Thursday, May 22, 2014

Normally, on days when I abandon you, like Tuesday, I’m wracked with a deep, almost Dickensian sense of guilt. I know it’s silly because, y’know, blog, but there it is. Tuesday was different, though, because I didn’t feel a thing! Didn’t log into WordPress at all, and slept like a baby who didn’t log into WordPress at all. The main reason I usually update this site, too, may have something to do with matters. I haven’t been feeling all that dull recently, likely due to all the writing happening outside this blog, and simply by stating as such I may have already jinxed myself.

Exercise may be partially to blame as well. I’ve heard regular amounts of the stuff can make you more alert or something? Regular amounts of tennis can also lead to improvements, apparently. There’s been one mental image that’s helped service substantially for King Calm and myself. Do you remember the math problem involving a lamppost and calculating the hypotenuse from the post to the ground? Well, things come together when you picture yourself as the lamppost, with the arc of your serve as the hypotenuse. Arm extension increased, form got better, and we heard the sweet spot sound a lot more frequently, like we were meant to be on Court One, upon which we were randomly assigned. This was probably the first and last time geometry’s been useful to me.

And by dint of all this tennis, I’m a pound ahead of target, and suddenly, improbably, college weight is within grasp. We’ll see what happens. In the meantime, I’ve got to log out of WordPress and back into eHarmony, where 1,200 questions need to be answered. I must answer them. I was aghast when OkCupid reprimanded me for marking too many questions “irrelevant,” insipid as they were. I will not–shall not–make the same mistake twice, for wretched is the man who is scolded by a Web-based UI.