Month: March 2022

I hadn’t been paying attention to the intervals. Three months to lose 45 pounds, four months to lose 35 pounds, seven months to lose 35 pounds. The final 35 has me ambivalent. What’ll I find on that leg of the journey? Is there beyond?

It was time to switch back to a belt. I still think suspenders are more effective but the shoulder pain was getting to me. I’ve reached the end of the old, slimmer clothes I kept in storage all these years, just in case. That’s six cast-off sets of outfits in a bit over a year. Just how much room it takes up. Took up.

You’ve heard it before, but I don’t believe what I see in a mirror. I was me then and I’m me now. There’s a more defined muscle here and there and my face is leaner, but I just see someone who lost control. I still don’t particularly care to document this process with photos. But these numbers are empirical. They show me I’ve gotten to this point. I don’t need external confirmation of the data of one subject. The subject’s trajectory is evident.

Distance from the self is a sign, isn’t it? Separating body from the self. I forget the term. But I remember it’s a part of who you are until the end.

I hadn’t been paying attention to the intervals. Three months to lose 45 pounds, four months to lose 35 pounds, seven months to lose 35 pounds. The final 35 has me ambivalent. What’ll I find on that leg of the journey? Is there beyond?

It was time to switch back to a belt. I still think suspenders are more effective but the shoulder pain was getting to me. I’ve reached the end of the old, slimmer clothes I kept in storage all these years, just in case. That’s six cast-off sets of outfits in a bit over a year. Just how much room it takes up. Took up.

You’ve heard it before, but I don’t believe what I see in a mirror. I was me then and I’m me now. There’s a more defined muscle here and there and my face is leaner, but I just see someone who lost control. I still don’t particularly care to document this process with photos. But these numbers are empirical. They show me I’ve gotten to this point. I don’t need external confirmation of the data of one subject. The subject’s trajectory is evident.

Distance from the self is a sign, isn’t it? Separating body from the self. I forget the term. But I remember it’s a part of who you are until the end.

opens-at-nightfall:

Peculiar little treats, with flavors that deceive the senses – what appear to be chips of ice on winter-bare twigs taste of high summer, with bursts of fruits and fierce spices melting on your tongue. They disappear so quickly that you’re left wondering if the taste was ever there at all.

Sometimes the juxtaposition of the stuff I read/watch/play doesn’t hit me until I’m aimlessly looking over my year in fiction months later.

Jan – “From the Deposition of the Vaginal Teeth” by Elizabeth H. Turner (2022)

Feb – The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete – “Leviticus” ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

bookhobbit:

not a new thought c.f. the Eddington post and the Gul Duqat Work post but it’s so incredible that all through ds9 villains and baddies of various sorts long to be Sisko’s nemesis and he resists completely and is like “I don’t think about you at all” and then the VERY LAST SEASON we find out that he’s still hung up on his rivalry with some Vulcan he went to college with and once had a drunken and wildly unmatched wrestling match with. I love him so much

Sometimes the juxtaposition of the stuff I read/watch/play doesn’t hit me until I’m aimlessly looking over my year in fiction months later.

Jan – “From the Deposition of the Vaginal Teeth” by Elizabeth H. Turner (2022)

Feb – The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete – “Leviticus” ed. Richard Challoner (1752)