2007-04-01 Jogging

When I was younger, I used to be in pretty good shape. I went to school by bike, no matter if it was windy, rainy or if it snowed. Eight kilometers in the morning, eight kilometers in the afternoon, 3000 kilometers in total each year.
Today, I started to get some of my shape back. Not that I've got a potbelly to get rid of (in fact I'm on the edge of underweight), but my attitude has become lazy. So I figured I should go in for a little sports. And as much as I enjoy scuba diving, it does not count in this respect. I'm talking about endurance sports here, and so I was running today. (Or is it "I've been running"? I mean the one without any police chasing me.) It must have been approximately three kilometers, and it made me sweat my brains out. Boy have I become a pansy! But I saw parts of the town I've never been to before. There are some spots with quite a good view, and they're all uphill, so the way back was the easy way. Who knows if I had made it home, had I started going downwards.
I'm planning on doing this at least twice a week, let's see if I can keep it up.

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In Battlestar Galacticas season three cliffhanger, four of the Final Five have been revealed. I'm churned upside down. (Spoiler ahead!) What will Sharon say? And Kelly. Kara seems to be alive after all. And how come Saul wasn't tested by Baltar when he still ran the Department for Cylon Detection, as he used to call it? Tory and Anders might have appeared out of the blue, but the Chief was there from the start. And Saul and the Admiral go back a long time. How could the Cylons have created them so fast? What caused the fleetwide energy breakdown? Damn, this cliffhanger is just as exciting as the last one...

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Here's the reason why I want to work in New Zealand. It's a quote from the book A Short History of Nearly Everything, written by Bill Bryson:

In practice, the process seemed to involve about the same level of scattered activity, and about as much stimulation, as a trip to a laundromat. Bob seemed very happy, however; but then people from New Zealand very generally do.

Sounds promising, doesn't it?