I find listening to music on my mobile device (an iPod nano, purchased new in April after various misadventures You might remember from a previous post) very isolating. In an uncomfortably scary way. I'm insensitive to aural stimuli so I cannot monitor my environment like I like to. It turns out I use my ears an awful lot when I navigate the physical and social world. Listening to podcasts somehow does not have this effect. Probably because songs are more solid sound than a conversation. Anyway, it's great for when I want to utterly dissociate from my environment, but that is very rare (despite what You might think, loyal reader).

I honestly cannot even believe my employer. Most of the time. It is a horror.

Things that have changed since I started tri-training:
- I walk up stairs Like A Champ
- I am superexcited to go to the pool to practice what W teaches me. Seriously. I want to practice all the time.
- I am really fatigued, like, constantly
- I throw the frisbee farther (still not, sadly, always in the right direction)

Yesterday I determined that the reason I like staying at home and watching American TV shows is so that I can be around people who are like me for a while.*

Even listening to Polish radio these days makes me angry. Angry/alienated.

* to be clear, I like this LESS than throwing the frisbee around with K.