Thursday, 3 February 2005

gym

Precor Elliptical 30' @ 12/20 resistance, 20/20 incline, 20' two 2-lb. handweights, 4025 strides, 425 calories, spm 134.2. Six whole abdominal leg lifts, which exercise might be called "captain's chair."

redefining

I don't often talk about my job. Work, yes: Dot Org, the occasional coworker, commuting, rathering to be downtown. Job, no.

(Except, aha! At Freak Train Monday night one of the performances was the Mouse Man from the 16th Street. He was just as unfunny on-stage as on-street with the disadvantage of not being able to walk away from him. He's someone I don't miss from downtown, along with the anti-choice Abe Lincoln dude.)

Today as soon as I arrived I got a call that, admittedly, would not have come to me if any of the research staff I support had been in. How many states require a supermajority to pass their budgets? Though I didn't know the answer off the top of my head (I so want to be Bunny Watson and know all sorts of things off the top of my head), I knew exactly where to find the information, in less than a minute, while the person waited on the line. Most of my afternoon I spent compiling 50-state per capita and percent of income rankings of property tax revenues.

Most of the researchy stuff I do depends on my MS Office proficiency rather than my genius for analysis, but that proficiency shouldn't--and doesn't--limit me to the support track. I wonder.