Thursday, July 22, 2004
bent out of shape
this morning i dared myself to actually go jogging in the park. i came back with a spinning headache and a slight hint of nausea as well as a body that felt like rubber. i think i only jogged for about 20 minutes before feeling like my head was going to explode. in any case...i'm still determined to get off my butt tomorrow and give it another go. maybe i'll go slow tomorrow...15 minutes maybe. or maybe i might not even go as far as the park. i'll just jog to the park and back instead of jogging around the park. i'm still not losing any weight and instead of feeling healthier i'm feeling dizzy during my waking hours.i had a funny dream today and the day before. the gist of the dream is similar but the setting was different. it all boils down to the fact that there are certain things that i want but i know i cannot get. but then i keep telling myself that there is no such thing as the word 'never'. at least not when it comes to things that can be controlled either by myself or by others. the one thing that makes it worse is that i had something great but i lost it. it is my fault that i it is no longer with me and i have to bear the consequences. sometimes it's easier if we just had someone or something else to blame for our mistakes. if i lost my phone i'd be really pissed at myself for being irresponsible but if it was stolen it'll be a whole different story. it's still the result of my wrecklessness but it wouldn't entirely be my fault.
so i wait...and i keep on waiting and hoping that i'll find it again. meanwhile...i watch people pass me by...having what i lost...savouring what i once had. was it stolen from me? i wish it was...then it would be much easier to place blame. what they have is something brand new. what i had was something that aged with time and is now just a passing memory soon to fade into nothing. i miss it though...tremendously. so i'm waiting....hoping...wishing...
it's time to bring back some fun facts:-
- According to manufacturer Spalding, the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.
- The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito (is the mosquito an animal?)
- The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant (once again..are ants animals?)
- A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second
- If you are classified as a POSSLQ by the Census Bureau, you are a "Person of Opposite Sex, Sharing Living Quarters." (and that would be important how?)
- The odds against flipping a coin head's up 10 times in a row are 1,023 to 1
- A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch
- The thirteenth of the month falls on Friday more often than on any other day of the week. In a 400-year period, there will be 688 Friday the thirteenths, as compared to 687 Sundays or Wednesdays, the next highest number
- Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
- It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting, while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest (sounds like 90% of the men i know)
- A baby blue whale is 25 feet long at birth (holy mother of *od that's huge)
- Dolphins do not breath automatically, as humans do, and so they do not sleep as humans do. If they become unconscious, they would sink to the bottom of the sea. Without the oxygen they need to take in periodically, they would die
- Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time, they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open
- Each eye of the chameleon is independent of the other. The lizard can watch and study two totally different pictures at the same time. (i've always wondered how they determined things like that)
- Eagles mate while airborne
- Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die (apparently so do men?)
- Lions sleep up to 20 hours a day (where do they find time to have sex 50 times a day?)
feefs, 10:07 AM
