Progress and Purpose
Jan. 13th, 2012 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckycanuckI did my Cert III exam and got 97% (though that's less impressive when it was an open book test and I was looking things up regularly.) Some of the questions were ambiguous and confusing, but it's behind me now.
Now it's the practical element. The due date is technically next Friday but it has been extended to mid February. I'm still going to try to get it done in time to go to Sydney to visit my parents who arrive next week. Things have been delayed by one of my trainer friends getting an injury and having to cancel some observation opportunities, but the manager of the gym is going to try to arrange a few things for next week.
There have been quite a few solid workouts this week, and I now have more motivation to keep up with future workouts. I have started a Twitter feed for my soon to be freelance training business (it still sounds odd to say that) and a Facebook page too. I'm going with Molon Labe Fitness as a name. It's a reference to the Battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and Persians (and to the movie 300.) In some ways it has become a personal motto of mine (though not because I'm a die hard supporter of gun rights as someone once assumed.) Also, I think it sounds sufficiently badass and fits my approach to training. Soon I will have business cards.
There is more news from JAQ. The last I heard there is a chance that the cancer has metastacised to her liver, she has a 50% chance at survival, she is unemployed and is appealing to friends to help with her medical bills (though after trying twice my donation can't be processed.) And despite all of this (or perhaps because of it) she has seemed very upbeat and focused. There is a sense of purpose in her life that is unfamiliar to me. Her purpose is simply to survive. There seems to be a wonderful simplicity to it. I suspect the numbness I feel in my gloom is not quite as present in her life.
As I said before, this is the first time I have had to contemplate someone close to me dying, and that person happens to be one of the bravest people I know. She is a fighter, and the "FUCK CANCER" t-shirt she is wearing on the front page of her cancer blog is a testament to that.
That cancer is going to wish it had never metastacised.
Now it's the practical element. The due date is technically next Friday but it has been extended to mid February. I'm still going to try to get it done in time to go to Sydney to visit my parents who arrive next week. Things have been delayed by one of my trainer friends getting an injury and having to cancel some observation opportunities, but the manager of the gym is going to try to arrange a few things for next week.
There have been quite a few solid workouts this week, and I now have more motivation to keep up with future workouts. I have started a Twitter feed for my soon to be freelance training business (it still sounds odd to say that) and a Facebook page too. I'm going with Molon Labe Fitness as a name. It's a reference to the Battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and Persians (and to the movie 300.) In some ways it has become a personal motto of mine (though not because I'm a die hard supporter of gun rights as someone once assumed.) Also, I think it sounds sufficiently badass and fits my approach to training. Soon I will have business cards.
There is more news from JAQ. The last I heard there is a chance that the cancer has metastacised to her liver, she has a 50% chance at survival, she is unemployed and is appealing to friends to help with her medical bills (though after trying twice my donation can't be processed.) And despite all of this (or perhaps because of it) she has seemed very upbeat and focused. There is a sense of purpose in her life that is unfamiliar to me. Her purpose is simply to survive. There seems to be a wonderful simplicity to it. I suspect the numbness I feel in my gloom is not quite as present in her life.
As I said before, this is the first time I have had to contemplate someone close to me dying, and that person happens to be one of the bravest people I know. She is a fighter, and the "FUCK CANCER" t-shirt she is wearing on the front page of her cancer blog is a testament to that.
That cancer is going to wish it had never metastacised.
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Date: 2012-01-13 11:05 pm (UTC)Also, I wish JAQ all the best. Anime has taught me that your willpower to do something is half the battle. The rest is just doing it!
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Date: 2012-01-14 01:29 am (UTC)Lessons from anime. I'll pass them on.
Congrats on the 97%!!!
Date: 2012-01-20 05:51 am (UTC)Re: Congrats on the 97%!!!
Date: 2012-01-21 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-03 06:29 am (UTC)