2005.01.25 : What I'm Doing
"The effortful shepherding of one's confusion and faint nausea, which I assumed was the basic existential package, turns out to have been a temporary condition."
- Martin Amis
- Martin Amis
What I'm Reading
- Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Stephen Cordwell, Very Rude Limericks
- Terry Marsh, A Northern Coast-to-Coast Walk
- Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap
- George Orwell, Why I Write (and other Essays)
What I'm Listening To
- Death Cab for Cutie (all three albums)
- Massive Attack (the new one, the soundtrack)
- The new(-ish) Live
- The new(-est) Tori Amos
- I Am the World Trade Center
What I'm Eating
- Fresh melon and pineapple (from the fruit vendor on Villiers Street)
- Cabbage, carrot, and mushroom stir fry, with chargrilled aubergine pesto
- Quite a lot of these Halkidiki olives from Mt. Athos, stuffed with sun-dried tomato - yum!
What I'm Doing To Cling to Physical and Mental Health
- Freeweights for chest, upper back, arms, and shoulders
- Universal machines for legs
- Swimming, 8-24 laps in 20-meter pool (breast stroke only due to rotator cuff injury)
- Running, 1-2 circumnavigations of St. James's Park
- Occasional 16-24 minute hill climbs on the cross-country medieval torture device habitrail (when I can't be arsed to go outside)
- Drinking
- Reading (see above)
- Listening to music (see above)
- Eating (see above)
- Retiring at 8pm and sleeping for 12 hours
- I have no idea
