Better Things

I've run into a real stiff wall regarding workouts. It is no small part a bit of depression due to some very disappointing developments on the career front and complicated by a change of schedule. After three years of teaching in the morning and sneaking off to the occasional workout in the afternoon, I am teaching late every afternoon four days a week. I'm not sure how that happened but I must have been loopy when I was asked how I felt about it. Or I wasn't asked at all, which might also be the case.

Another disappointment was spending almost two weeks on a near vegan diet, then going to a routine workplace health screening only to find that my "good" cholesterol has evidently found levels so low as to barely be human. They even trotted out the equipment again and retested me. It was still bad. So off to the internist I went for more blood tests. Maybe it will be better this time; the results aren't in yet.

There is good news: I did pull on the old workout gear and strap on the shoes and find a podcast to listen to and took a 1 1/4 mile jaunt through the neighborhood. It wasn't bad. We're at about 60 degrees and it was overcast so the black pants and a long-sleeved t-shirt did the trick. I found a little stuff sack that fit around my shoulder to hold the phone loaded with Runkeeper and reading glasses. Hey, do not snicker at the last bit of info, unless you are doing so with empathy. I cannot see my phone without them and it was a little tricky to get the podcast going while Runkeeper was doing its thing. So it goes.

The song for the day is this sadly underplayed gem from the Kinks. I think I'll get there. Eventually. I might have to start waking up earlier in the mornings to do so, but it's worth a try.

 Better Things