Bespectacled Redhead

Yeah…still waiting for the “best.”

(via laughter-and-other-medicine)

I went out on a date the other night.    But it has depressed me down to the bone.  He’s five years younger than me and he reminds me of everything I’ve lost and/or given up on. At this point, I’ve given up on most everything except maintaining my health.  I gave up on going to grad school in the Humanities, getting a PhD, being the weird quiet neo-hippie writer girl that I once was, and becoming a professor.   With very little effort I became a rigid and boring corporate drone who has no creativity in her anywhere.  Not at work, not at home.   I know how to talk about three things: weight loss, cancer, and sex.  That’s why hooking up was such a great place to hide!  I didn’t have to be smart or interesting, just slutty. 

Btw, I sprung the cancer former fat girl double whammy on this guy an hour into it.  He responded by wandering off and then distancing his chair from mine.   That’s why I did it. It is the ultimate test and it looks like he failed it.  Not surprising.  Like the Sheryl Crow song goes, “Are you strong enough to be my man?” and so far no one has been.  

Thank you!  My BFF is seeing some douchebag trainer at 24 Hour Fitness who told her that she needed to stop eating fruit if she is going to lose weight.  Interestingly, he said nothing about all the fast food she and her fiance eat multiple times a week!  Hm. Fruit vs. fast food, seems like a no-brainer right?  Give someone a personal training certificate and suddenly he or she becomes a nutrition expert…

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Dang.  I need him to tell me I’m a bad girl…

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Dear Bostonian friends, please pick up a copy of this Boston.com magazine for me?

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Hahahahahaha!!!!   Btw, that’s Patty Chase!  Angela’s mom from My So-Called Life.  Ilovethe90s.

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I think my entire right leg is falling apart.  

I have a tight IT Band and it’s snapping and hurting every time it slides over my hip joint when I am doing the stairs.

My right calf muscle is still very tight; but the knot seems to be gone.

My achilles is aching, and it is obviously thicker than my left one.  I’ve been icing it regularly.

My patellar ligament is still painful.  That’s where all the issues began.  Four years ago when I was doing 45 minutes on the stairmill as a 235LB pound woman.  I’ve worn a knee strap on it basically ever since.  But one day it seemed to be making it hurt more so I stopped using it completely.  Then all of the other problems started.  Maybe I should start using it again!  

I’ve laid off the spinning because that is what’s really bothering my achilles tendon and my calf.  The first week I took it once, the second week twice and yesterday I spun alone in the studio for an hour, which I shouldn’t have done.  It really flared up, even though I wasn’t doing any sprints.  That’s the worst thing I can do since sudden bursts of energy at a high resistance really strain the tendon.  There has to be a way to take that energy load off of the tendon.  I keep seeing cycling mentioned as an alternative to running for people with achilles injuries!  My seat is in a good position; I think lowering it more would be awkward.  Maybe moving it forward will help.  

I tried to work out around this injury tonight and I just ended up feeling angry that I could not workout as usual.  I did the arc trainer instead of the elliptical and it still made my whole leg hurt.  The motion is awkward to me and the calorie counter was exaggerating by almost 2 times!  I rowed for five minutes and quickly became bored.  Tried to climb stairs and it was too painful. Then I climbed back on the normal elliptical (Precor, where the incline is adjustable) and finished with that.  

I feel that if I don’t sweat through my clothes and ruin my hair, it wasn’t that great of a workout and neither of those occurred.

I’m really frustrated and I should probably go to the doctor to make sure I haven’t torn the tendon.  It hurts quite a lot and I’m limping- its hard to wear heels at work and I don’t even wear really high ones!  I don’t know what I will do if I cannot work out for awhile.  I’m terrified of getting fat again, just terrified, and even modifications or slowing down makes me terribly anxious.  And I hate weight training.  It’s so tedious!

It was the radiologist’s report from my ultrasound.  My doctor wrote a note on it:

“Gone.  Dr. M”

She is the second Dr. M that has worked on my case.  The first one I miss desperately, every day.   He was one of the bigger loses that I have absorbed due to my relocation. I want to write him a note to let him know how I am doing but it doesn’t feel appropriate to me.  Or perhaps I am just afraid.

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Look at me!  I’m an attention whore!

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Paul F. Tompkins: Hubris!: LABORING UNDER DELUSIONS.

I’m reblogging this because not only is PFT awesome sauce, I was also in the audience when this was taped.  Which means I’m special.

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My new Comedy Central 1-hour special premieres Saturday, April 21st at 11pm E/P. FYDVRI (for your DVR’s information), its searchable title is PAUL F. TOMPKINS: LABORING UNDER DELUSIONS.

In it, I recount various adventures I have had as a show business person and as a non-show business…