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Jan 18 03: endurance
Today I finished a project for the folks back at Clever Island—which means that I get to pick up a check on Monday! Hurrah. And I did another round of work on NYCD, which means…well, which means that I can someday hope to get a check for a little bit more, I guess. Sigh.
But I can endure. I was thinking about endurance today. One thing that you learn as a swimmer is how to survive really long swims, when all you can think is how you’d rather be back in bed or on a beach or reading a book or watching Farscape or anything other than doing a series of 400s in cold water at seven in the morning. What you do is you break it down. Here, you tell yourself. I’ve just gone halfway to the halfway point. Hey, and now I’m a third of the way there. And now I’ve gone halfway through the thing, which means that it’s all downhill from here, right?
Congratulations, folks. We’ve just passed the halfway point for the Bush administration. It’s all downhill from here.
Right?