kowtow

In a fairly untypical burst of fall activity I have started sailing, which I mentioned in previous posts. I have also started running in an effort to drop some weight (by some I mean about 65 pounds). Today I am happy to say that I ran 3.4 miles. Which is a record. The last time I ran anything like that would have been back in the early 90's in High School I think.

I am not a runner. Not by a long shot. But I had been sitting on my ass while my college diet of whisky and chicken wings caught up with me. I changed my diet up about a year ago. I am now mostly a fish eater, with occasional strays back to pork, but I have given up on beef almost entirely. I eat more vegetables then I have in the past and I started to realize that what I was eating wasn't the thing that was killing me.

It was the waiting in my chair and wanting to be thinner but not doing a fucking thing about it. So I am changing that. My step-dad wants to do a trip to Mt. Rainier in the summer next year and I have a friend that wants to do an ocean race on a boat from Marion, Mass to Bermuda which would be spectacular fun. So I am trying to get down my weight for those two things. I have a goal, rather than a desire to look better in a shirt.

Not much is going on in my life other than that. I have been trying to get some writing done and just don't have the energy right now. Which is shitty because I have a crap load of editing to get done before I start applying for grad schools in the fall.

Right now I am listening to El Gafia Paris/Casbah