Feral peeves that I shouldn't feed, but that keep coming around looking hungry

[flexagon]

Overhyped email from recruiters whose company, when I dig into it, is found to be 3000 miles away. Why is business location not a prominent part of every recruitment email?

Not being able to order bathroom tile online with a few clicks, like I can anything else in the world. (Not remodeling the bathroom yet, but I found my dream tile [not the right color] and I'm feeling flush, so I thought I might order a batch before it gets discontinued...)

Circus, martial arts and yoga people dissing the "regular gym". Sorry, but plenty of smart training happens at regular gyms, and there's equipment at the good ones that's great for functional training. If you don't know your way around one, that's hardly something to be proud of.

Weeks with not enough workouts. UGH. I know muscle doesn't waste away so quickly, but it takes much less time to start feeling like a sluggety slug slug... and when I don't work out I fall into the sort of creeping resentment, anger and fear about work that smells like burnout.

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[flexagon]

Yes... I'm definitely getting more angry and snappy. I did go to the gym yesterday and have a long, kind of lazy workout that left me feeling better (although then I came home and worked and felt worse).

Is your upper body okay? Could you go to the gym and get a decent upper body lifting workout while you wait for the knee? I know that's not your idea of the most fun ever, but I find that even un-fun workouts can banish the slug feeling.

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my upper body is okay, and I've been trying to beat myself into being motivated, because honestly, just a bum knee isn't any sort of excuse for not going to the gym. Plus, I can certainly do *some* core stuff (which is actually kind of necessary right now). This slug thing feeds on itself, at least for me.