The Visible Woman...October 8, 2003

I tend to slip around the clock, not quite honoring the circadian rhythm. I'm getting up earlier now and in a few weeks we will have the arbitrarily determined shift back to time that lets us sleep later. I think, left to our own devices, this is what humans do. Not quite honor the comings and goings of the sun, that is.

Daylight Savings time baffles me. Sure it might have made sense to let people go home before it gets dark in energy crises but why not just do it. Sure they have to come in earlier. Seasonal hours. But switching time twice a year? Stupid.

But I digress and I haven't even started.

Really I want to talk about the circadian rhythm. How, on our own and without the government, we would sleep and eat at certain times during our one revolution. Only it doesn't quite work.

Left to our own devices we tend to slip out of the rhythm a little.

This morning I awoke earlier than usual and in need of no more sleep. I could have gone to the gym and worked out prior to water aerobics. But I didn't. Instead I fooled around online and with my journal. I read some other journals. I am trying to identify people I might see at the JournalCon. I don't find too many that I really want to meet or maybe I can't tell if I would like them in person or not. There are a core of people who seem to be friends who have pretty interesting journals and seem worth meeting. Doesn't matter, really. I'm just going on a lark because it's here in Austin. I keep thinking 'these people are all too young.' But, in my real non-pixel life I have lots of young friends and enjoy them so that's silly.

Still...my rhythm has changed. At 7:30 this morning it felt late. I'm not sure it's not a one time aberration, though.

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

A Journal from Austin, Texas. A Project of LBFFP Stealth Publishing.
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. part of the problem in clearing out the house...old copies of The New Yorker which comes fifty times or so a year...and often stays around for years	circadian rhythm I tend to slip around the clock, not quite honoring the circadian rhythm. I'm getting up earlier now and in a few weeks we will have the arbitrarily determined shift back to time that lets us sleep later. I think, left to our own devices, this is what humans do. Not quite honor the comings and goings of the sun, that is. Daylight Savings time baffles me. Sure it might have made sense to let people go home before it gets dark in energy crises but why not just do it. Sure they have to come in earlier. Seasonal hours. But switching time twice a year? Stupid. But I digress and I haven't even started. Really I want to talk about the circadian rhythm. How, on our own and without the government, we would sleep and eat at certain times during our one revolution. Only it doesn't quite work. Left to our own devices we tend to slip out of the rhythm a little. This morning I awoke earlier than usual and in need of no more sleep. I could have gone to the gym and worked out prior to water aerobics. But I didn't. Instead I fooled around online and with my journal. I read some other journals. I am trying to identify people I might see at the JournalCon. I don't find too many that I really want to meet or maybe I can't tell if I would like them in person or not. There are a core of people who seem to be friends who have pretty interesting journals and seem worth meeting. Doesn't matter, really. I'm just going on a lark because it's here in Austin. I keep thinking 'these people are all too young.' But, in my real non-pixel life I have lots of young friends and enjoy them so that's silly. Still...my rhythm has changed. At 7:30 this morning it felt late. I'm not sure it's not a one time aberration, though.
JUST TYPING Time slips through your fingers. Early morning, in the dark, you feel you have captured it and can hold it in your hands. With light, it proves its ephemeral nature again. Slipping, slipping away.
		Food Diary. *breakfast* (at about 11) about a cup of Puffins cereal with 2% milk and a banana goat cheddar (2oz?) and some tortilla chips (15?) *lunch* nothing...when you breakfast at 11... *snack*s boiled egg and ounce of goat cheese dinner [benefit event] several little apps and a Frito chili pie (venison chili); there was a little salmon, a little goat cheese, various pastas, scallops; and a glass of white wine and a vodka tonic small glass of diet soda I know I should eat more, smaller meals. I calculated my BMR from a formula in an article in this old magazine I found at the club. It came out 1350 calories/day. One should factor into that any real exercise like the bike and stuff. I figure I get about 250 more calories for such things. That means I can eat 1600 and stay at my weight. Your results may vary. (You, of course, are probably not 55 years old.) This means that if I eat 1450-1500 calories a day I should lose a pound a month. I have no way to actually calculate my calories, though, because I'm always unsure about precise amounts and counts. So...I think I'll just continue to record what I eat, more or less, and watch myself overeat while I try to control intake of drinks that aren't water or vegie juice.I would sort of like to get to 150 by the end of the year with more muscle. Did you know muscles burn lots more calories than fat. I don't really understand that but muscles are your friends.I did manage to drink only two drinks at a party where alcohol flowed. (I did have a Diet Coke at the end. I don't like to drink the stuff but it's better than calories and alchohol.)
		Time flies.... I told myself that I would either go to the gym before water aerobics or else skip doing anything after and get home and do this cleaning and straightening with a vengeance. But I showered off and worked out because I feel like the water aerobics is just not enough. Then the cleaning out is so tedious...what to do with stuff? I carry some stuff to the curb that gets carried away by the Shoal Creek pickers. They always show up. This isn't going fast enough!

		Reading. Read an old Real Simple magazine at the club and continued reading a little overview book about D-Day.
		Just this journal. And not much time spent there. When my things are all organized I will really write. It will be about 2010, I think.
		Exercise one hour water aerobics Thirty minutes on treadmill. Some abs and stretches. Twenty minutes on recumbent bicycle. (Note: See...I did something besides the bike. I think I'm getting better at doing the intended exercise in water aerobics and getting more out of it.)
	.	99/54 84 I was going to be so productive today and that was going to make me feel good. Didn't work out that way, though.