very simple

So I finally did start going to the gym on Saturday. and I’ve been going every day since then. I had forgotten how great I feel afterwards. I think it’s the endorphine high. and then you get that *good* kind of soreness a little while later that makes you want to curl up with a good book. Next saturday I’m actually going to meet with a trainer. My goal right now is, in one year, to take another bicycle trip somewhere. I think that’s both realistic and something that will motivate me.

I rejoined the gym recently. I haven’t gone yet, but I figured that joining was at least a first step. And today I bought a shiny new lock for my locker. I was in really good shape a few years ago, even bicycling across part of France. and then I started working full time, and I just sort of let myself go, and gained some weight. Now I’ve decided that in a year, I want to take another bike trip, so I’m going to get back on (the) track.

I think it’s a totally psychological issue for me that during the week, I can’t help but hit snooze until I have to run around like a headless chicken in order to get to work on time, but on weekends, I’m wide awake hours before I need to be anywhere.

My name is Sam (as if you couldn’t have figured this one out by looking at the title of the thread). I’m currently 29, living in Manhattan, and working (alot). I’m a lawyer, and I work at one of those really big monolithic law firms that everyone else blames for all of the world’s ills. but I like it, so that’s all that matters. I’m pretty liberal, a registered democrat, and I do think that the Constitution guarantees a right to privacy through the ninth amendment. I used to care about social causes a lot more, but then I discovered that I care about paying the rent (and my crushing law school debt) a little bit more. Plus, once I met a few of those really noble public interest lawyers (ok, more realistically, once I dated one of those guys and he had some friends), I realized that they were just as greedy and self-involved as all the other lawyers I knew. They just wanted praise and adulation for all of the sacrifices they were making instead of money. and they liked to think that they were better than the rest of society because they really knew what was going on.

But I’m not bitter (ok, one last dig – it’s also really easy to be noble when your daddy is the vice president of an insurance company and still footing all of your bills when your 31!).

Ok. I’m done. I promise.

Hmmm. what else. I have a dad, a brother, and a stepmom who are all great. My mom passed away a few years ago at the way too young age of 49. I have great friends, who rarely get on my nerves (trust me, that’s impressive!), and I tend to procrastinate. a lot.

In other news, life is pretty good these days, the sun is finally shining, and I have an entire weekend where my only concrete plans are to get my haircut and go to a picnic.