Screaming in an Elevator

Getting on the ele­va­tor this morn­ing, it turned out I should have waited. Some woman was yelling at some­one on the ele­va­tor about how he should sup­port health-care, and some ran­dom­ness about the unnamed politi­cian who’s bumper sticker adorned his jacket was so ter­ri­ble and such. She con­tin­ued to rant at him all the way up …

Productively Procrastinating

I’ve spent quite a bit of time pro­cras­ti­nat­ing this week­end, surf­ing the Internet when I should’ve been fin­ish­ing clean­ing my apart­ment. Of course, in addi­tion to total time sinks like Facebook games (Yahoo games for peo­ple who like assist­ing spam­mers), I’ve watched a shit­load of TED talks… So far the most inter­est­ing by far are …

Status

One week on, I’m down about 6lbs, which is around 10% of the goal. Today is a low day (that is, 1350 calo­ries), and I was still com­ing up short by the end of the day so I hit the chips and queso after din­ner… which I’ve got to say is addic­tive once you get …

Laptop Suspend, Status

I’ve inad­ver­tently stum­bled onto the calo­rie cycling method of weight loss. Two days of rad­i­cally low calo­rie intakes (1300) fol­lowed by two days of “nor­mal” intakes for my desired loss (1850). I’ve seen vary­ing num­bers, but the rec­om­mended course is to use this method when your weight loss flat­tens out, I was using it because …