#exercise cw

I didn't ever really care about birds much before, but it's cool that there are way more kinds than I expected in my area, and after work almost every day I'm like 'ooh good it's time to go get today's bird report' and I get to focus on that instead of any meanings attached to exercising. I've even gone in 2 little nature walks I had to go out of my way to go to so I could see if I could pick up more kinds of birds!

god if the trick to feeling less crankymiserable actually turns out to be ‘regular exercise’ as per all the hideous Advice out there i WILL bite something, lol

(possibly my hat. but like. eating involves biting.)

anyway i went for another stupid little run and my breathing is still extremely a Work In Progress (i’m like. just a hair congested in general atm which i think didn’t help) and neither my mileage nor pace were anything my college self would have been remotely impressed by BUT

I've never lived anywhere that has "summer," since I tend to live in temperate or near-arctic climates. (I've been in the South, but never for long and never in "summer.")

I used to be a fan of autumn, for the change of colors and the feeling of returning to routine after the summer. But then I became a math grad student and I don't really have routines anymore, since I'm never "on break" but instead am always either sitting down and working on my thesis or lying down and fuming about my thesis, while still hungry and tired all the time due to the consistent lack of protein in my diet.

My wife has started climbing with me 3 times a week + running, and this morning she said, “I wanna get in really good shape and then rub it in my family’s face, they’re gonna be so pissed”