Rant 11 February 2004: Just do it
I’ve always hated Valentine’s Day. It’s one of those manufactured holidays that is shot through with guilt and consumerism. Unlike Halloween, my favourite holiday, where all you need to have fun is a...
View ArticleRant 12 March 2004: Hit me with your best shot
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt...
View ArticleRant 13 April 2004: Adapt or die
Pandas suck. Oh sure, they’re cute and fuzzy and we’re supposed to care about them and save them, and biodiversity is rapidly being eliminated worldwide, and this is genuinely a global concern, and...
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Rant 14 May 2004: Weed the garden
Some of you more astute folks have probably noticed that this rant is a bit late. Among other reasons, I’ve been spending the last few weeks playing in the dirt. You see, I am a gardener. I’m not a...
View ArticleRant 15 June 2004: Against perfection
My mother-in-law sent me this article some time ago: Fitness babes a turnoff: Mac researchers find women less motivated to work out when watching perfect 10s By Jennifer Morrison, The Hamilton...
View ArticleRant 16 July 2004: All roads lead to fitness
I was having dinner with the charming and witty Phil Caravaggio the other day, and naturally, as happens with gym nerds, the conversation turned to training and nutrition. We talked about this research...
View ArticleRant 17 August 2004: Ohmigod I am sooo stressed!!!!!!!
Stress. It’s a fact of life in most jobs. We hear a lot about how busy everyone is now, how time pressured, and most of all, how stressed out. To some degree the pace of life has increased. However,...
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Rant 18 October 2004: The Ritalin Kid
Canadian Thanksgiving, for you folks not living in Soviet Canuckistan, is in October. In my opnion, this is a better time than the American November Thanksgiving. It’s more clearly harvest time, the...
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Rant 19 November 2004: The fitness fascist
My husband and I joke that we work in two of the most misunderstood fields. As a nuclear physicist, he gets subjected to Homer Simpson and “glow in the dark” jokes ad nauseam. Either that or someone...
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Rant 20 December 2004: Process, not product
I get very many kind emails that assume I am some kind of champ. Big Mistress smooches go out to the guy who wrote me to settle a bet with his buddy about how much I could squat: both proposed numbers...
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