Tired, and a little soreish

I guess "soreish" is probably not a word, huh? Too bad. Language evolves. And you're now a witness. Don't scoff. Show some respect for my achievement in evolving the language. And don't tell me "evolving" can't be used in that sense. Language evolves. And you're a witness now, twice in one paragraph! Pretty special!

Perhaps I should be more respectful of my students. They're constantly evolving the language in the most remarkable and unpredictable ways! I've always thought they were simply illiterate. All the time, though, they've just been actively evolving the language.

Anyway, today was a pretty hard day. Had class, spent several hours grading and writing assignments and planning my new Conspiracy Theories course for this fall, and then went for a ride and run. Did 30 miles bike and 9 miles run again. At the end I was a good bit more tired than I usually am at the end of that workout. Must have been bad biorhythms.

Does anyone other than me still talk about "biorhythms?" That used to be a regular topic of discussion. But I don't think I've heard anyone talk about it for years. Anyone other than me, that is. I'm probably just not paying attention, though.

[excuse me for a minute....]

Oops. I'm embarrassed. I've never really thought in detail about biorhythms -- what people say they are. I've always thought the notion seemed reasonable. So many things in life and the world are cyclic (cyclical?)(went and looked it up -- synonyms, except that it seems cyclical is apparently more frequently used with respect to economic or financial cycles).

Anyway, I went (when I excused myself) to Google to look up Biorhythms. The first hit was for "Biorhythms Plus! 2008" software. Unfortunately, although the software was described as outlining everything you need to know about your biorhythms, which would have been OK, it also said it has info you need about astrology and numerology. Astrology and Numerology. Right there with biorhythms. Are biorhythms really on the same level as astrology and numerology?

Next stop? Where else but Wikipedia? Fascinating! Apparently biorhythms is pure bunkum, but there's a "legitimate" branch of science called "chronobiology" -- the study of biological cycles. Long term cycles like migration, reproduction and menstruation, and short term cycles like REM sleep, and the "nasal cycle," whatever that is.

So all this time I've talked about biorhythms, but perhaps I've actually meant chronobiology.

I didn't read enough to know whether science approves of my impression that I'm "with it" more on some days than others, even when I've had similar amounts of sleep and stress. That's what I've meant by biorhythms all these years. Today was definitely a down day, chronobiologically. ;-)

Or perhaps I just didn't eat right over the last 36 hours. I definitely know what I eat makes a huge difference in how I feel when I run or ride. I never noticed it as much when I was just biking, because -- I think -- running is harder (you can coast on a bike).

[Listening to Turandot. Love opera. What I mean is that I love opera. Not that Turandot is a love opera. But actually Turandot **is** a love opera. So I guess I meant that, too.]

[Now that I think about it, pretty much ALL operas are love operas.]

[Opera also is a bike brand. A spinoff of Pinarello. Beautiful bikes. If you haven't looked at high-end bikes lately, they are becoming almost works of art as much as functional machines. (Don't believe me? Go look up the Pinarello Montello FM1, and try to tell me it doesn't look like a piece of sculpture.) I really want a good bike. The problem is that it's gonna cost me thousands of dollars to get a bike that I really want. Can't justify that right now.]

And speaking of eating, I used the last of my Bragg's Aminos today when I was George Foremaning my chicken for lunch. (I love verbing words.) Gotta get more Bragg's. It's the best. Thanks to some friend of mine (who was that?) who introduced me to Bragg's. ;-)

But now it's really late and I've got to do a training session early tomorrow morning. So it's bye-bye blogland, hello slumberland.