Who ordered the scrambled brains?

Real quick one.

First off, more gym numbers, until I get a formal tracking system up. Saturday, elliptical, 25 minutes, 312 calories, 1.8 miles, weighed 154lbs (lost nine pounds in a month!). Today, elliptical, 40 minutes (!!!), 512 calories, 3.1 miles, weighed 155lbs. So I’m not sure how I gained a pound, but today was a breakthrough workout for me. I think I finally got to that point where exercising releases endorphins, and for the first time ever, I felt like I could go indefinitely!! I never experienced that and it was great. The only thing that scared me was that my heart rate registered at 198bpm at one point (above my estimated maximum heart rate) and I slightly panicked and slowed down.

Second, thanks to Matt for mentioning my blog post on Coachella on his blog post on Coachella. I have yet to expound on my experience (too much to do, too little time, hence I bought this after seeing a mention to the acronym GTD on this to-do list web application review article) and I found his account very well-rounded and open-minded, something I see less and less these days as the indie scene turns against itself and morphs into an elitist-dogpile/crabs-in-a-bucket/DIY-turned-desperate-housewives social-hierarchy mess. Everyone wants to feel important but the lamest way to do that is to just jump on the rip-on-anything-outside-of-your-myopic-worldview bandwagon. (Have you had enough hyphenated-adjective-phrases yet?! How about all caps?!) In conclusion, WHO THE HELL CARES IF YOU DON’T LIKE MADONNA?! THE COACHELLA ORGANIZERS SURE AS HELL DON’T. AND NEITHER DO I.

Lastly, props to PBS. Tonight was the first time I actually got sucked into television since I started watching Lost. But with Lost I had to watch three episodes before I was hooked. And SVU and ER are a matter of convenience. But I was flipping channels and came across a Frontline/World episode about Hamas, and then a special about Massachusetts teens born of Cambodian immigrants. The shows were so engrossing; I’ve already checked KCET’s website for their programming schedule. (I know where my next charitable contribution is going.) I’m not gonna bother describing it further ’cause I can already see your mouse cursor moving away to click off to somewhere else, but man, they have some really real shows. Pure authenticity and genuineness. Pure humanity.

Update: Forgot to document that when I was doing the elliptical it was set to level 10.

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