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Work Report - December 2009

Fitness Videos

December 30th 2009 08:12
Anyone who watches television will no the dreadful feeling of being hounded - yet again - by someone promoting the best diet supplement or the latest in gym equipment (in your own home!) or the latest and greatest and most celebrity-filled exercise video. It seems as if everyone and his pet monkey now has a celebrity fitness video available, so I was amused to read Tanya Gold's piece in the Guardian on four she'd reviewed - and found wanting.

I think I've mentioned the Oxycise videos we used to use back in the days when we'd get up in the morning and stretch, sit, kneel and roll around on the floor in order to make ourselves as skinny as the presenter. She wisely surrounded herself with half a dozen unfit people of various shapes and sizes who plainly struggled with her fitness regime. They were there, no doubt to make you feel good about the fact that you'd never look like her. She could lie on the floor with her arms stretched out straight above her head - not up in the air, but flat on the floor. Impossible


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Non-Profit Study Online

December 23rd 2009 08:45
Last year I did my first bout of University study. I've done other tertiary study before, some Polytech units and at least one full-year course where I did a Certificate in Residential Child Care.

But that was quite some time ago. The paper I did this year, as I've probably mentioned in this blog before, was on basic Research, and was an online paper. I've consider doing another one at the beginning of 2010, but at the moment I'm not convinced that the topic is quite what I'd be interested in...and worse, there's an actual real-live exam! Unlike the paper last year which was all done on the Internet, with assignments and so on. Assignments I can do, exams I ain't so keen on


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Afternoon Nap

December 9th 2009 06:51
A nap in the middle of the afternoon is great for reviving energy.

A nap in the middle of a meeting may have the same effect - but may not be looked upon with favour


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Getting the Chair Right

December 5th 2009 08:24
Back in the days when I worked for Delta, I remember there seemed to be a lot of concern about the office furniture - the chairs in particular. The company had an on-site nurse who would visit at least once a week, and amongst her jobs, it seemed, was that of advising when staff were sitting on chairs that weren't good for their posture.

The young lady who worked next to me got herself a brand new chair this way, and if I'd worked there long enough, no doubt I could have been in line for one myself


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