yesterday, i knocked out all of the essential dailies, and it feels great. i rocked out a daily blog post and a photo post on the way in to work, and i worked through some original content on the fiction blog on the commute home. i don’t know how i would get all this writing done if it weren’t for my 45-minute commute each way every day.
on lunch break, i met up with palak and we had our weekly photo shoot, which went well except for a couple of hitches i can talk about in my aar (after-action review if you’re new here) tomorrow. i would’ve loved to knock that out today, but i’m going to have to finish the edits tonight since i didn’t have time this morning.
after work shanima and i headed to her parents’ apartment for our weekly dinner and a movie. we watched an old bollywood flick that had actors i like but was so ridiculous. at one point, early in the movie, the central anti-hero got into a fight with some chinese thugs and there was a crouching tiger hidden dragon-style flying kung fu battle that was clearly trying to capture the magic of that movie. then, a later sequence was a scene-for-scene ripoff of the lobby fight in the matrix. the guy was even wearing the same trench coat and sunglasses as neo. gotta love the audacity of bollywood.
we never finished the movie but i’m pretty sure that it ended the same as all bollywood flicks: the anti-hero gets the girl, the comedic relief characters go back to their lives with more appreciation than they had before, and the bad guy loses. as formulaic as it is, i still love those movies.
when we got home, i almost went to bed before remembering my commitment to complete 100 pushups on every day that i don’t have something else planned out. i knocked out the first 40 no problem, but then things got more difficult. from 40 to 50 i was ready to quit, but then from 50 to 65, i found new energy. 65 to 80 i started to feel doubt and the old excuses creeping in (“you’ve done good already, why rush to 100? do 75 today and more tomorrow; build up to it!”). i shut that shit down and kept going. 80 to 90 was tough but not unbearable, and 90 to 100 was where i had to force my muscles to keep working against their will. the final rep was a bit sloppy, but not to the point that i didn’t feel like it counted.
im going to keep knocking out 100 push-ups on my off-days for now, and might even just add 100 push-ups to my dailies from now on, with the exception being post-arm day. i should also add 100 crunches or something similar to balance it out. it doesn’t take that long and it can be done right before bed, so there’s really no excuse.