My Constant Companionscopyright Rose Welty
colored pencil on Ingres paper
(note that this was done from life, without my glasses on!)
I think I can finally declare myself an uber-nerd. Tell me what you think after you hear this true story.
The other day I was thinking of shirking the daily exercise routine on the elliptical. (OK, that's making me sound better than I am: I am trying to get into a daily habit of working off the pounds on the elliptical, I'm nowhere near daily yet. Perhaps ten times in the last few weeks.) But then I remembered, the Holbein book.
I've been treating myself to a read of my new book only when I am exercising. So, I quick changed my clothes and happily hopped on and went to sweating. As I got off later, disappointed that I had to stop reading and gawking and start stretching, I realized it. What sort of nerd are you if you motivate yourself to exercise by reading art history? Not even with a musical backdrop, just flat out reading. That, my friends, is an uber-nerd for you.
Even after this revelation and noting the social impacts, I was disappointed to realize that I have finished the Holbein book. Thankfully, I've got a few more of those "can't put it down" art history books waiting for me and the elliptical!
Have a good weekend everyone, whatever your reading pleasure!
The other day I was thinking of shirking the daily exercise routine on the elliptical. (OK, that's making me sound better than I am: I am trying to get into a daily habit of working off the pounds on the elliptical, I'm nowhere near daily yet. Perhaps ten times in the last few weeks.) But then I remembered, the Holbein book.
I've been treating myself to a read of my new book only when I am exercising. So, I quick changed my clothes and happily hopped on and went to sweating. As I got off later, disappointed that I had to stop reading and gawking and start stretching, I realized it. What sort of nerd are you if you motivate yourself to exercise by reading art history? Not even with a musical backdrop, just flat out reading. That, my friends, is an uber-nerd for you.
Even after this revelation and noting the social impacts, I was disappointed to realize that I have finished the Holbein book. Thankfully, I've got a few more of those "can't put it down" art history books waiting for me and the elliptical!
Have a good weekend everyone, whatever your reading pleasure!
2 comments:
You comments make me smile.
I am steeling myself to get back into the exercise routine of the treadmill or elliptical. I use an iPod, listening to podcasts on art and knitting!
Move over for your northern ubernerd kiddo!
Jeanette, you make me laugh! I've done a small bit of knitting, but I can never stay with it long enough to remember what I'm doing. And now my spare moments are all sucked into the art/blog world.
I have an MP3 player, but find that it just distracts me from reading! I'm not hip enough for podcasts.;-)
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