So today is day one of my three-day Blueprint Cleanse, a three-day juice cleanse designed to fit in to your busy NY schedule and life — I’ll be writing about it for Gothamist. Wish me luck, and please forgive me in advance for any strange behavior on my part for the next few days . . .
v. 2.0
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Restaurants Against Hunger
Food, Fashion, and a Good Cause::Restaurants Against Hunger’s Celebrity Kick-off Party!I’ll be on the couch tonight, but if you’re feeling better than I am — head to this party! It’s for a good cause and my friends Nicole and Lynn are helping to organize it.
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Sweet Treats
Congrats to Rachel, Nichelle, and Alizinha, who got a shout out for their Cupcakes Take the Cake blog on Food and Wine mag‘s blog, Mouthing Off. Life is not so sweet for me as I am fighting off the plague and losing. Tonight is the first night of my level 2 swim class — I’ve graduated from Efficient Technique to Technique and Endurance — but I think I’m going to pass since I can’t breathe out of my nose at the moment. A night on the couch might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Fingers Crossed
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t come down with the plague. I got back home yesterday afternoon and the sore throat and sniffling began almost immediately. It’s like my body was waiting for me to get through all these trips and then gave up. I’m also still waking up at 6 a.m. — perhaps some leftover jetlag or something. I’m going to bed by 10 tonight.
Pictures are up from both the Tuscany trip (although this is Cinque Terre, not Tuscany):
(follow the links to the full galleries).
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A Quick Turnaround
Got back from Tuscany last night and am completely screwed up sleepwise. Regardless, I’m headed to Lancaster, PA tonight for Nathan‘s museum show debut at the Lancaster Arts Museum, where he is slated to be the artist in residence for the next month. Be back tomorrow!
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Disturbing
To me, the most terrifying thing about "It’s Not You, It’s Your Apartment" is not that the stuffed bear that sits on my bed could possibly be destroying my dating life (although I really don’t think it has had any impact whatsoever) — it’s the fact that this man writes dating advice for Match.com for a living. Yet another reason I’m convinced that online dating is not ultimately for me.
And on that note, I’m off to Tuscany tomorrow night for a week, so odds are I won’t be posting. Have a great week!
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The Big 200
Just had my last swim class tonight (at least for level 1). We did a time trial for 200 yards, which is twice as long as we had ever done and I did it in 4:02, which was actually quite good based on my earlier 100 yard times. I’m convinced that it was due to my altitude training in Denver . . .
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That Mountain Air
I’ve been very good about exercising here in Denver. I swam laps one day, and have hit the treadmill for the past two days (granted I’ve been eating out every night, so it’s probably a wash, but that’s another story). The 45 minutes of swimming took a lot out of me, but I wasn’t too surprised about that — I’m still at the very beginning of building up any sort of endurance — but my first day on the treadmill, I could barely handle the interval workout I normally do at home. I ordinarily spend 45 minutes on the treadmill, adjusting the speed and incline quite a bit, and my workout includes several rounds of sprints alternated with jogging to recover. After my first sprint on the hotel treadmill, I had to slow down to a walk to recover. I couldn’t figure out what was going on — maybe I was dehydrated, maybe I was tired, or maybe it was the second martini I had had with dinner the night before? Then, over dinner last night, someone mentioned the altitude, and how she had been warned to stay hydrated. Another mentioned that she was told not to exercise at all because she might have trouble with the altitude. Aha! Mystery solved.
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Thoughts Floating Through My Mind Today
On the 6 train at 5:30 p.m., packed in so tightly that I am practically nose to nose with the guy next to me (if I were taller), and brushing up against at least three other people: I have had plenty of dates where I haven’t had this much physical contact.
Off to Denver bright and early in the morning for another fun do-gooder law conference. Will likely post from the road.