Étude

This week started with a weight scare. I went shopping for some shorts and realized I don’t even fit into most of them. I knew I’d gained weight over the last few years but it was mostly muscle. Recently though, I realized I gained a lot of belly fat. I know I’ve neglected my workouts since we moved into our new apartment and throughout July I was mostly sedentary at home. I’m at an age where, if I let my weight go out of control, it might require a herculean effort to roll back. So I hit the gym 4 times this week, replaced my (usually big) lunches with protein shakes and walked ~5km every day to burn additional calories. I went to the studio only once and worked on my sculpture for ~6 hours, sandpapering it. I’m proud to see how much better this is than my first. I decided to name this something much more modest, so I’m calling it simply Étude. I finally finished The Claw of the Conciliator, the 2nd book of The Book of the New Sun series. I enjoyed this less than the first one but…