Exercise

I had my third fitness assessment today at 24 hour fitness. William and I have been going for three months. I went down in everything for the last one, calipers and weight and total BMI, but this time I only went down in one caliper measurement on my arm. What, my arms are getting skinnier but not anything else? Melissa the trainer gave me some suggestions as to how to change up my routine to get out of this plateau. She suggested using the stairstepper, which is exactly like stairs except they move. I tried them out today for 20 minutes and went 60 floors. I was pouring sweat. So I guess that will get something accomplished. Then she said a total body resistance workout twice a week (weights) and increase the intensity of the elliptical, which I am doing now for around 30-50 minutes. So at least it gives me some things to shoot for. Melissa is moving so I will try Katie next time.

I've been watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. It's very good. I love the president and Starbuck, and Commander Odama. All very well acted and produced. The editing is really good, too. It makes me wonder what my old friend Dave the editor is up to. He edits TV shows in Canada. He used to be one of the editors for La femme Nikita, and edited the first show of 24.

I slept all right last night, except for the couple of hours I was up reading in the middle of the night. So far I'm impressed with how well I'm coming down off the sleep med. It hasn't disrupted my sleep as much as I thought it would.

Nothing on the agent front as far as PHOTO goes yet. It's only been one day but I'm so eager to hear something! Not sure what to do with my corkboards full of chapter cards for PHOTO. If she's interested in the ms. then I should leave them up. If not, I should take them down and start putting some up for SEA CHANGE. I guess my first step is printing SC out but I dread it since it takes so long, uses up so much ink, and has to be babysat the entire time. I have to do it though. Otherwise I'll never get started. It's going to be interesting doing this revision. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to go about it, other than making good use of note cards and going through chapter by chapter making changes. Maybe that sounds obvious, but it's tricky with a novel when so many things are interconnected: if you change one thing it can have an effect on something twenty chapters later. The Butterfly Effect, I suppose.