Investment or frivolity?
Mar. 19th, 2010 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularSo, I looked at my bank balance today, and figured that instead of saving up for a treadmill, I'd pick up a Wii Fit system, to help me structure an exercise program and get my weight down.
That counts as an investment in my future, right? As in my future health, since it's already told me I'm moderately overweight (which I knew, sadly), that I'm OK at jogging (which I didn't know), and that I really stink at rhythm boxing (which might be the system's fault, but maybe I just need practice).
Not much to report. Been taking language lessons after work twice a week, trying to sand off some of the rough edges. Work's been fairly quiet the past few weeks.
Sadly, the city hasn't been all that quiet. I walk by some of the streets around the office, and I see broken windows with depressing regularity - the work of hoodlums that sometimes serve as outriders for some of the protest marches that happen all too often here. Stone facades on some buildings, shattered. Marble exterior to one of the Metro stops, broken up all around the edges, probably by people looking for things to throw at authority figures. "We refuse to pay for their crisis" is the mantra of a lot of the marchers these days. Polls supposedly show that the general population has a different attitude, but then, they're just trying to get by, keeping their heads down as best they can.
A bit like me, I suppose. Just trying to get by.
That counts as an investment in my future, right? As in my future health, since it's already told me I'm moderately overweight (which I knew, sadly), that I'm OK at jogging (which I didn't know), and that I really stink at rhythm boxing (which might be the system's fault, but maybe I just need practice).
Not much to report. Been taking language lessons after work twice a week, trying to sand off some of the rough edges. Work's been fairly quiet the past few weeks.
Sadly, the city hasn't been all that quiet. I walk by some of the streets around the office, and I see broken windows with depressing regularity - the work of hoodlums that sometimes serve as outriders for some of the protest marches that happen all too often here. Stone facades on some buildings, shattered. Marble exterior to one of the Metro stops, broken up all around the edges, probably by people looking for things to throw at authority figures. "We refuse to pay for their crisis" is the mantra of a lot of the marchers these days. Polls supposedly show that the general population has a different attitude, but then, they're just trying to get by, keeping their heads down as best they can.
A bit like me, I suppose. Just trying to get by.
