New Year
Since the U is closed (I can access my offices, labs, and animals of course, but the exercise building is closed.) and the local track is also closed, my wife likes to go to our community's Planet Fitness, and I can go with her for free. So, it will be on the treadmill later this morning. I am also hoping to do some of the weight training I am vowing to get back into.
Not sure what the remainder of the day will be. Perhaps I will work on syllabi and my LMS's. I am not sure.
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Contentment Score = 5 (This score can span from 0 - 10). As I have not yet started much of the new year and there is not a lot going on, I think a 5 is a reasonable starting point.
Pipe Craving Score = 7 (This score (like before) can span from 0 - 10). It is interesting that my thoughts before bed remain in recalling pleasant pipe memories. They help me feel tranquil at the end of the day. I am not sure if such a drift into memories would be helpful during the workday or not.
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Professor, perhaps I'm over-analyzing, but I'm wondering whether there's an interesting aspect of your PCS that I hadn't considered previously. Thinking about what you've written in the past at different PCS levels, I'm wondering: would a low PCS score ironically correlate with less contentment? It seems that you derive genuine joy from your tranquil thoughts of pleasant pipe memories, such that your optimal PCS wouldn't be in the 0/1 range, but rather would be as high as it could be without severely tempting you to indulge. A low PCS would suggest depression or ennui, and a 10 would suggest that you're on the verge of an un-reasoned indulgence. But there's presumably a number in-between, where the cravings stir contented and happy memories rather than stir you toward unreasoned old instinct. So I'll be hoping that today's "7" is a good news number for you!
Off to a good start re. your resolutions, or at least your blogging resolution.
I don't know if pleasant memories can be as good as the real thing, but they seem to comfort you. Strength training would be great for me as well but would require buying weights or going to a gym, which I've never been motivated to do.
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