt I had on Saturday, but other than that, I'm doing okay. Also, I learned that it's always fun to hear a man in a suit say the word "lesbian." And even more amusing when he pauses ever so slightly before "sperm." He was talking about the troubles with gay couples and parenthood, you see. He was obviously used to the subject, since it's in his line of work, but I guess some words never quite flow off the tongue. (Not lesbian; he said that just fine. I'm just immature and think it's hilarious for some reason when a well-dressed man says it to a room full of college kids.)
After class I headed to the rec to work out/play handball with anyone who showed up, since I wasn't scheduled to play for my league team. I did basically the same thing as yesterday, except my mom told me that one time she went to an indoor rowing thing where they rowed 2,500 meters and she overheard a guy say 10:00 would be a good goal. So I rowed for five minutes to warm up, jumped some rope, sat down, and gave a pretty decent effort. Five minutes in my address was hovering around the 2:00 mark for 500 meters, which meant I was exactly on pace for ten minutes. I gave it my all from there on out, and I finished with this:
It doesn't stop right away, but I know I finished in 9:35! I'll look up what a good time is at some point, but tonight I'm going to pretend I'm amazing.
I jumped rope for a while, ran on my pre-cor machine with my one-minute variations (though this time I upped resistance with every cycle), and then sat down to row again. I started off with a 2:10 pace, and I decided I was just going to concentrate on being as efficient as possible. Sure enough, it dropped to around 2:00. It's really crazy how much difference a little bit of variation makes in this sport. 2:00 is ridiculously harder than 2:05, for example, but it's also much easier than 1:55, which is what I had been doing. So after five minutes I was averaging around a 2:02. I struggled for the remainder to get it averaged out to about 2:00.
I'm pretty pleased with myself! I really hope it's justified...
Anyway, I jumped rope for a bit, then I got to play some easy handball with some folks. Then it turned out the university league team was playing at home today, so I got in a singles game and a doubles game with the people that showed up for that. I studied while everyone was playing, though, and that's a thing I really need to get around to tonight, so I'm afraid I'm going to cut this short.
Can you believe 170 people looked at my blog today/yesterday? I don't know why that is, but I'm sort of honored. Thanks for reading!
Oh, and I saw this on the internet today:
It just took me like eight minutes to find it though, since the person misspelled squirrel as "squirell," and even once I figured it out through some interesting detective work, google wanted to thwart my recovery of the image using its nefarious autocorrect. The reason this is awesome, though, is that it's called Jean-Claude Van Squirrel, and I had just seen this video posted on facebook:
Because I know lazy people exist, I'll spoil it for you: Jean-Claude Van Damme does the splits like the squirrel. EXCEPT THE TREES ARE MOVING TRUCKS! That guy is cool.
But seriously, I have to study.
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