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The ugly:
Cubs in the postseason. I didn't actually have my hopes up (twenty years of watching them repeatedly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory will do that to a gal), but saints and sliders, guys...
National City. I was recently reminded (via notes from the time) that they were a pain in the tuchis to deal with when they took over my bank in Michigan fifteen years ago. They have been saints-on-a-stick tools to deal with since my mother died, and I'm damn near close to reporting them to the Better Business Bureau for incompetence, discourtesy, and obstructionism.
A ponderable:
Lori-Lyn's post on stretching time. I'm pondering it in tandem with an article in yesterday's New York Times on how being relaxed is key to performing well:
A do-able:
Via Elizabeth Bear: Help a tenth-grade teacher in LA purchase Octavia Butler books for his class.
Some good things chez moi:
Current earworm: The Kix.S's "Everybody Shake It Buddy." (You can view the first part of it with English subtitles at YouTube; it's at the start of a yaoi cartoon, so while there's nothing graphic in the clip itself, the page it appears on may not be worksafe for some of you.) It's a pretty basic theme song, but there's something about it that makes me so happy when I play it.
Getting my mitts on the first three volumes of FAKE in French. It's great getting a different look at what's being said, especially in the spots where the English translation didn't make sense to me. Unfortunately, the last four volumes don't appear to be available anywhere, but I'm keen enough that I might resort to going after the German edition. (Of course, the real solution to all this is to sit myself down and learn Japanese. Eventually...)
An amazing care package from JAMM.
Chicken salad.
Greek Gods honey yogurt.
Hearing from beloveds I hadn't heard from in a good long while. (Huzzah for Rosh Hashanah!)
A ponderable:
...while many of us focused on Mr. Phelps's world records, Dr. Joyner, a competitive Masters swimmer and an exercise researcher at the Mayo Clinic, noticed something else.
"I have never seen anyone so relaxed in the water," he said.
Relaxation. It is a trait that is often underappreciated, coaches and athletic trainers say. Yet it can make the difference between doing your best and not doing well, between feeling dragged down or soaring. Coaches search for better ways to teach it. And many athletes, including some of the world's best, work on it constantly. An ability to relax while pushing hard, exercise researchers say, is one reason why winners win.
"It's the paradox of athletics," said Rick DeMont, associate head coach for men's swimming at the University of Arizona and a former Olympian. "Tension is slow, tension is inefficient. You need to be relaxed." And relaxation can be taught.
A do-able:
Some good things chez moi:
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