Training and Cinephiling

Yup, believe it or not, I ran again. Still fairly pathetic, but better than my last run. I'm running in the Lincoln Half-Marathon this next May, and I have this notion in my head that I'm going to actually train for it and be in decent shape by then. Not an unreachable goal, but one that will take a lot of work and a different mindset than what I currently have. I need to break my junk food diet and actually go running regularly if I want to lose the rubber padding that I've got all around my body. I've lost weight before; then I gain it all back. A vicious cycle. Yes, I've written all of this before so I don't think I need to say anymore about it.



I watched an interesting movie this weekend: Downfall. It's a German film about the last days of Hitler as the Russians close in on Berlin. I'm on a foreign film roll lately, watching The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last weekend and then Downfall this weekend. It takes a while for me to get used to the subtitles. I always feel like I'm missing everything while I'm busy reading the dialog. I recommend them both. It was hard to watch Dragon Tattoo because I had just finished the book. So I spent the entire time thinking, 'this wasn't in the book,' or 'they left out that whole section!' I'll have to watch it again after I've been removed from the book for a while longer. I'm looking forward to seeing the English version that's coming out soon. Another one that's on the schedule is the latest Sherlock Holmes flick. With a slight bit of Kevin Baconing without any actual Kevin Bacon: Noomi Rapace, who plays Lisbeth Salander in the Dragon movies is in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Should be fun.

All right, enough of this, I'm off to watch the football game.

The Fat Will Rule the Earth

Yup. It's that time again. Time for me to blog about running, getting in shape, losing weight, blah blah blah. I've done it before, I'm doing it now, and I'll probably do it in the future.

I am fat. Obese. Working on my first heart attack and trying my damnedest to shut down my pancreas. I seriously need to lose weight or I'm going to be reaping the bitter fruit of my life of excess eating and sparse exercise plan. I've been a yo-yo dieter with Weight Watchers for about four years now. I'll get motivated and work really hard for a week or two and then I lose it. I blow up like Oprah and it sucks.

Anyway, I went for a run tonight, as you can see below. It was cold outside. And my run still looks pitiful.

First Test

Tomorrow night is my first accounting test. This is the first class I've taken since graduating in May 2007. I'm fairly confident since it is my only class, but I'm also a little nervous. I tried to study some tonight, mostly by taking practice tests on the online resource that came with the book. I took a break and Wanda and I went for a walk. Then she helped me study a little bit by quizzing me out of the book. I'm not feeling too bad, I guess we'll see how it goes. For now, sleep (World of Warcraft?) beckons.

WoW characters:

-Gibraltir: Level 24 Human Paladin on Nazgrel.
-Wandy (actually made for Wanda, but she makes me play her): Level 9 Night Elf Druid on Nazgrel.
-Catopulis: Level 4ish Undead Warlock on Balnazaar.

In other news:

I'm trying, yet again, to exercise some more. I've ran three times this week so far and surprisingly, it's been in the mornings and I've actually felt pretty good. I think some leg stretching would do me some good and make it easier for me, but I've been content to trundle through the pain so far. Farewell!