I will finish the art installation tomorrow. TOMORROW. So help me God. I have dragged this process as long as humanly possible with my general lack of productivity.
On the good side, I am currently taking Spanish classes. Woo! AND the oil has been changed in my car, which was looooong overdue.
On the bad side, now behind in my video analysis.... Like, I know that it is just a bunch of busy work I can do contentedly whilst watching some tv show or other, but I have yet to do this.
On more bad side I am sucking at reading/returning email like I'm not even myself. It used to be you could ALWAYS get a hold of me during email... Now, I'm afraid you might have to put "MAYDAY EMERGENCY!!!!" in your subject line.
Also, on the bad side, my burned foot has not healed yet. I just exercised for the first time in a week and a half, and I still can't go swimming yet. :( This is esp. tragic since I signed up for the gym so I could swim and now I can't. Wasting the month away. On the other hand, I excercised for an hour on the elliptical today. Normally I am not really into exercise machines but I can't swim, it is freaking Arizona summer outside, and the elliptical thingy was like, zero impact, which was good since I didn't want to bang my foot around too much.
Also good, despite not being able to exercise I have lost a moderate amt. of weight in the time given. I am at least back to the general weight I was at the end of the semester but I would like to go on and become like... ummm, last 2 years of undergrad skinny.. well, not that much, but close :)
I generally eat 1300-1550 cal. I am not sure how one manages to eat more than 1600 a day but I must have been doing that... hmm ok, alcohol... yess... I was having 2-3 drinks at the beginning of the summer, and like -- gin and tonic & martinis. Now I have 1-2oz of wine (or none). Not always but there are some things that are esp. good with wine -- red wine with steak, pizza, and red-sauced pasta is liiiiiike a must. And honestly I LOVE white wine with seafood. I've taken to vermouth, which lasts forever in the fridge. And it is totally cheap and flavorful -- you don't have to price up so much. Although we got a supercheap bottle at Trader Joe's and it was not as good as the stuff we usually get. So, not THAT cheap I guess!
Oh, and restaurant food, for getting all those crazy calories. Also I was using waaaay too much olive oil in everything. You only need a leeetle, it turns out.
I sang and played my accordion a lot today, and even though it was not productive career - y stuff, it felt very good to do like hours of music in one day again. Did I make a mistake in shifting from pop music (by which I mean vernacular, (rock, goth, folk, etc.) lol, bc I do experimental / contemp. classical)? I have been playing down the fact that I am a singer in some ways, and esp. that at heart I'm a singer-songwriter and I think that is a disservice. I am a more versatile singer than most, and better than most pop singers (IMO, lol. It is not such an incredibly high bar, though.) though I lack a larger lower range / register.
Still, I have these huge projects that I have committed myself, too. Dinosaur and tango milonga installation... I can't just stop in the middle for a cabaret act. Especially since I have to finish a paper by the end of the summer.... bllllaaaaahhhhhh.
Also, Brent & I got Thai food delivered today to our APT! Didn't know you could that in TEMPE! AND they stay open until 10p. (Late for Tempe on a Weekday) Anyways, it was SOooOoOoooooOOOOO delicious. Unexpectedly so, since on Yelp it only got 3 stars. Welp, this is a five star place. It took forever to get here but it was so worth it. Best Thai I've had here, actually... possibly ever. Got Drunken Noodes with chicken and the Pumpkin Special with pork. Oh it was so good, esp. the pumpkin.
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