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July 24, 2012

How I’ve tested my stress response today

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Back from vacation. Real post coming soon. But in the meantime, a quick list! How I’ve tested my stress response today: 1. Continued working through the 89234082348 emails that have accumulated in my inbox while I was on vacation. (Note to self: do not ever take vacation ever again unless retiring immediately after. Too hard to come back.) 2. Took my client up on the offer to try a Crossfit class in the parking lot during lunch (yes, in the Dallas heat). It turned out to be “Every Minute on the Minute” (which made me feel like one of the …

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November 28, 2011

Blissing out in Peruvian paradise

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After my night out in Pisco, I immediately went to bed when I got home – and did not set any kind of alarm for the next morning. Bliss! This is my favorite part of vacation. Despite this, I still woke up at 7am (probably because I had gone to bed at like 10pm). All the better to get a jump on my workout for the day before the sun really came out! While it was perfectly light out when I woke up, Paracas seemed to always be foggy in the morning – so much that every day I thought …

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November 20, 2011

Buenos dias para Peru!

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The last week was crazy for me, trying to wrap up all my outstanding work before vacation (I was still frantically trying to get last emails out while my plane was sitting on the tarmac as I was off to vacation) – which is why I didn’t blog about how psyched I was about my vacation. But here I am, having the time of my life – in PERU! So yeah, remember that new year’s resolution to visit four new countries this year? I pretty much killed that one. In order: The Bahamas, Switzerland, France, St. Maarten, Japan, and now …

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September 6, 2011

No physical labor on Labor Day?

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I found it ironic that for the Labor Day holiday, the day that I had free to actually toil away at the gym all day if I wanted to… the gym was closed. Well, not closed, but all classes canceled – which for my purposes was basically the same thing. I’ll admit that part of my frustration came from the fact that I had purchased a one month membership to a fancy schmancy gym through a group buying site and this was the last weekend of my membership. I wasn’t going to heckle the gym about closing for Hurricane Irene, …

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April 14, 2011

Productive Day in St. Maarten

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I woke up at 5:50am today, when my alarm went off for my morning run… and decided that I was on vacation and didn’t need my sleep schedule dictated by some arbitrary “running concierge.” Seriously, 6am? In a vacation spot like St. Maarten? I mean, that time makes sense if you’re at a hotel in New York, or something, where people have to get to work, but I highly doubt that most visitors to a resort property in St. Maarten have a set schedule for the day that necessitates an early run. When I woke up 90 minutes later, it …

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