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maccadoleA couple of things I've been thinking about lately...
I thought about how much we need air, and how stupid it can be. But we don't just walk around breathing to stay alive. There's more to it, obviously
Imagine, if you will, being healthy, active and fit doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a marathon champion. If you can't get air into your system, you're pretty much screwed. You can be however fit you want, but you'll always be insanely restricted.
Like I told my friend:
Lungs are dumb. I want my money back.
When I was younger, and my heart and lung condition came up in a conversation, a guy in my class asked the room at large - is it really that hard? And then he asked me specifically how hard it was. I was at a loss - I couldn't describe it. A teacher then told him to put a straw in his mouth and breathe only through that while making it up the stairs to the level with our classroom. That that might be a close enough likeness.
And you know? I think it might be. Of course it's really hard for me to say, since I don't know how healthy people function. But I know what it's like to breathe through a straw, and I know approximately how much air it cuts off. I also know how insanely tired I get when walking, and how it doesn't seem to bother you healthy people at all. So perhaps cutting off approximately that amount of air would make you tired enough. You should try it.
It's so annoying.
When I'm out traveling I think, hey, at least all the heavy bags will slow them down a bit! BUT THEY NEVER DO! People walk like mad. Healthy people never. ever. seem to get tired. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? Haha, seriously, do you ever get tired? No, not tired. Exhausted! You get tired, sure, and you breathe hard after running up seven flights of stairs. But that's it.
I feel ready to collapse most of the time. Not quite, but almost, and my chest hurts. It's dumb.
I'm even dumber, because I've always sucked at telling people to slow down. It got easier when I grew up, although it does depend some on how well I know the person I'm walking with. But at least I don't have the problem of wanting to fit in as badly, now, as I did when I was a child. I wanted more than anything to ride my bike a mile with the rest of my class, or walk briskly wherever we were going. Instead I was wheeled around everywhere in a stroller, or got to ride in a car with a teacher. (And not a stroller of the baby kind, no. More of a sleek sitting-up thing... I had it up until I was ten, so, no, it wasn't a childish one.)
If I don't say anything, I kick myself for being a dickhead, and I die of exhaustion. But if I DO ask people to have a rest, or generally walk slower, I feel embarrassed. So there's no win.
I can't believe I suck at telling people to slow down.
When I was a kid I was stubborn, now I'm mostly stupid.
Secondly, I am in love.
With Kahlan Amnell. Deeply, madly in love! She is beautiful, charming, so kind, and lovely.
Yes. Yes, I am watching Legend of the Seeker.
At first glance I thought it was dumb, silly, over-the-top, cliché. Then again I watched it on Swedish TV with the dumbest subtitles ever. With translated names, even. So that probably didn't help.
Then I forgot all about it, after five episodes, and months and months later I pick it up again. And I sort of fell in love with it when I hit season two. Before then, probably, but I realized it during season two.
And all the Xena/Hercules cast and crew helped, of course. Hilarious! I love it! I love them! I love Xena! ... And Hercules, fine.
BUT I ONLY HAVE TWO EPISODES TO GO AND I REALLY DON'T WANT IT TO END!
Any Legend of the Seeker fans out there? Help, flist, help! I am dying here.
Now, bbl, Kahlan is calling. So is my tea, before it gets cold.
DFTBA
Mac
I thought about how much we need air, and how stupid it can be. But we don't just walk around breathing to stay alive. There's more to it, obviously
Imagine, if you will, being healthy, active and fit doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a marathon champion. If you can't get air into your system, you're pretty much screwed. You can be however fit you want, but you'll always be insanely restricted.
Like I told my friend:
Lungs are dumb. I want my money back.
When I was younger, and my heart and lung condition came up in a conversation, a guy in my class asked the room at large - is it really that hard? And then he asked me specifically how hard it was. I was at a loss - I couldn't describe it. A teacher then told him to put a straw in his mouth and breathe only through that while making it up the stairs to the level with our classroom. That that might be a close enough likeness.
And you know? I think it might be. Of course it's really hard for me to say, since I don't know how healthy people function. But I know what it's like to breathe through a straw, and I know approximately how much air it cuts off. I also know how insanely tired I get when walking, and how it doesn't seem to bother you healthy people at all. So perhaps cutting off approximately that amount of air would make you tired enough. You should try it.
It's so annoying.
When I'm out traveling I think, hey, at least all the heavy bags will slow them down a bit! BUT THEY NEVER DO! People walk like mad. Healthy people never. ever. seem to get tired. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? Haha, seriously, do you ever get tired? No, not tired. Exhausted! You get tired, sure, and you breathe hard after running up seven flights of stairs. But that's it.
I feel ready to collapse most of the time. Not quite, but almost, and my chest hurts. It's dumb.
I'm even dumber, because I've always sucked at telling people to slow down. It got easier when I grew up, although it does depend some on how well I know the person I'm walking with. But at least I don't have the problem of wanting to fit in as badly, now, as I did when I was a child. I wanted more than anything to ride my bike a mile with the rest of my class, or walk briskly wherever we were going. Instead I was wheeled around everywhere in a stroller, or got to ride in a car with a teacher. (And not a stroller of the baby kind, no. More of a sleek sitting-up thing... I had it up until I was ten, so, no, it wasn't a childish one.)
If I don't say anything, I kick myself for being a dickhead, and I die of exhaustion. But if I DO ask people to have a rest, or generally walk slower, I feel embarrassed. So there's no win.
I can't believe I suck at telling people to slow down.
When I was a kid I was stubborn, now I'm mostly stupid.
Secondly, I am in love.
With Kahlan Amnell. Deeply, madly in love! She is beautiful, charming, so kind, and lovely.
Yes. Yes, I am watching Legend of the Seeker.
At first glance I thought it was dumb, silly, over-the-top, cliché. Then again I watched it on Swedish TV with the dumbest subtitles ever. With translated names, even. So that probably didn't help.
Then I forgot all about it, after five episodes, and months and months later I pick it up again. And I sort of fell in love with it when I hit season two. Before then, probably, but I realized it during season two.
And all the Xena/Hercules cast and crew helped, of course. Hilarious! I love it! I love them! I love Xena! ... And Hercules, fine.
BUT I ONLY HAVE TWO EPISODES TO GO AND I REALLY DON'T WANT IT TO END!
Any Legend of the Seeker fans out there? Help, flist, help! I am dying here.
Now, bbl, Kahlan is calling. So is my tea, before it gets cold.
DFTBA
Mac
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Date: 2011-02-21 08:23 pm (UTC)I LOVED Xena, but for the girl power, not the genericness, sorry that I can't help you!
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Date: 2011-02-21 11:17 pm (UTC)It got better, though, in my opinion. Like with any new show, they didn't really seem to know what they wanted to do with it, in the beginning, in terms of how to tell the story they wanted to tell.
It's far from perfect, but I like it because it's this extreme fantasy world where everything is feel-good despite being... sad at times. Things can be sad, but they're never angsty. I needed a feel-good show for entertainment!
And Xena is silly, but also really, really good.
That's a proper show! It can do crack, average comedy, action, and the most touching, emotional stories. I love that show.
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Date: 2011-02-21 11:30 pm (UTC)also didnt like it at first when a friend told me to watch the pilot, so i forgot about it and a few months later it was on tv here and i gave it another try and liked it :D
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Date: 2011-02-22 03:55 pm (UTC)It's apparently a thing. I'll remember that! If anyone I know is going to try it, I'll tell them to stick with it because they'll love it eventually.
Ohhhhh! BUT IT ENDED! And it was so bittersweet! It was amazing.
So now I'm rewatching the whole thing! The first five episodes are especially fun, since it's been so insanely long since I watched them!
But I miss Cara D:
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Date: 2011-02-23 12:01 pm (UTC)I KNOW ITS SO SAD! I even participated in the Save our Seeker campaign but we didnt make it :(
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Date: 2011-02-24 11:59 am (UTC)It's mean to cancel it!
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Date: 2011-02-24 02:48 pm (UTC)we really did all there possibly is! we had a lot of articles in various online blogs, we had posters, we had videos (with Craig Parker and Bruce spence showing their support!), we even had terry goodkinds personal support! it all didnt matter *sigh*
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Date: 2011-02-24 03:39 pm (UTC)I heard about Terry Goodkind, but I didn't know the other two gave their support. That's awesome! Too bad it fell through.
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Date: 2011-02-23 01:23 pm (UTC)Aww man, it's bad if you have to feel that drained everyday (or ten times worse even). Is there really nothing that can be done? Lung transplant even maybe?
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Date: 2011-02-24 12:02 pm (UTC)Mhm, that's right. I've had people ask me that before. But no one involved in the medical community has ever mentioned that option to me, so I don't know. It'd probably not be worth it. If better lungs would fit in the chaos that is my body I'd have to take drugs all my life and it's very risky, I assume. So I'd have other problems anyway. Better to leave it the way it is, especially since I have my back problem, too.
I should simply work out more and try to stay on top of things. Do the best I can, and the rest is something I'll have to live with. :)
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Date: 2011-02-24 12:13 pm (UTC)