The Happy Gardener

I just thought I'd write another quick post abt my running over the last two days. After last Saturday's 20 mile run, my legs were in bad shape. The ITB on my left leg was acting up and my right shin hurt - it really hurt. I came home and pretty much limped around all of Sat'day and Sunday. On Monday, I got myself a calf/shin support wrap - a Velcro contraption that goes around my shin/calf and started using it right away. I also started icing my shin. And I rested. I did absolutely nothing on Monday and Tuesday except go to work, come back and do some household chores. On Wednesday, my legs were feeling better and I decided to test them out with a short run. I played it safe and decided to run on the treadmill. This way, if my legs hurt after running a couple of miles, I was not a couple of miles away from my car :) I started out a little stiff and my shins hurt a little but after a mile or so, it started getting better. At around 3.5 miles, I was warmed up and feeling...

Telugu folks are amazing. They create a website called idlebrain dedicated to T elugu cinema and all its starts. They absorb the minutiae of the lives of movie actors. They show up for the first-day-first-show of al (most)l movies - rain or shine. They follow the making of the movies, go through all the publicity/shooting photos, listen to the songs as soon as the audio is released, speculate about the movie, read the previews, read the reviews, watch the movie independent of whether the review was good or bad, then agree with the review and continue to gather further information about the movie. And get this, they actually keep track of boxes of reels/prints of the movie as it travels around the world to get a to a theater. I was supposed to watch the preview of this movie " Chirutha " tonight with a few of my friends. We got there around 9.30 pm for the 9.45 pm show only to find a little note posted at the movie hall's door saying that the movie was going to start at...

I just spent 30 uncomfortable minutes icing my right shin and my left knee. Icing is not a fun activity. Firstly there's all the mess involved in putting the ice in a plastic bag and trying to hold it steady over the injured area with one hand while trying to attach it to this area using some contraption with the other hand (in my case it was another plastic bag). It dripped - dripped on the footstool, on the couch , on the coffee table until I gave up and just let it drip over my carpet. And then there's the iceburn . They ( those very knowledgeable internet folks) tell you that the discomfort/burning sensation lasts only for a a couple of minutes and then the area becomes numb. I don't completely agree - it burns for quite a while. All in all, icing an injury is not a fun week-night activity. That done, I moved to step 2. Step 2 is applying a pain reliever/anodyne cream called " Eutheria ". My parents brought this from India and when I sprained my neck during o...

So I finally decided to get down to writing that first blog today. Having spent about 2 hours in the morning and 2.5 hours this evening fighting rush hour traffic around Boston (long story), I gave up on working out today. So I decided that I'd sit down and write that first blog. Instead, I ate cookies - multiple cookies, one after the other. Then I had to eat some Cheetos just to get the sweet taste out of my mouth. I had just decided last evening that I've been eating too much junk food over the last few weeks and that I would give up junk until I was done running my marathon at the end of October. And here I was - going through junk by the pound. Oh well, I'll just eat my way through everything that I have at home and never buy junk again and live happily ever after. Yeah right, like that's going to happen. Anyways, continuing my story: after zipping through those cookies I caught the last 10 minutes of an episode of Two and a Half Men (that's a funny show). No...