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13 march 2003

currently reading

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, by John DeGraaf (and others). The most engaging book you'll read (and use!) toward leading a more sustainably simple lifestyle. It'll make you want to drop the Joneses like a hot rock.

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, by Greg Critzer. If you read one nonfiction book this year, read this one. Read it to your kids, for your kids, for your loved ones. Learn how America has gradually widened over the past thirty years, thanks to corporate behavior that is utterly criminal, and America's "right" to have it all, all the time. An engaging, alarming, and thought-provoking discussion of the biology and sociology of being big, fat Americans.

spring is here. wash up, you.

I'm jogging outdoors again regularly, and today began hill sprints. Uh, perhaps "sprints" is an overstatement. I poise myself at the bottom of a big-ol' quarter-mile hill. I jog to the top. The neighbors look out their windows, concerned at the huffing, puffing, red-faced girl. Run down hill, repeat. Today was a near-death experience. I have higher hopes for tomorrow. Suffice it to say that I stink at hills.