ProcrASStinating

Well it's Sunday evening and my final paper for Patricia Williams's Law & Culture class is due tomorrow, so of course I'm doing everything possible to not write it.

I'm at what is, for me at least, the worst stage, which is where all the research is done, the thoughts have been formed and outlined, and now all I have to do is physically write it out. For me, the intellectual thrill is totally over. I don't care about how I translate my thoughts into paragraphs and stapled pages. The stimulation for me was thinking about the question, researching it, stringing it all together, and now as far as I'm considered I'm done. I know for many people the process of writing is a process of thinking, and I suppose that's true for me to a degree as well, but overall it's a plug-and-chug at this point.

As for putting the "ass" in procrASStinating, I just got back from the gym where it was (again) proven that I have buns of steal.

According to my workout plan, Sunday is supposed to be a rest day, but I think that having gone to the gym 4 times already during the week I actually became a bit addicted, and I just couldn't rest today. It was also nice going knowing that I wasn't expecting ANYTHING from myself. Well I ran my usual 3 miles (I still cannot fathom how I could regularly run 6 miles all the way up through my first year in Egypt!), and then since I couldn't lift (the key to making a routine work, be it a diet, a budget, or a gym routine, is that once you get it right don't mess with it! Today was for REST!) I decided to try my new glutes (aka: ass) workout.

It's pretty simple: do leg lifts until your muscles fail on both sides, and then do it again.

The problem is that my back muscles were totally failing before my butt was (although I did do back yesterday)! I would do 50 lifts on each side, holding at the top of the extension for 2 seconds on each rep, and I think I could have kept going for at least 25 more. It's a really time consuming process when one side takes more than 2 minutes and that's just the first of two sets! There was sweat dripping down my face as if I were still doing cardio, and it seemed like the only part of my body NOT failing was my butt.

Anyway, 100 extensions on each side (200 in all) later and my tushie still feels fine. Next time I do glutes, which will be Tuesday, I'll try to make the routine more hardcore (that may not be the best choice of words since I'm referring to my ass).

Now if only I could take some of my ass muscle and add it to my abs, and some leg muscle and add it to my arms...wait I'm totally upside down! lol I think in a handstand I'd have the right distribution of muscle from top to bottom lol.

VC