So, what am I up to, these days? Well. Mostly, work has eaten my brain, but I think I'm beginning to see a way through, or at least... a way to arrange the tunnel lights so I can keep going, I guess?

I didn't quite complete week 5 of C25K - I mean, I did 18 minutes of a 20-minute run, which wasn't bad at all, but I didn't feel I could carry on into week 6, because it's only been getting tougher, so far. So I decided to sort of repeat week 5 this week - "sort of" because I'm not quite following the week 5 routine. I felt the programme jumps from sets of 5- or 8-minute runs broken up with walking, to that full 20-minute run on the last day. With the walking in between, I have time enough to recover, so 5 minutes of running plus 5 minutes of running plus 5 minutes of running doesn't feel like 15 - it feels like 5 and 5 and 5. I needed a bridge - and I needed not to have to listen to the same week 5 music again. So I put together my own playlist, and yesterday I ran for 15 minutes non-stop to a combination of Def Leppard, Gabriella Climi, Pink, and Kid Rock. It was definitely much easier. I'm pretty confident I'll manage that 20-minute run tomorrow.

I've signed up to do a 5k charity run in June, so now I have to keep going. *g*

Katana, high on catnip:

She's such a 'nip-head. *g*

She's taken to standing by the front door and meowing loudly and mournfully whenever one of us goes out, recently, which makes me feel like a Bad Person for not being able to let her out or take her with me. I'm not sure if she's being clingy, or if she just wants to know what it is that's so damn interesting that it keeps me away from her for eight hours a day. I've tried to explain the concept of "work", but I don't think she understands. She just gives me this look:


Seriously, if she keeps giving me this look, I'm going to have to take her with me to work someday.

One last one, to prove that I do see Kat in the daylight sometimes (and that she is occasionally upright):


Kat surrounded by her favourite things: her Ambush Tunnel/Cave Thing, her lawn (a tray of wheatgrass), and Mr Spider.

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I rewatched Solitudes, the end of Singularity, Point of View, and the end of Learning Curve yesterday, thanks to holdouttrout and her rewatching from the start. I realised that I'd accidentally put together the Sam Cries A Lot, Jack Calls Her 'Sam', They Stand In For Each Other's Spouse, And Then They Rescue A Little Girl viewlist. I think watching all those in succession would give someone a misleading idea about the show. I love Solitudes. See Trout's post for more coherent comments.

I think the characters in my head are veering away from the characters in the show. If I want to write more fic - which I don't have time to do at the moment, anyhow - I need to watch some eps again. It's funnny how that happens, isn't it? Although I guess the ones in my head are closer to how they are in the later seasons, because I've been more aware of them through redial_the_gate - but I still feel like I've kind of lost their voices and bodylanguage.

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Okay, that's what's in my head right now.