Tonight, tonight

[dancerjodi]

First off, I apologize if my LJ posts are showing up as wide on your screen as they are on mine (and screwing up your friend's list making you scroll from left to right). Even in a diff browser it happens at home and at work from time to time. Does anyone have thoughts on how I can stop this from happening?

Tonight I'll be going to the gym after work. I'm sick of my body breaking down repeatedly because its not as strong as it used to be. I'm also sick of the number on the scale being higher than it used to be. I am self-conscious female, hear me roar!

I spent some time before work this morning searching for and printing off journal articles for my final report for this semester's class. I need to 'develop an empirically-based answer to a single research question using the general social survey with some bivariate and multivariate tests'. Woo.

Since the variable I've been studying all semester is dichotomous (support for sex education, yes or no) I can't use this for my final paper (we've only touched the surface of regression analysis and thus can only look at quantitative variables for this paper) I needed to find a new question to look at. I have a bunch of articles about work status and family structure/role and its effect on women's satisfaction or psychological health that I'm going to read tonight that will hopefully help me formulate a research question and various hypothesis related to that question.

Man my life is exciting sometimes. I'll be happier when all of this is done and I can focus on creating pretty things and going to summer concerts, ren faires and cons.

Comments

[dragonvpm.livejournal.com]

The only times I've noticed the wide entry symptom in your posts is when you have really long URLs in the post. The easy solution to that is to hide the big urls behind a standard <a href> tag. Other than those times I've never had a problem viewing your stuff.

I hear ya on the getting in shape. Getting tired of feeling increasingly decrepid is more or less exactly why I am really dying to get going on kendo (and hopefully one or two other martial arts) next week. If I don't have someone around to keep me on task it's way to easy for me to get distracted and not accomplish much while working out. Even worse, if no one is expecting me somewhere to work out it's even easier for me to find something else that "really needs to be done right now" so I put off working out indefinitely.

My scale is dusty though so that's never been a problem, but I'm a guy :). Good luck working out!

Fitness

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"I hear ya on the getting in shape. Getting tired of feeling increasingly decrepid is more or less exactly why I am really dying to get going on kendo (and hopefully one or two other martial arts) next week."

I really miss when I went to dancing 2x a week, yoga 1x a week and then the gym 3x a week. Then though, I wasn't in grad school :)

"If I don't have someone around to keep me on task it's way to easy for me to get distracted and not accomplish much while working out. Even worse, if no one is expecting me somewhere to work out it's even easier for me to find something else that "really needs to be done right now" so I put off working out indefinitely."

The above schedule worked for me when I was committed to go to those dance classes since we were prepping for a show and my husband and I only had 1 car which he took to work while I had to kill time after work waiting for him to pick me up (hence the gym came into play). After I got my car back when he got his own it was so much easier to find other things that I "had to do" instead.

"My scale is dusty though so that's never been a problem, but I'm a guy :). Good luck working out!"

I rarely use mine - I was prompted too actually because I scheduled a doctor's appt. for June and thought "oh yeah, they are going to weight me again when I show up, I wonder how things have changed from last year". Usually there isn't much change, this year there has been (which isn't a fun thing to acknowledge, though the change still is slight).

Thanks for the wishes of luck! Perhaps we can guilt each other into staying motivated? ;)

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

Does reading titles help you? (since I have no clue what you are doing despite all the details you provided...)

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/PI/index.jhtml

+Married +women +Psychological +aspects+"psychological health" +bivariate +multivariate

Research

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Does reading titles help you? (since I have no clue what you are doing despite all the details you provided...)"

I'm hoping the articles I printed off already will suffice (I'll find out tonight :) ). Luckilly my school has a good online search engine for journal articles where we can get the full text (not just the abstract) and print them out.

Here's hoping. Thanks for the suggestion though, if I need more I'll check out that site!

[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

the widescreen LJ posts just seem to happen from time to time. occasionally my entire friends list look like that. refreshing sometimes helps, or clearing the cache and restarting your browser will sometimes do it. i believe the LJ FAQ just says to refresh your screen.