It's not intense pain, but my whole body hurts, and has done since I got out of the water on Saturday after going to the aqua-Zumba class. Its not ordinary muscle soreness from doing different exercise. I wonder if I am so heavy that after a brief, blissful hour of lowered gravity I am hurting from re-entry. Everything I do hurts, even lying down. Too much gravity. I suppose there might be some effect from donating blood on Friday. Maybe a double whammy or something.

Or maybe a low-grade virus of some kind?

Or the class being in the water caused you to use core muscles that don't get much action in the ordinary course of things. After my first Pilates class, I ached from the inside out, which was not like the pain from, say, overdoing it in aerobics class.

I suppose that is possible. If so, then I suppose it'll clear up on its own in a week or two. ETA This was in re: the virus idea. Though, it can apply as well to the core problem as well.

Andi, I just want to hug you. Getting in shape hurts a helluva lot more than getting out of shape, that's for dang sure. My knees are hurting for the first time in my life. There should be some reward for starting an exercise program, to keep us going, but the body just bitches about it.

There should be some reward for starting an exercise program, to keep us going, but the body just bitches about it.

God, right? My favorite thing is how, if you're not really careful, you can hurt yourself and then not be able to exercise. Fuck you, body. I'm doing this for you.

YAY SUZI!!!

Congrats, Suzi!

I getting very frustrated with how many phone calls and how many different people I need to contact to see a doctor about my hand, which is extremely painful and my thumb joint isn't working properly.

Also, William Shatner is now sharing anti-vax conspiracy theories on Twitter and complaining about all the mean autistic people bullying him.

Gah - following the promotion, now I'm struggling with my own case of imposter syndrome. My workload has been light lately and despite a bunch of people who say they would love to have me help them, another solid project has yet to come through for me.

I have been invited to the Project Controls Summit next week. For my sector, I am the lowest level invitee. And then today I got asked to be on a panel for one part of the meeting. Both invitations should bolster my confidence in what I do, but I feel like an utter fake.

I'm tryign with twitter and now I'm caught in this reply and I'm over my head because 1) I can't figure out exactly the right way to reply and 2) I don't know how to counter anything they are saying.. grrr now I feel dumb...