September 14, 2000 1:50 AM EST

Covered Paul's progress... How am I doing? I'm getting so forgetful and senile. Having trouble sleeping and I really must get some good sleep if I have to get up for gym. Yah! I knew adjusting to fall would be hard, but man this is really hard. :P

Rediscovered a pretty "printable" thingie for weights from SoloFlex while cleaning out old bookmarks. Not that it takes SoloFlex brand weights to do it, but it's a decent enough guide. There's a whole PDF manual you can download from Body by Jake as well, but I'll take the cheat sheets any day.

As far as motivation goes, I'm starting to flag a bit. I'm tired. This is the not-so-fun part.

I've pretty much decided to go for it and register for the Disney 10K after this next paycheck to help keep things fresh and lively. It will be just under $50 for the both of us, but hopefully there will be slots left open. Which means for the next 2.5 weeks, I need to get up to speed. I'm not worried about the distance. I know I can cover 6.2 miles. I'm more concerned about avoiding the straggler's van because there's a time limit on this race! If it's closed, I can try the Heart and Soul or the UCF 5 Mile one. But I'm setting my sights on the 10K.

I just don't do well once my attention span is used up. I'm better about lasting longer before "breaks" -- so there is progress, but finding the energy to rev up again can be a hurdle of it's own. Wrote to some people who live around here who were interested in local buddies, so let's see what becomes of that. Trying to be more active on mailing lists and stuff. Also hunting about for other journals to read. Anything at all to bring me a breath of fresh air!

I got the last of the new forms pasted with my name and race number labels. Then pasted all the address labels and envelopes shut to send my latest progress report to my sponsors, then I pasted stamps an all that. Sick of pasting things!

Still trying to dream up designs to put on T-shirts and coffee mugs. Courtney suggests "celestial" things like moons and suns and stars. Those sound cool, but what else? What would you be willing to buy on a mug or T-shirt? I need to send Adrith designs for the little store we want to do for fundraising.

So I guess I'm still hanging in there.

~Astrophe