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new year's resolutions - by Ava - bookbear express

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Hello. My back hurts cause I biked after not biking for weeks. I’m an idiot who always forgets that activities aren’t interchangeable. Turns out you can’t just swap skiing for biking and biking for running and expect your body to not notice! This is not an auspicious start to 2021, since my resolution this year is to

Hello. My back hurts cause I biked after not biking for weeks. I’m an idiot who always forgets that activities aren’t interchangeable. Turns out you can’t just swap skiing for biking and biking for running and expect your body to not notice! This is not an auspicious start to 2021, since my resolution this year is to exercise for 45 minutes every day. I will now insert some anti-exercise quotes so I can make fun of myself. Mark Greif describing exercise as “punishment for our liberation” in his essay “Against Exercise.” Byung-Chul Han describing how neoliberalism encourages us to…

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