don’t be a jerk

I was watching “The OC” tonight on my Tivo. That last sentence kinda makes me want to kick my own ass. It doesn’t get better. See:
 
I was totally into the first season, and I didn’t immediately get into this season cause I was caught up in stuff, but I pretty much watch every week now. Anyhow, Benjamin Mckenzie’s character, “Ryan”, has his own pool house and today I noticed a wide screen LCD television in his room. All from people that aren’t his real family.
 
On top of that, none of these kids seem to ever attend class. And I keep watching. It’s so glamorous to me for some reason.
 
Also, there’s a guest character who’s supposed to be a lesbian. She’s hot. It’s bullshit. I’ve never seen a lesbian that hot before. All the lesbians I’ve met - you could tell that they were lesbian, nahmean?
 
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I started Muy Thai classes this week, otherwise known as Thai kickboxing. Went three days in a row. They’ve been going easy on me since I have no experience, but I’ve bruises up and down my shins and feet.
 
After roughly 6 months without regular exercise (the push ups I did during “Proof” don’t count) this past week has made me realize:
 
1.) I never felt like I was going to die, so I’m still fairly athletic, especially when I don’t smoke. I could possibly be more athletic if I stopped drinking the astounding amounts of alcohol that I do, but yeah, right, like that’s going to happen.
 
2.) while I’m not as muscular as I was when I was younger, I’m a helluvalot denser. As the years go on, I’ve become very solid and, from what I can tell from the mirrors, almost gnarly. We did this drill today where we basically beat on each others’ midsections, and my classmates and I found that I can take a surprisingly large amount of punishment to the torso. However, punch me in the head or whack me in the shins, and I crumble. That can be taken care of, tho, by an intensive regimen of shin and skull conditioning.
 
3.) I have very powerful straight frontal attacks (ie straight punches and front kicks.) My lateral attacks (hooks and roundhouse kicks) are average at best. Kinda like my personality, no?
 
4.) I am shamefully inflexible around the groinparts. I’ll kick the shit out of your legs, but if I gotta lift my leg above waist level, it stops being a weapon, and starts being more of a liability.
 
5.) After taking Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Thai Kickboxing, I never ever want to get into a fight with a Brazillian or a Thai person. I will, however, fight a Swiss guy in a second. Those fucking Swiss pussies.