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I lost weight, to the tune of 2 or 3 pounds while in Austin. Okay, so I carried heavy bags around a bit. I carried bladed to, and carried heavy bits from the walmart 1-2 miles away. I bladed around ‘s pod a bit. And I walked I don’t know how many miles around downtown Austin. Still, I doubt this is more than a usual week’s physical activity for me. I think the major difference was eating less. Like, not eating excessively.

I also did 961 calories worth of elliptical cross-trainer this morning (I did an hour at difficulty 12/20), plus the bike to and from. On the other hand, I’ve had 2 clif bars one protein shake, and a huge meal, courtesy food not bombs today. I will get back to a thirty inch waist, and I’m not fucking starving myself to do it, dammit.

But, I think I have to find a way to market my plan. I think I will call it “The Vegan in Austin” diet. =) (I have no idea how is not dead. =)

I have a passport! Time for a Las Vegas style wedding in Germany. =)

Also we have something from the department of homeland insecurity immigration division addressed to an individual with a latin sounding name. This is the first piece of mail I’ve seen addressed to her. Hmmmm.

Thank you to the charming gentleman who set me up with the paid account, you know who you are.

*mwah*

(honorable mention to those who were beat to it)

*hugs*

I miss the paid membership. I was thinking about how livejournal makes by far the best way to meet someone online. You get to see how they present themselves to the world. It’s not a short term marketing pitch for something specific, it’s how they are. You can see them over time and gradually get to know them. It still has many of the hideous limitations that being online usually does, of course, but there’s a breadth of contact here you just won’t get in the real world, not on a daily basis. Sadly, without a paid membership, I can’t search the berkeley area or check out my friends of friends listing, etc. Ah well, I’ll get around to it sooner or later, most likely. =)

Grrr, third freaking time a university’s website has crashed this browser. Want to disable flash. Everywhere.

So, I was looking at cornell’s urban planning school because I heard it was pretty cool and had a policy focus. My application essay writing process for the Goldman school convinced me that urban planning is overspecialized for where I am at this point in my life though. So, I hiked on over to their policy program’s website, and checked it out. Turns out it’s in the school of “Human Ecology”. I really like that name/idea. They also have a “life cycle development” program, which looked pretty cool, if overly individual in focus, and insufficiently analytical for my taste.

Best city ever…

So, I focus all too little on the good parts of my personality. I have a stunning eloquence on my flaws, and a great hesitation, and terrible ineloquence when discussing my virtues. I think I’m going to have to sit down and make myself write an entry on why I’m cool, just to balance this out at some point. But for now, I want to chronicle the thoughts I was having. [This seemed so clear on the plane, but it feels like it’s falling apart into incoherence now, ah well]

Civil Rights & Vietnam

Probably heavily influenced by RotK, and definitely influenced by D2

And so it was, as the day wore on, we gave chase to the sun as she sped away, ever faster than our wings did carry us. And when at last we lost sight of our quarry, we sank to Earth, to rest, knowing she would find us on the morrow.

means I’m clearly still on central time. =)

Supershuttle to airport, with a very talkative driver. Wait an hour and a half at airport, because supershuttle insists on picking passengers up too bloody early for small airports. Fly to dallas. Notice a flight taking off an hour earlier that will also get me back to sf, so I only have to wait an hour and a half. Heh. I asked, and they seated me, no fuss. Good stuff. Maybe I should have checked in with the flight that was boarding as I landed. Ah well, perhaps next time. It was amusing some of the looks I got from my “save a horse, ride a cowboy” tshirt in Dallas. =) Got Apache working on my laptop. Listened to mp3s while playing adom, and grooved in my own little world most of the way back to the bay area, and railed transport, and density, and moisture in the air. It’s good to be back home.

Took a little break in my trek home at an indian restaurant I haven’t eaten at before. Came home to find the heater going full steam, and the house a toasty 80 degrees. Thermostat didn’t do anything, so I had to turn the furnace off completely. The house is only now getting back to it’s usual “tolerably chilly” self, and I would have sworn it had no insulation 😉

If you want to hire unix geeks, try to make sure your web pages won’t crash their browsers. Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas. 😉