learning on my off day

then again, when it comes to learning, is there ever really an "off" day?

i recently joined a blogging community designed to support each other's health conscious endeavors. for some it's about losing weight, others focus on healthy eating and there are also aspiring fitness enthusiasts. i was reminded by one particular person that you can pick up copies of workout videos from anywhere, including a college library. i had completely forgotten this extremely cost effective option for broadening a workout routine. as a gym hater, this is right up my alley. so i popped over to langsdale's page to check out their selection of videos

...and was quickly distracted by new releases... oops :)

out of curiosity, i started with a broad spectrum search: every video in every format from every available school. not the best idea, but helpful nonetheless. i found that we have a copy of the hurt locker, which i've been dying to see since the pre-oscar bigelow versus cameron hype. umbc has a copy of a documentary i'd never heard of that looked fascinating. one of the other university's in the consortium has a copy of michael jackson's this is it. and on and on and on... i realized i wasn't getting far on the exercise front so i started a second search. using keywords this time, i was given a list of approximately 250 titles. i happily started selecting from this list, while still selecting from the "everything" list. after 10ish pages, i decided to check the number of movies that had made it to the special list

...and i learned my second thing of the day: don't run more than one search at a time. it confuses the system...

i ended up with two items on my "selected list", only one of which i had actually meant to select. i booed at my computer while back tracking to the search. but search number one did not display. instead i was looking at page one of search number two, which was open in another tab. double boo. today has not been my day so i closed both windows rather than give myself a headache by going through the lists again. luckily, i'll be on campus for class tomorrow. i'm going to swing by the library during my break to peruse in person :) i'm definitely snagging the hurt locker, if it's there in 12 hours, and a few others. so this weekend, you'll find me on my couch enjoying birthday cookies, a martini and a movie marathon in my favorite lounging pj's

after my workout, of course ;)