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Thursday, August 5 1999
Another person shooting up their workplace. What is this? So work can be a real bitch, but the solution is not to shoot people. No wonder kids are killing when they see adults solve their problems with killing. How is killing people going to solve anything? We had a workshop this week at work about being nice to each other and all that, which is fine, but when people blame their problems on someone not being nice enough to them, then we do have a problem. Society has a problem. It's hard shopping when I'm trying to diet. There are so many choices and so few calories to use. I don't care much for "diet" food and try to just eat low calorie foods. Skim milk is a big winner. I used to hate skim milk but in the last five years I've come to prefer it. Whole milk tastes funny now. When I was taking the bus through the south last fall it was hard to get skim milk at the bus stations and I had to settle for whole milk for the first time in a while and didn't like it as well. What is this thing about no skim milk in the south? And all that sugar in ice tea? I like ice tea without any sugar. See this is where choice comes in. I don't like being overweight and I hate having to diet but I don't blame someone else. I chose to eat like a pig and I'm the one who has to choose to stop eating as much. I ate too much because I chose to quit smoking, and that was much, much harder. But I'm the one who chose to smoke in the first place and I chose to continue smoking and to start again so many times when I had quit for a few days or weeks and even months. No one made me smoke, it was my choice. Smoking was not a smart choice but most of our choices aren't. What matters is what we do when we realize that our choices are bad choices. It is up to us to chose something else, and it's usually something that doesn't appeal to us as much. What people have done to us is often a crime and a shame, but what we do from now on is our choice, even when our choices aren't that good.
Biked - 13 miles
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