Doing Good For Myself

i'm workin' on it.

on friday, Tess and i went to acupuncture, which i am trying to do more regularly. i've been having some lower back pain, and also trouble sleeping due to all the stress.

today we went to the Temple gym. i lifted weights and worked out all the muscle groups for about an hour. i reeeally didn't feel like going (too depressed) but i made myself go hoping i'd feel better afterward, and i did a little. hope to go more regularly, maybe even swim or take a class.

on the way home, we hopped off the subway at Allegheny so i could pick up a prescription from RiteAid, and then we walked home from there. during the walk, it started raining. i tried to envision my problems as raindrops rolling off my body. it didn't work as well as other rituals i've done, but i did see my overdue weekly response paper melting and smearing inside one drop, and karl's face rolling off my "RESIST & STRUGGLE" tattoo in another on a hard fast path to the ground.