Monday, July 16, 2007

Ever since my depression started lifting, I've been on a mission to get back into shape. Because I had been sedentary for so long, I knew this wasn't going to be easy. To ensure that I wouldn't burn out quickly, I thought it wise to start off slowly with low-impact exercise. I took up yoga aaa flag and banner gain, which proved to be highly therapeutic both mentally and physically. I also discovered that swimming was an ideal form of exercise. Not only does it get all of the major muscle groups working all at once, but it puts vigorous demands on the heart and lungs without putting any strain on the body! For someone like me plagued with leg pain exacerbated by exercise, it is a dream come true. Furthermore, I've found swimming to be surprisingly relaxing. I can't tell you how nice it is to get in the pool, completely surrounded by the blueness of the water, and think of absolutely nothing except how peaceful you are at that very moment. Underwater, all traces of my anxiety seem to disappear! With this renewed energy my passion for dancing magically returned. When I am not stretching to my heart's content, doing swimming laps, sweating on the elliptical machine or crunching in some abs exercises, I am happily belly dancing to infectious Arabic rhythms. Ultimately I want to get back in shape so that I can be the best belly dancer that I can possibly be. Ah, it feels so good to have found my long-lost passion again. It is as if I had been lost and found myself again.

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In lieu of actually blogging, which since my father moved in i somehow have less, not more time and energy for, i bring you this: Penn Jillette's mug on a box of Chinese "Viagra". This is traveling the internets, but i got it fun poker rom The Bulldada Newsblog (an impeccable record of the dumb shit that happens daily), who got it from AdLand .

Think you can time the stock market's ups and downs and beat a buy and hold strategy? U.C. Berkeley economist Hal Varian says "Trying to outguess the market is a sucker’s game": Sometimes the Stock Does Better Than the Investor That Buys the Stock, by Hal Varian, Economic Scene, NY Times : Stocks have been a great investment in the last 80 years, with an average return of about 10 percent a year. But have investors in the stock market done as well as stocks? Surprisingly, the answer is no. The average dollar invested in the stock market in those years has earned only about 8.6 percent a year. The discrepancy between stock market return and investor return is examined by Ilia D. Dichev, a University of Michigan accounting professor, in a paper ... in ... The American Economic Review, “What Are Stock Investors’ Actual Historical Returns? Evidence From Dollar-Weighted student debt help eturns.” To understand the difference between a stock’s return and an investor’s return, consider someone who buys 100 shares of a company at ... $10 a share. A year later, the share price is up to $20, and the investor buys 100 more shares. Alas, the investor’s luck has run out. By the end of the next year, the price has fallen back to $10 and the investor sells his 200 shares. A buy-and-hold investor who bought at $10, held the stock for two years, and then sold at $10 would have had a zero return.

Ever since my depression started lifting, I've been on a mission to get back into shape. Because I had been sedentary for so long, I knew this wasn't going to be easy. To ensure that I wouldn't burn out quickly, I thought it wise to start off slowly with low-impact exercise. I took up yoga again, which proved to be highly therapeutic both mentally and physically. I also discovered that swimming was an ideal form of exercise. Not only does it get all of the major muscle groups working all at once, but it puts vigorous demands on the heart and lungs without putting any strain on the body! For someone like me plagued with leg pain exacerbated by exercise, it is a dream come true. Furthermore, I've found swimming to be surprisingly relaxing. I can't tell you how nice it is to get in the pool, completely surrounded by the blueness of the water, and think of absolutely nothing except how peaceful you are at that very moment. Underwater, all traces of my anxiety seem sexual offenders in my neighborhood o disappear! With this renewed energy my passion for dancing magically returned. When I am not stretching to my heart's content, doing swimming laps, sweating on the elliptical machine or crunching in some abs exercises, I am happily belly dancing to infectious Arabic rhythms. Ultimately I want to get back in shape so that I can be the best belly dancer that I can possibly be. Ah, it feels so good to have found my long-lost passion again. It is as if I had been lost and found myself again.

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