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Because I know how concerned you are with my general knee health

7 May 2007

Hi! My knee is still broken. In fact, it might be even more broken than it was the last time I talked about it for an unnecessarily long time. This week is Be Nice To Your Right Knee Week (I expect you all to celebrate/ observe accordingly) which is why I’ll be repelling coworkers all [...]

bringing the pain

4 May 2007

Tuesday I went to an orthopedist, which I think means I get to officially be thought of as Athletic from now on. (This is mainly a memo to my extended family, who only ever think of me as “the creative/ moody one” as they entertain themselves by comparing their 800M times or raising young olympians). This [...]

Running on empty

6 March 2007

I’m currently trying to harass all of my friends into doing a 5k together in May (lest you get excited, extended family, I am not planning on making my triumphant return to the Ridgewood Run Memorial Day 5k that you do every year on my birthday– I like to think of my performance as an [...]

picture pages, picture pages, open up your picture pages

25 January 2007

Last night at the gym I decided to try swimming for the first time in 15 years. I don’t know why I thought this would be a good idea (yes, I do– you can’t swing a copy of Self Magazine without hitting an article about how good swimming is for your joints, and if I’m [...]

And also

22 January 2007

While I was at the gym yesterday working on my fitness there was some kind of gymnastics or dance team recital or competition for very small children going on in one of the large gyms, so as I was walking towards the weight room (where, don’t worry, I didn’t touch anything that weighed more than [...]

we all know what bears do in the woods

18 January 2007

So, when I was 16, I was not cool. I split all of my time between studying, reading the US News & World Report college listings, participating in wholesome activities provided by my church youth group, and not drinking or making out with boys. What a difference a decade makes. Just in case you don’t [...]

all I want for christmas is

8 December 2006

1. A shin splint remedy. Thus far I’ve been (a) not running and (b) not walking to work. Whenever I wear sneakers, my right shin starts hurting. My right foot is my bigger one, and I also run funny on my right foot (left foot-normal, but on the right side I only run on the [...]

Get to the point

1 December 2006

First, some unrelated things, both to each other and to the body of this entry:
1. I wore flip flops yesterday, on the last day of November. It was 67 degrees in New York. Yes, it is going to be be 40 tomorrow, but this might be enough to get me through the winter. Maybe it’s [...]

I’m athletic now, just fyi

21 November 2006

Remember that time I went off on how general relationship happiness was making me fat? Just so you know, nothing has changed. Still happy. And fat. Except, as of four days ago, I now have a gym membership. I don’t even have a real ID card yet (apparently they spring that process on you sometime within [...]