I've been focusing on working out at night (prime blogging hours) and losing weight. I'm enjoying the hell out of exercising. I've got soreness across my shoulders and arms and down my back from weight-lifting and core strengthening.
It's a pleasure to feel the ripple of the muscles under my skin and the tightness in my body. It's the sense of my body changing into what I want it to be.
I love it. I'm happy.
I also have my free time back now because I'm only working on one project at work, which means I have time for my family again, and that inflates my heart like nothing else. There is no greater tonic for me than time with my family.
My heart does ache for the tragedy in Virginia Tech. It is terrible for the loss of life, terrible for the loss of innocence, and I am saddened by the endless questioning this will cause, and the almost puerile voyeuristic media blitz. I don't begrudge the media for focusing on this horrific act, but I almost get more sick watching the media fetishizing the story than I do from the actual loss.
But maybe that's how we grieve in America, but endlessly gazing at the source of our grief...
Anyway...hell, I didn't mean to end on a down-note, given how good things are for me personally, but this is what's been on my mind.
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I had you favorited in my Google Reader, but I'm just now getting around to responding. Yeah, the feeding frenzy that is the mainstream media just made me ill over this whole thing. We have freedom of the press, but don't victims and their loved ones have a right to privacy? At some point, it would be nice to see the media do the right thing, rather than the most profitable thing.
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Posted by Rick | April 24, 2007 8:51 PM
Posted on April 24, 2007 20:51