Day three in a row

Yesterday was not as productive as I would have like regarding my overdue paper. I broke the ice though and that was good enough. I will grill it out today and to the editing over the next couple of days.

Yesterday was great though toward the end of the day. Well, first, the Farmer's Market was great- met lots of farmers (you can tell by looking at their hands) and bought good stuff. Some sun melons which I've never eaten before as well as an oriental cucumber. I also bought a whole chicken and while the prices for all of this stuff and the other stuff I bought was a bit high I am pretty sure that the quality is also high and my health will also be elevated. Well worth the price and still cheaper than Japan, so I am in a good place with food.

Yesterday I was in a funk so I rushed off to the gym in the evening before it closed. It is sooo nice to shoot around on a nice indoor basketball court. I yearn for the fresh air of my outdoor Diablo court, but this was sticky floors and fast-paced basketball. Even my shots were faster. Promptly after shooting the lights out, I met some Japanese foreign exchange students and introduced myself in Japanese. We played for about 20 minutes together before the gym was shut down. It was a lot of fun and NOT competitive. Like Vinnie said once, it's nice to play in Japan because no one cares about winning more than actually playing. I got to experience that again and it was great. I even woke up with a dream about walking away from competition, so I know that this feeling is resonating in me somehow.

Yesterday I spoke to my parents. They sound good and it was nice to touch base with them. As usual we are plotting and dreaming of the future, while talking about our past events. New vacations are in the works and old vacations have been shared too. That was calming.

Yesterday I ate well. Lots of green, continued. Some instant stuffing (not so healthy) was easy and I am eating up remnants from the summer. I came back here with a lot of backpacking meals and I will be going through them slowly too, not only eating the healthiest local organic stuff I buy. A small piece of Coho pan-fried-steamed in teriyaki/soy sauce with a small salad of mixed chards and a tomato with the last of my sesame dressing. I found the perfect dressing container while walking to school the other day- being given away in a "free" box. So I hope to get some recipes to make my own dressing. In the meantime I can revert to the balsamic vinegar and olive oil goodness that has sustained me in other places.

Yesterday is over. Today has begun. Got enough sleep, though I woke up dehydrated. I look to the stuffing for the salt-overdose and my water deficiency upon opening my eyes. It is windy and the laundry I put out to dry yesterday afternoon is seemingly dry. There has been no heat nor sun, but the wind must have done some good work through the night. I like that I can continue to NOT use a dryer, it is a waste of electricity so long as I have the ability to air dry my clothes. Plus they will last longer and soak up vital earth energy, as opposed to electric charges. Now if only I had an iron... or knew how to use it.

I have to write my paper today and it is going to be a toil. But I can sprinkle good small meals in between writing bouts. and there is still the gym where I can spend a couple of hours (including the 45-min round-trip walk) getting my body some needed energy release. And the stretch I was doing has fallen short. Perhaps I can spend a bit of time with that today and get back on track by including that into the routine. Come to think of it, I am excited for this paper today. It marks the end of my summer and the culmination of lots of work.

UCLA won. USC lost. And the best part is that I didn't spend more than 15 minutes watching any football. And I really don't care that much. And as I wrote before (or told some people) I am having a hard time watching American football. It is so slow and not really that exciting. Basketball and especially soccer and rugby are moving all the time and reflect proper ebbs and flows in human energy flow.

Last thought is a small one about American politics. Obama will win the next election. Why? Republicans are sending in nutjobs. Even the nutjobs know better than to vote for them. The psychos will, but they are a tiny minority. The Republican Party is not dumb. They want Obama to win so that he can continue to try to clean up the mess that they made. He will get close and then his second term will be over and at that time the shining new Republican leader (who will appear to be normal) will save the day! This is because they will be working with a majority Republican Congress- just you watch. Obama's work will be handed over to this new guy (and it isn't going to be a woman, considering historical precedence) and then he will go about fucking it all up again. So, the economy will be shite for another three years and then we will all get jobs when the Republicans come in to rescue us from the despotic hands of "Big Government" (which actually seems smaller than when Bush was leading us to war... HA. Just expect another small war/conflict as soon as Obama gets us out of Afghanistan. There. Documented.

And with that, I will go to my breakfast and disconnect from the internet to write my paper! Eagles and Falcons (no, not football), though last week we saw the Falcons out-gun the Eagles. In fact, last week was part of my final project... just kidding. Enough "randombling." Yes, I just coined that word!