return of The Plan

I was feeling quite awake and alert this morning, but unfortunately that didn't last long after arriving at the lab. Still, I was determined to get a star again. Also unfortunately, that determination didn't translate into actual work and I procrastinated until now, but I did make it eventually!

This month's star requirements are:

• go to the gym
• list 3 things to get done during the day
• do half an hour of work before checking email
• another hour before reading my favourite blogs
• another hour before reading other blogs
• reply to one email from a friend

I'm going to set some more specific non-star goals, too, since I always seem to forget about the rest of The Plan. I'm going to start using the weights at the gym. I got the first load of veges from the farm share today, so I'm going to start cooking dinner properly using them. I'll also take my lunch to work more. I'm going to give blood again, too.

I wasn't awake enough to go to the gym this morning, but I went tonight. I was looking forward to going back to the nice, non-hilly, multitaskable-with-reading elliptical machine instead of having to run outside, but I should have remembered that if I wait until the last hour the gym is open I'll have to run on a treadmill, without headphones, and have to watch the Asian tv channel because it's the only thing with subtitles. At least it's been relatively entertaining both times. Last time it was an Indian soap opera with lots of tangled love affairs and today it was about gisaeng (similar to geishas - I was confused for a while by them not having Japanese names; I didn't realise there were equivalents in other countries and I clearly would fail these tests), one of whom was pregnant with a royal family member's child, which made the others very jealous.

In unrelated news, I really want this shirt:



Except, I also really don't like wearing black...