Life's A Show
Nov. 25th, 2007 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe
Weight: 164.4 lbs.
Time: 35 minutes
Distance: 3.21 miles
Speed: 6.5 mph
Calories: 331
I goosed my speed up to 6.5 mph for five minutes, just to see if I could handle it. It was a good stretch, and I handled it just fine. I could definitely do with drinking more water, though. Almost made three and a quarter miles this time around, though I think I might tone it back for my runs on Wednesday and Friday.
Today I'm grateful for all of the comforts I have. Ryan and I were watching 28 Weeks Later this afternoon and I couldn't help thinking what it would be like for society to...just stop working, for whatever reason. What if we can't find a way around Peak Oil? What if a supervolcano erupts? What if we get hit with a really big earthquake, even?
Part of this comes from The Mist as well, which explores what happens to people when we lose the sense of order we've placed on the world around us. We get scared when the things we've come to expect stop happening, or our lives stop making sense in the way we'd like it to. Disliking the rain comes from an expectation to be dry. Disliking the Apocalypse comes from the expectation for the way things are to continue at least until we die.
Could we ever truly be mentally prepared for a sudden and irreversible change in our way of life? Could we roll with it if there were suddenly no electricity or cars, no job to go to and bitch about? How crazy would we get in our search for some reason, some way to fill the vacuum such a loss would create? It's just something to think about.
In the meantime, I have a fairly hot shower to get to.
Time: 35 minutes
Distance: 3.21 miles
Speed: 6.5 mph
Calories: 331
I goosed my speed up to 6.5 mph for five minutes, just to see if I could handle it. It was a good stretch, and I handled it just fine. I could definitely do with drinking more water, though. Almost made three and a quarter miles this time around, though I think I might tone it back for my runs on Wednesday and Friday.
Today I'm grateful for all of the comforts I have. Ryan and I were watching 28 Weeks Later this afternoon and I couldn't help thinking what it would be like for society to...just stop working, for whatever reason. What if we can't find a way around Peak Oil? What if a supervolcano erupts? What if we get hit with a really big earthquake, even?
Part of this comes from The Mist as well, which explores what happens to people when we lose the sense of order we've placed on the world around us. We get scared when the things we've come to expect stop happening, or our lives stop making sense in the way we'd like it to. Disliking the rain comes from an expectation to be dry. Disliking the Apocalypse comes from the expectation for the way things are to continue at least until we die.
Could we ever truly be mentally prepared for a sudden and irreversible change in our way of life? Could we roll with it if there were suddenly no electricity or cars, no job to go to and bitch about? How crazy would we get in our search for some reason, some way to fill the vacuum such a loss would create? It's just something to think about.
In the meantime, I have a fairly hot shower to get to.
