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17 july 2024

Sports / weights / strength

Grmpf, my trainer is sick, so my session for today is cancelled, and the next one is moved from Wednesday to Tuesday, which means my schedule is all out of whack, and I'm having analysis paralysis, which really doesn't play well with the anxiety that was already there. Grmpf grmpf grmpf.

Okay, let's do the following:

As for programme, I'll go for squats/bench/row today, deadlifts/overhead press/lat pulls on saturday. Okay, let's program weights and let's goooo.

Update: I did indeed go to the gym, and did all my programme. I found a 16kg-kettlebell, which was good to improve the weights on my squats less brutally than going from 15kg to 17.5kg in one go. I did manage benching my 12.5-kg dumbbells, so I'm officially back on the barbell next time, I decided :) And I rowed with a 12.5-kg dumbbell too, which was an increase over the last time I did these sets.

All in all, pretty satisfying.

I have THOUGHTS on what I'm doing better, brain-wise, than I was a year ago, but that's probably content for a larger post. But essentially: turns out Phil was right all along (SHOCKED PIKACHU) and accepting what my brain does when it's frazzled works better than trying to tell it that it's NOT ACCEPTABLE while kicking and screaming. Weird.

Continuing on my Coursera bingeing - I may or may not have started three courses in as many days. It's not my fault - the second one was a recommended prerequisite for the first one (although it wasn't written explicitly and I had to look for it a bit more), AND I heard a lot of good things about the Learning How To Learn class there, so this morning I went "well, what the hell, let's try that too". It is indeed interesting, and somewhat more "pop-sciency" than "self-helpey", which I appreciate.

I also did another day on the Hangeul writing class. It's interesting because it also gives some historical context, which I actually enjoy - although it's also very very clearly with the goal of "promoting Korean culture and language" and it can fele a bit preachy. Which is also interesting in itself, mind you. The class is taught by a person who speaks Korean, which feels like a weird choice for an intro course - one that I wasn't too sure about - but I find myself enjoying it immensely! There's quite a lot of repetition in what she says, and it feels like my ear is getting used to the word and sentence cadence. And I'm starting to catch a few words here and there, with the corresponding grammatical suffix, which is fun.

I did some AlphabeticalZürich work today! For one thing, I posted the last 'A' street, AND I went out with the camera for the first 'B' street. I had been procrastinating on that one because it's far away (Witikon may be the furthest place to go from here), and I had been WRONG to procrastinate, because it was super enjoyable: the two streets I shot today were forest paths, and I like wandering in forest paths! Today was particularly enjoyable: great weather (but not too hot), summer time after rain, great smells, lovely noises (I heard some... crickets?), vibrant greens. And I saw a doe! Didn't manage to get a picture of it, she flew as we made eye contact. But it was a nice surprise!

Writever

The word for today's Writever is "Care".

"Why do you care? − I have hypermerimnasia.

− What now?

− From hyper, excessive, merimna, care, suffix -ia, denoting the disease.

− You suffer from giving too many fucks?

− From giving ALL the fucks.

− Sounds exhausting.

− You have no idea."

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