It is 7:40am and I have a final exam in a little over an hour. True and fitting to me, of course I haven’t studied. True and fitting to my slacker school, they have given all of the answers to the exam already so I’ll probably stare at them for about 15 minutes, regurgitate what I remember onto a piece of paper and walk out a happy camper.

Needless to say I also woke up early to finish some lab work that I neglected to do during the quarter for this class. Okay, not some, but practically the entire book. Most of it got done. A former flame who is into the computer networking field saw my away message and even offered assistance. We joked about nothing, and then he was off to the gym on a Saturday morning, his obsessive workouts that I admired but used to make me feel sorry for him.

On the flip side, my lack of exercising should make me feel sorry for me. I no longer have a gym membership because I defaulted on my credit card that the account was registered to. Regardless, I don’t have a job to pay for a gym, even when i did I didn’t go anyway. I eat either ice cream, cookies, or something else horrible and sugary to start my morning, and proceed to eat similar items throughout the day. My body is holding me down, by being so physically inactive I’m not able to do even simple things like concentrate or stay awake for long periods of time. Bottom line: I feel and look like shit.

I’ve decided that everyday I will make small steps to bettering myself. My goal: to climb the 46 high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains of the northeast United States. It could broken down into 46 day hikes if I had my ass in gear by spring, seeing as that the shortest round trip is about 14 miles.

My goal for today: no cigarettes.