obscure muscle groups, vegetable matter...

I've got sore deltoids, if you can imagine that. Today was Upper-Body Day, and as such, my deltoids are sore. Make of that what you will. I'm going to be huge, and women will swoon at my massive delts and sinewy-sculpted lower back. Oh yesh :)

I walked, from the FSU gym, through a fairly strong rain, to my new favourite Near FSU Restaurant, the Pitaria, where they have super-excellent Mediterranean food, which triggers the thought "I bet Esther would appreciate this". Esther, in August, you'll have to come to Tallahassee, and right after you're done swooning about my new delts, we'll have to get some falafel at the Pitaria... I got a Veggie Platter, which has hummos and falafel and pita bread and some assorted vegetables, and was very well pleased :) I hung around, had a leisurely lunch 'n' coffee, and read some Nietzsche. If I was cool, I'd write down and post my thoughts about TSZ as I'm reading it... would anybody be interested in that, and failing that, would anybody be upset if I did this?

Also, I've been noticing that I've been failing to get any comments for the past ... however many entries. Have I not been saying anything interesting or comment-worthy? Did you guys all stop reading me? Shall I just consider all of this a journal for myself and ignore the Other People Factor?

Earlier this evening, I was at the church, and a motley assortment of churchy-type people were learning the music for the summer camp we're going to put on. My mother is, among her many other talents, super-musical, so she's handling this, and I've been brought along to play drums. Only there weren't any drums at tonight's rehearsal (it was in a different room, where the drumset was not) so I ended up singing for a while, then trying to entertain the small children in the room by juggling, so as to minimize the destruction they were bringing about... that went on with limited success. Little kids are cool, some of them :) On the other end, some are really violent.

I worked out with my father, at his house, later on in the evening. I was feeling pretty sore, but ended up doing three miles on the treadmill... it'll get better as my body gets used to this. Running and lifting in the same day will be, in the Near Future, Not A Big Deal.

My father's girlfriend is interesting -- she's a really caring sort of person. For a long time, I didn't know what to make of her at all, but it's become more and more clear to me that she's sincerely loving and supportive and good-intentioned. That's really what matters...

Proud to be an American!!

This is the sort of thing that makes me want to emigrate. Just barbaric.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3042907.stm

On another note, is anybody having colour issues with LJ? Nearly everything's gone to a blue-with-white scheme for me, which looks good, but isn't my scheme.

*shrugs* Off to FSU, I suppose...

beefy vegetarians, other continents...

There are a bunch of interesting people in this world... according to personality tests and personal labelling, I'm an introvert, but it's always interesting for me to meet new people, assuming they're cool people... some people, of course, aren't. But that's not the subject at hand. Because I'm talking about cool people. Because they're much better than non-cool people. Much better.

I was in the lab at FSU today, chatting with some CS folks that Brett knows, and happened to meet an Even Beefier Vegetarian, a hoopy frood by the name of Ryan. He was on the FSU cross-country team (and he looked like it -- some people just have a look about them that says "fast") and we talked a bit about behind healthy and strong and veggie. The whole problem of the Ratio was brought up during this chat (mostly by the other guy, who wasn't Ryan), which was interesting; the CS, Math, and Meteorology departments at FSU inhabit "The Love Building", which is by and large inhabited by lonely male geeks :-\ I didn't spend too much time insisting that the problem was worse at Tech, and doesn't look to be a problem at all if you consider FSU as a whole.

Speaking of vegetarian-type people, one of the grad students in the Kernel Class was telling me about how, in India, a lot of families are apparently traditionally vegetarian (as a family), and have been so as long as anybody can remember -- she was explaining how she'd never had meat, ever, and how it was much rougher doing a veggie lifestyle in the US than it was in India. She also had a bunch of interesting things to say about languages and the different ones people speak in different places and whatnot... hrum, wish I could remember her name -- it'll come to me, or I'll ask again...

Hrum, and the same maintenance guys I'd hung around with last week said hello and told me about how the Lakers lost as I was walking past. I didn't have much to contribute on that particular conversation... but if the Lakers lost, then that means that somebody else won, right?

Ah, and it's looking like Natalie (the much-esteemed younger sister) wants to, and can, and is going to come to Spain with me :) w00t! Things look like they're falling into place for getting to the other side of the Atlantic, which is very happy. Apparently there's an agent at a nearby travel agency named Lenny -- so if your travel agent's name is Lenny, victory is assured, right? I've been constructing this elaborate fantasy world in my head in which Lenny has all sorts of strange travel-arrangement powers and knows people all across the world, and perhaps at one point shall have the sword of his ancestor reforged by Elven smiths, rename it "Andurin, Flame of the West", and take his rightful place as Prince of Travel Agents...

... and I'm sore. I'm quite sore.