For those of you who have been on board the diary since day 1, you may remember a reference I made to the emotional roller coaster ride that is weight loss. Well today was was one of those seriously fast downhill sections. In fact this post birthday week has been a bit of a struggle on a number of fronts.
As I mentioned the other day, my knee is in pretty bad shape to the point where today I began to entertain the possibility of an early total knee replacement. It's inevitable for me in the long run but doctors are loathe to do them in patients under 50 due to the limited life span of the new joint. But unless I can get some relief in another way it almost feels like the only option available to me. I've pretty much been unable to do any exercise this week because of the pain so the weekend doctors appointment is becoming more critical by the day.
Adding to the frustration is my general lack of enthusiasm and will power this week, particularly today. I have eaten reasonably well since the weekend until today and I'm sure I'll pay the price at the Saturday weigh in.
I guess it just emphasises that this is a year long journey and is bound to have some speed humps along the way. I think with Uni beginning this week I've realised that this year is going to be tough. It seems all I'll be doing is study and working for free and while its all part of the grand plan, it does grind on you sometimes when you give up a great deal of free time to work for nicks.
It's not all bad though, I do enjoy a lot of the work and I feel like I'm having a few wins building a reputation that may lead to a job soon. I think I just need to find my mojo again tomorrow and get my head back in the game, after all this journey has 10 months to go.
This week has been an exercise in frustration though with respect to work experience. I signed up for a uni unit called "workplace learning" that gives credit for completing 80 hour internships. My grand plan was to use this angle to secure a broadcast internship for the semester as this is an area I'm particularly interested in. But today those hopes have been dashed as a four week negotiation with the ABC and 4BC radio both yielded no result. It means at this stage I have no internship secured and will now have to beg the Courier Mail to give me an extra week in sport to fulfil the unit requirements. This would be a good result for most students but I've already done over 300 hours for the paper and really wanted to experience broadcast journalism. I have a meeting next week with the 4BC news director so I guess I'll just have to wow him with my winning personality then.
OK enough whinging about life, work and study. Now I'll whinge about the weather. How bloody hot is it. It's March already and I ready for a cool change. Enough of these mid 30 days and 25 degree nights. Don't the weather gods realise I have no air-conditioning.
Right......OK...... now I'm feeling better. I've think I've got that massive sooky whinge out of my system, so it's time to bloody harden up and get back on the horse (I do love metaphors).
Time for a rabbit food Friday and hopefully a less than terrible weigh in on Saturday.
Bye for now.
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