Monday: heavy squats; Tuesday: Hill Sprints; Wedensday: deadlift night - did nothing, shins/quads ache, went to bed early; Thursday: up early, ran two miles before work, shins /quads killing me now...
Conclusion? Hill sprints are my enemy!! Tonight is deads, if I can fit it in before practice. If not, I'll have to do them tomorrow, then Squats on Sunday again. I really dislike not having a set schedule for this, but I'm trying to fit in both Tues. & Thurs. night for band practice now, and it's throwing my routine off.
On the plus side, I learned a couple more songs Tues. night, which brings my "new song" list to 8, of which I know 5 well enough to perform at practice, and I'm close on the other three. Still aiming for a show in July, but we'll have to see how it goes.
I've really been getting into a lot of german rock music recently, mostly older, 80's-90's stuff. A guy I work with is from Germany, and he let me borrow some of the cds in his collection to copy. A few of my favorites are "ExtraBreit", "Die �rzte", "Die Toten Hosen"*(this name translation, in slang, is funny!), and a compilation cd entitled "Fremde Freund - Songs f�r Courage". I've met one of the bands on that last cd, "Die Roten R�ben", and am still occasionally in contact with the old bass player (he's not with the band anymore).
I'm starting to feel a bit guilty about not going out to visit "the gambler" - part of me really wants to, another part of me really doesn't, and yet another part of me thinks I'm an idiot for wanting to spend that kind of money, when I have so many other things I should be doing with it. All in all, though, the whole situation just makes me sad, and I really don't want to think about it...
Speaking of travel, I'm going to be heading out this weekend to visit some friends, the same ones I did maybe a month or so ago. I'm hoping to see a girl I've had a small crush on for a while; it seems every time I go over there, we can never manage to get together, but I guess we'll see. She used to be taken, so I never really thought anything would come from it, but she's not anymore. I still don't expect anything, but I'm open to whatever might come about.
Also, if I'm feeling "powerful" enough, I might be participating in a poetry reading event at one of the local coffee shops out there. My friends host it, and they said that, if I'd like, they would read one or two of mine for me at first, and then I could, if my nerves held. I have quite a few poems, and have several in mind, but I'm hesitant. It has nothing to do with the poems themselves, really. I also got over my fear of singing in front of people a long time ago, but reading poetry? There's so much meaning one can add with tone, inflection, pauses, proper pronunciation, etc. I tend to read things in more of a monotone, and too quickly, making it sound hurried. I also have a tendency to not so much mumble, but pronounce things a bit lazily (or is that the same thing!?). I need to practice, but it always slips my mind until it's too late.
Anyway, who knows? Maybe I'll have the nerve to do it after all!? Either way, I'm sure I'll write about it when I return.
Bis sp�ter!
3:37 p.m. - 2009-06-18
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