200-year-old body hack

Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus : NPR: "The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by a Belgian named Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He was a mathematician, not a physician. He produced the formula to give a quick and easy way to measure the degree of obesity of the general population to assist the government in allocating resources. In other words, it is a 200-year-old hack."

July 7, 2009

Am drinking coffee and doing dishes, trying to find a link to some mindfulness exercises that I remember. My toes ache from stress/anxiety/impatience -- a weird little psychosomatic quirk that I've had since I was a kid.

My first impulse this morning was to make a list of all the projects that I need to get done. But, generally, all the act of making a list does is to contribute to me feeling overwhelmed.

Am tired. Feeling washed out after the mental pain of the last few days. Been having a bad depressive episode. It's wearing me out.

Bankruptcies low in states that don't seize wages - Yahoo! News

Bankruptcies low in states that don't seize wages - Yahoo! News: "In Tennessee, which has the highest concentration of bankruptcies, Nashville-based attorney Edgar Rothschild said wage seizures frequently tip his clients over the edge, and into a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 filing. He also said the rates may be influenced by the differences of local judges, trustees and lawyers."

Pensée

Sometimes, with depression, there is neither correlation nor causation. Neither. Just a sheen of chemical pain that paints events and thoughts the same sickly hue.

Workout: log 6-26-09

Full lunges w/ sword: 100 right, 125 left.

Pushups: 20

Side planks: 10 each side.

Leg lifts: 20

Wx

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, and germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!"

-- "King Lear" by William Shakespeare.

riding the storm out

riding the storm out
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