Well, this should be interesting. For that article in the local paper about
people who keep online diaries, now they want to have a photographer come in later
this morning and photograph me working on my computer. Yeah, there's a Pulitzer
prize subject. This is apparently in addition to photos of me rowing and doing
some of the other shit I write about -- I don't quite know where they're going to
put all these pictures, since I can't imagine it will be all that big a story. I
suppose they just want to take several shots so that they have some choice. It
will be particularly interesting to see how this photographer is going to fit a
camera into my tiny space here, me and my laptop sandwiched between the old
Macintosh and a large black file cabinet. I have a hunch it will involve me moving
the laptop and working somewhere else. Which is fine, but in the name of
journalistic integrity, I would just like to state that if you see the article and
it shows me working anywhere other than in a tiny cramped section of the desk,
that picture was posed.
Today's entry is going to be short, because
for obvious reasons, I need to do a bit of straightening up around
here.
This morning, I forced myself to do 6000 meters on the erg.
Really, it should have been 10000m, or else included some weight lifting, but it
was one of those mornings where the body was whining, "I don't wanna!" It took me
half an hour and a couple of chapters of Agatha Christie to even get out of bed.
The first 3000m were pure dragging torture, even with stops for a swig of water
every 1000m. It wasn't until after that that I finally got into the swing of it,
was able to convince myself to go longer without a break, and started bringing
down my split times. Probably, I should have done 10K at that point, but by then
the news show I was watching started to repeat.
When I was young, I
was taught that it is bad form to use the word "I" too often. Am I the only one
who finds that very difficult to follow in writing a diary, or should I just give
up and accept that this is an exercise in solipsism? Or am I just hopelessly self-
centered?
Average "I" count for today's entry: 4.25 per paragraph.
Posted by dichroic at November 6, 2001 07:16 AM