idle musings

I’m reading such a fun book right now: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson. I borrowed it from an old girlfriend of mine, last night when I had dinner at her apartment. (And let me digress for a moment and gush about how much I love her apartment. [...]

Apparently, one no longer needs to drink 8 glasses of water a day. The article raises some interesting points, but that part I found highly amusing was this: Despite the dearth of compelling evidence, then, What’s the harm? “The fact is that, potentially, there is harm even in water,” explains Valtin. Even modest increases in [...]

The last few days, I have been trying to eat by following my body – stopping and listening to it, whether I am hungry or actually thirsty, whether I want junk food or veggies, etc. I’ve been drinking a ton more water since I started doing this, and also a lot of tea and hardly [...]

I bought a digital camera today. It’s on my 101 list, and I had thought it would be something that I left until later in the project because I can borrow and use my parents’ camera whenever I would like. The problem with that camera is that it takes shitty low-light pictures, both indoors and [...]

Being thin doesn’t automatically mean that you aren’t fat. The article is an improvement on how fat is being thought about, but of course they have to throw in that “most experts believe that being of normal weight is an indicator of good health, and that BMI is a reliable measurement” even though they also [...]

Normally when I am reading my f-list on LJ, when I get to entries I have already read, I stop. Today, I kept skimming entries and I clicked on one in the Vancouver community. It was someone looking to volunteer at the Vancouver Zoo, and I had already commented by saying that the zoo has [...]

My Secret Body A good read, and something I want to remember and read again.

It’s officially been the new year for 56 minutes and you know what that means? I can finally start crossing things off my 101 list! I bought a frying pan with a lid yesterday – I know it was one day early but I dropped into Ming Wo to see what they had, and it [...]