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Tag: anxiety

  • The Optimal Starbucks Breakfast

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    Optimization is the millennial affliction. (There was a trenchant Buzzfeed essay a while back that delved into how this impulse drives our generation to burnout.) Since seeing that insight articulated in plain, stark language, I’ve been more conscious of its truth in my own life. Take today’s breakfast stop at the local Starbucks. I lived…

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    Kate
    Starbucks cup

  • The drip, drip, drip of existence

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    I’ve recently started catching up to Season 3 of Elementary. The series remains great – brilliant, even, especially when we consider the self-assurance and deftness with which it ventures into topics and themes beyond the usual scope of weekly procedurals. The Eternity Injection, one of the episodes I watched yesterday, demonstrated this fearless precision well in…

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    Kate

  • Running by myself

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    Most people in my neighborhood equate a good fitness regimen with waking up bright and early. Peering out the window at 6 or 6:30 AM, it isn’t rare to see people dressed in singlets and shorts walking back home from the nearby track. Such early starts make sense, though: many of these people are in their thirties, forties, or…

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    Kate

  • “Underwear collected”: Anxiety and running

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    I started the Couch to 5K running program today. I’m using the C25K app in tandem with the excellent Zombies, Run! (which really only means I have both apps open at the same time during a run), and so far the combination of music and continuous item collection has helped keep me motivated. Gamification as a fitness approach…

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    Kate