Pilates and Temptation

Last night I went to my first Pilates class -- which turned out to be mat-based Pilates rather than the kind that uses medieval torture equipment. It was not what I had expected: more like Iyengar yoga than anything, except gentler, and with New Agey music that kept quoting Saint-Saens. Some of my muscles are complaining, but I found it pretty easy and quite restful.

Last night I also gave into temptation: I had a corned beef sandwich. For some reason (hormonal?) I found myself craving red meat, which I stopped eating ~1996. This morning I feel queasy, headachy and unsettled. Fairly clear cause-and-effect.

Edit to add: I also slept pretty badly and had some weird and unsettling dreams, including one set airside at an American airport where they wouldn't let me leave: high-heeled fishlifter came to my rescue with teleporting superpowers. Or maybe that really happened. Who can tell?

This morning I left home in the dark for the first time this year. I've been getting into werk as late as possible, but today had to drop off car for servicing. This 'dawn' thing I have read about is really rather pretty. If only it happened every day*.

So I am in werk early, all set to print and sort barcodes again because the site claims they only received half of the ones we sent before Christmas.

*Lately, 'dawn' seems to involve a slight lightening of the grey. But today it's sunny! Yay!

Modern Music

1. I like this 'energy' thing I have nowadays. Despite early start and vexing day, I had sufficient pep not only to do some housewerk (washing machine repair bloke coming tomorrow: it would be good if he could find the washing machine) but to go swimming. And whilst walking to the pool I realised that Old Zen Stone needs updating, as it is still full of Christmas music. And fishmen.

2. Puritan Blister, my usual source for weirdo mashups, not updated since October. Waaah!

3. HypeMachine still going strong. And links to ...

4. ... Today's Best Discovery: the Plug Awards site -- "proud to bring the independent music community together" -- with full-track samples of all the nominees. Which is good, as swisstone has been keeping Emma Pollock a secret from me.

5. Today's Other Discovery: Old Zen Stone <> Zen Stone Plus, and ne'er the twain shall meet. Laptop will not recognise Stone Plus after recognising Old Stone. Nothing a reboot won't fix, I suspect, but slightly inconvenient.