Tuesday, Sept 4th, 2012<\/p>\n
I don’t think I’ve ever slept as much as I have over the last three days, Labor Day weekend. It was great and felt badly needed. I also really pigged out, which was probably also badly needed. I still take advantage of free food whenever I can. If it’s good and reasonably clean, I’ll eat to capacity.<\/p>\n
Eager to get back into training.<\/p>\n
I need to work on my dissertation and I’m finding it hard to get into it. I have other things going on that are more interesting to me now. I was told this would happen and it’s interesting that everyone who said it would is right. At this time last year I felt very locked on. I need to make serious progress on that over the next couple of months or I’m screwed.<\/p>\n
After sleeping long hours for three straight mornings it was hard to get up on time today. My eyes are puffy and heavy and it’s only been an hour since I left my place. I haven’t had coffee yet and I hope that helps. This will be a fast week with one significant document to work on. Exactly one week from today I will run a large meeting uptown to show and describe progress on the complex systems simulation. I’m working on a document to send around ahead of time and hope to have that reviewed by my project team the day after tomorrow. That’ll be in my face until then.<\/p>\n
A friend asked me to see Phantom of the Opera this Friday. I didn’t particularly want to go but the tickets were free (or nearly) so I thought I may as well just check it out. It’ll be my second Broadway show. In about 2000, I was dragged to Miss Saigon by my second girlfriend after she moved to New York City. That was before China. I remember tickets were over $100 and at the time I was living off saltines, ramen and tuna cans because I was trying to pay off my undergrad debt as fast as possible.\u00a0I wonder if I’ll like this one more. I remember when Miss Saigon was over I thought, fuck, that’s it? That was over two weeks of food gone in three boring hours. Yeah, yeah I know… “But they used a full-sized helicopter as a stage prop!<\/em>” When you’ve jumped out of them before, it really doesn’t mean much.<\/p>\n No training today for lack of time but tomorrow it’s on. I have separation anxiety from the heavy bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, Sept 4th, 2012 I don’t think I’ve ever slept as much as I have over the last three days, Labor Day weekend. It was great and felt badly needed. I also really pigged out, which was probably also badly … Continue reading