dichroic | retiring

I had dinner with a colleague tonight, no time to erg before it and too full to do it afterward. I’m still ahead of the game, having done a half-marathon Sunday before leaving, but I’m not thrilled about having missed my first day of erging since Thanksgiving. On the other hand I think I do really need a day off (and should get off the ‘puter v. shortly and get extra sleep). Erging tomorrow shouldn’t be an issue; the hotel gym hours are erratic so I’m just hoping they open early enough Saturday so I can erg before catching my train to Schiphol.

I’ve been seriously considering “retiring” my navel piercing for a while now. There’s no real reason to keep it: my abs are not in shape to show off or for me to like looking at them, the piercing’s not really enhancing anything. Ted doesn’t find it particularly enticing. And it’s a bit of a hazard – I catch it sometimes on the erg handle, and higher-waisted pants or skirts can irritate it. It’s so much drier here than in Taiwan thatall of my skin is rebelling, and probably because of that the piercing’s actually been a little tender for the past couple of days. So basically, I have some reasons to ditch it and no real reason to keep it – except that it *hurt* to get it and I hate to have wasted that pain and that it’s the only body-modification I have other than one plain-vanilla hole in each earlobe. Then again, navel piercings aren’t exactly edgy these days – so 1999.

I think what I’m looking for here is actually either a good reason to keep it (unlikely) or a push to give up on it.

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.