Yesterday, I spent 3 hours at the gym, all of it working out. I went slowly, admittedly, because through crossed wires and SP traffic, my trainer was SO late that it was funny, and I became seriously dehydrated. Dear Brazilian Standard Time, I will NOT miss you. 😀 How to replenish from a calorie spend-a-thon? …
Category Archives: Healthy Eating
Gym and Love and Hate
It’s 4.47 am as I begin writing this. I have just submitted my article. I LOVE THAT. I’ll still have edits after the peer review, but the worst is over. Squeee! So let’s focus on the love first—and sorry to burst your bubbles, but it’s not romantic. 🙂 Brazilian men can be quite pleasing to …
Crazy wake up call
Oi, blogosphere, tudo bem? I’ve spent my waking hours—almost all of them—since we got back from Campos last weekend in the service of a profession that I realise I was right to leave. Well, it left me, but I’M SO GLAD IT DID! I really truly love the material, but the demands are madness. I …
I Hate Tourism
I really am—I don’t want to hit the key sites in the big cities, because I won’t feel like I *know* a place until I live it. That doesn’t mean in a hotel, surrounded by foreigners, consuming the marketable versions of a country or city’s crown jewels… for me, it’s when I spend time with …
Travel Insight into Shopping
Do you see this door? A porta permanence fechada. THIS DOOR STAYS CLOSED. Remember the skittering bug I mentioned last week? We got to know each other cara a cara last week. Face-to-face. I had gotten into the habit of turning on the light and fan before going into the loo as a warning… well, …
A Better Idea
My parfait of the other day? Well, with the leftover brownies (didn’t mention that I *also* made brownies for work yesterday—it was a good day *and* a busy day!) I decided to make a “happy Friday the 13th” parfait: On the bottom layer today, fogging up the glass, is a toasted brownie. 🙂 I wanted …
A Great Day
Fact: I am 70 years, to the day, younger than Katharine Hepburn. (source) Even if she was “box office poison” for a time, I’ve always thought she was pretty cool—classic, classY, and she wore trousers before it was common. I dig me a little non-conformism. To celebrate us, yesterday began with a parfait, proceeded with …
Should you speak up?
Well! I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip home to Montreal, which came at a truly horrendous time in terms of work, but was done in an effort to secure a future. And I think I’d like one of those, and so when the mountain beckoned, Mohammad went forth. What exactly was done is neither …
Are We There Yet?
In 2 weeks and 2 days, I shall quit this place. I’m trying not to buy food anymore to eat down my stores… but I have to buy things to make meals out of the stores, you know? You just can’t eat a can of lentils with a side of garbanzos and some broad beans …
Don’t do this
Step 1: lose sleep. A lot of sleep. Because sleep is lame. Step 2: lose your appetite so no possible nutrition works to your betterment. Step 3: undertake an 8-hour drive to Calgary and rue the fact that you can’t work and drive at the same time. Cough. A lot. Enjoy that there’s no one …