Monday, April 04, 2005
well, my japanese lesson quiz didn't go so well today...i didn't have enough time to finish. plus, i completely forgot to do the assigned reading beforehand. komatta naa! oh well.
geez, i can't believe the boston marathon is only 2 weeks away. that's so scary! :) i can't believe i'm going to be running it!
oh, and i'm *so* incredibly sore now from pilates class (wellbridge) yesterday... basically my abs hurt everytime i move. i wasn't sore this morning...i guess it took about 24 hours to kick in. anyway, i guess that's a good sign though (that muscles are actually building up, and it wasn't for nothing). hmmmm...maybe if i start doing pilates 3x a week again, i can eventually shrink my waist down to 24" ? Hah, yeah right. :) I think in order for that to happen i'd have to get a few ribs removed...and maybe my spleen and liver too. :) I mean, when i was 20 lbs lighter (115 lb, about 3 years ago), i still had *nowhere near* a 24" waist, so i've long decided to give up on that. :) it's crazy though, cuz TV & magazines seem to have women believe that unless you have a body like Kate Moss's (5'7", 105 lbs, meas. 33-23-35), then there is something wrong with you and thus you need to diet & exercise like a fiend to make up for it (it's basically on the cover of every women's magazine, from Woman's World to SELF). Sheesh!
anyway, i guess the above semi-rant in the 2nd half of the last paragraph was partially arisen by some of my thoughts on the Terri Schiavo case, and my surprise at how the media paid almost no attention to that fact that the entire reason behind her being a vegetative state in the first place was because she had suffered from an eating disorder (at the age of 26, she had a heart attack due to an electrolyte imbalance caused by her bulimia..this is what led to her permanent brain damage). I found it quite annoying that a lot of politicians, etc focused so much on the issue of whether or not someone has the right to die, whether or not it's "morally correct" or whatever...yet no one seemed to give a rat's ass about trying to prevent this situation (a young woman slowly killing herself) from happening to anyone else. I recently found a site that discusses this issue, and explains my view point very well...below is an excerpt:
The whole bunch of so-called pro-lifers seem only concerned with somehow continuing to force-feed this unfortunate woman without any pretense at discussing our sick culture that causes women to hate their own flesh. With all these Senate bills and last-minute interventions by the Governor, why not fund an eating disorder awareness fund or two? Even just for show, why not use this tragedy to try to warn the who-knows-how-many young women risking a similar end? Why not use this to examine how culture fosters such severe self-hatred in women?
That might actually save lives, you know...
But, instead, we have a public fight whether to force-feed or starve Terri Schiavo, carried out, it seems, mostly by people who care neither about her or about the myriads of young women who could become her any moment. A fight that would not have had to happen if we had just let her eat.
geez, i can't believe the boston marathon is only 2 weeks away. that's so scary! :) i can't believe i'm going to be running it!
oh, and i'm *so* incredibly sore now from pilates class (wellbridge) yesterday... basically my abs hurt everytime i move. i wasn't sore this morning...i guess it took about 24 hours to kick in. anyway, i guess that's a good sign though (that muscles are actually building up, and it wasn't for nothing). hmmmm...maybe if i start doing pilates 3x a week again, i can eventually shrink my waist down to 24" ? Hah, yeah right. :) I think in order for that to happen i'd have to get a few ribs removed...and maybe my spleen and liver too. :) I mean, when i was 20 lbs lighter (115 lb, about 3 years ago), i still had *nowhere near* a 24" waist, so i've long decided to give up on that. :) it's crazy though, cuz TV & magazines seem to have women believe that unless you have a body like Kate Moss's (5'7", 105 lbs, meas. 33-23-35), then there is something wrong with you and thus you need to diet & exercise like a fiend to make up for it (it's basically on the cover of every women's magazine, from Woman's World to SELF). Sheesh!
anyway, i guess the above semi-rant in the 2nd half of the last paragraph was partially arisen by some of my thoughts on the Terri Schiavo case, and my surprise at how the media paid almost no attention to that fact that the entire reason behind her being a vegetative state in the first place was because she had suffered from an eating disorder (at the age of 26, she had a heart attack due to an electrolyte imbalance caused by her bulimia..this is what led to her permanent brain damage). I found it quite annoying that a lot of politicians, etc focused so much on the issue of whether or not someone has the right to die, whether or not it's "morally correct" or whatever...yet no one seemed to give a rat's ass about trying to prevent this situation (a young woman slowly killing herself) from happening to anyone else. I recently found a site that discusses this issue, and explains my view point very well...below is an excerpt:
The whole bunch of so-called pro-lifers seem only concerned with somehow continuing to force-feed this unfortunate woman without any pretense at discussing our sick culture that causes women to hate their own flesh. With all these Senate bills and last-minute interventions by the Governor, why not fund an eating disorder awareness fund or two? Even just for show, why not use this tragedy to try to warn the who-knows-how-many young women risking a similar end? Why not use this to examine how culture fosters such severe self-hatred in women?
That might actually save lives, you know...
But, instead, we have a public fight whether to force-feed or starve Terri Schiavo, carried out, it seems, mostly by people who care neither about her or about the myriads of young women who could become her any moment. A fight that would not have had to happen if we had just let her eat.
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