my old nemesis, we meet again

As you might have heard, the weather is unpleasantly hot in LA. Usually, things cool down at night enough to be comfortable sleeping, but, lately, not so much.

So, I am tired all the time and completely unmotivated to do anything productive. All of my creative juices have dried up in the heat. Almost the only thing I'm willing to leave my apartment for is air conditioning.

I have always had a problem with inertia. I am supremely capable of ignoring things that need to get done in favor of lazing around doing nothing. In recent years, I've gotten a lot better about it (new job, working out, etc.), but ever since the heat wave started, I've been up to my old (non-)tricks.

Here's what I should have/could have/would have gotten done if it weren't for the heat (my god, the heat):

1. Do the dishes
2. Get my car washed
3. Color my hair
4. Clean the bathroom
5. Laundry
6. Read my library books (it's too hot to READ, people)
7. Change the sheets
8. Vaccuum
9. Unpack my new phone and replace my old crappy cordless

And I'm sure that there are more things that I'm too tired and cranky to think of that belong on the list.

I'll leave you with this image: Last weekend, I fell asleep in the library LIKE A HOMELESS PERSON because it was the first quiet place I sat down and was comfortable in a week.

better to have played and lost...

So, I played in the WSOP Ladies event last weekend and pretty much got my ass handed to me. I didn't play great (I'm still shaking my head over a few of the moves I made -- what was I thinking?) and I didn't get very many playable hands. That's pretty much a one-two punch right there.

But I'm still glad I went. It was so cool just to be there and play.

Would have been nice to make the money, though. Really, really nice.

poker, i don't even...

While my results haven't really picked up, I'm feeling much better about my poker game. I don't know if the return to carbs is really helping my game or if it's all in my head, but, in the end, it doesn't matter. My analysis is much clearer and my decision-making is back on track.

It's a good thing, too, because I am going to be playing in the WSOP Ladies Event next Sunday. I am both excited and nervous about it. I was worried because I don't have too much live tournament experience, so I went down to Hollywood Park today to get my feet wet and work out the jitters at their rebuy tourney. While I didn't make the money there, I got what I needed out of it. I know I'm not going to embarass myself away from the computer keyboard, so I can concentrate on the poker next weekend.

If today is any indication, my biggest challenge is going to be to translate the aggression I'm capable of online into the live setting. In other words, I need to not be a chickenshit.