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Finally got my shit together and just submitted my first application for an overseas job. This one happens to be in Jakarta. I'm not super well-qualified on paper (although I do think I'd do well if I got it, and it's a cool-sounding job) so I don't have my hopes too high but it's good to just get the ball rolling on something that I've been dreaming about and talking about since I was a teenager. That wanderlust and need to work abroad before I settle down is what drove a wedge between my now-ex and I. She is firmly planted and I just can't be yet. Anyway, we'll see what happens.

4847
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: okay

- warm up

- DLRVJ x ~15
a couple of early ones very good, >35 and one maybe 36. then okay. stopped once i had two below 34 in a row.

- jump rope 30/30 x 20; double unders 10 on the half-minute x 8

- superset x 2
-- X-band walk x 10/each way
-- SL hip thrust x 20

- DB OHP 50s x 8+3+2+1

- pull up x 8+3+3+3+3

- ab pull down 100 x 20,20

- stretch

4848
hahaha that's so weird.

4849
i'll kill you both.

4850
raptor, the way you describe yourself makes you sound depressed. if you're not, that's great! i obviously don't know.

and yeah it was clear that you weren't comparing your situation to mine. i think it's just an accident of timing.

4851
damn son.

4852
also, in fairness to raptor, my guess from over here on the other side of the internet is that he's clinically depressed. that shit sucks and is real. so while it's hard to read about this woman-idea that he fantasizes about and pines for, i also can't judge him for the way he's feeling.

in comparison, i am merely grieving and very sad. there is a gigantic, gaping chasm between that and true depression.

4853
today in unexpected consequences of grief: my appetite has gone down. i've made myself the same breakfast 5-7 days a week* for probably 4 years: a smoothie made from frozen strawberries and blueberries, two scoops of WPC, a spoonful of peanut butter (used to use yogurt but i like PB better), water, and a banana. it's a great breakfast. this morning, for the first time that i can remember, i couldn't finish it. i tried, it tasted good, but i was just plain full and i poured about 1/3 of it down the drain.

MattA, i admit to having had the thought, "well, i guess i can finally find out what online dating and tinder and stuff is like." but honestly (1) my libido is nonexistent right now, i'm not sure i could get it up even if i found myself in an insane porno scenario where a hot woman was basically forcing herself on me,** and (2) it's way too soon, the very thought makes me feel sick. i'm still stuck on the fact that i won't see her or do the things i was hoping to do with her this weekend. in time, i guess.

*except when i'm on the road, obviously
**it's funny because while we were together i would fantasize about other women all the time -- an old colleague who is literally my physical archetype for hotness, that one hot bartender at that bar, whoever -- and all of that is gone right now. i literally can barely think about sex.

4854
i'm grieving, man. not depressed, but sad. i feel loss in a way that i did not anticipate and that i can't remember feeling before, although this isn't the first time i've ended a long-term relationship it's definitely the end of my longest and most intimate one. this sucks. i'm sure it will fade, i hope it fades, but right now it just sucks so much.

off to the gym, let's see how it goes.

EDIT:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: unprecedentedly shitty, CNS dead

- warm up
tons of layups and drop steps as usual but i couldn't even do full-speed layups. so slow.

- squat 285 x 5,3,1,3,5
meh

- stretch

pretty much all i could muster tonight. no motivation at all.

4855
Sorry bud.  :(

4856
a parasite in something i ate or drank. no idea what. i usually end up with what one of my colleagues calls "loose movements" over there but that was the worst full-blown diarrhea.

4857
haha the only time people have noticed weight loss in my face is after i was in afghanistan for three weeks a few years ago and i lost 8-10 pounds from nonstop diarrhea. only time i've had hemorrhoids, too, from all the shitting and wiping. sucked. i think i was 166 when i got home. even my NECK was skinnier, and it's not like a carry a lot of fat there as it is.

4858
Sucks man...not a fan of 'breaks' :/ You're either down or not in my book.

yeah it's not a break in our relationship, just a break in communication to give ourselves time to adjust to being away from each other. i don't think either of us wants to never speak to the other again, we still love each other, it's just that we want/need different things right now.

4859
gf and i broke up just now, i think. taking one-month break until checking in. pretty fucked up about it.

ETA: can't say i didn't sort of see it coming, i think we were headed this way for a while. and it's probably for the best in the medium term. but it still sucks a whoooole lot.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: FP's Jump Journal
« on: May 26, 2015, 09:38:15 am »
if your cardio really does suck -- and it's hard to say, not sure what "most" of 8 miles is -- then starting with an attempt at an 8-mile run probably isn't optimal. you're better off starting with shorter distances and building up gradually over time to some predetermined goal distance, like 5 miles, and then just working at that until it gets easy at a faster pace than you started at.

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