Thursday, June 30, 2016

A few pounds








You have probably noticed that I have lost a few pounds recently. While I do not usually look favorably upon comments about my appearance here on clerkmanifesto, especially as it is a written medium and you can't see me, I cannot help but understand. Three pounds is a lot! It is between one and two percent of my whole body weight. So first of all let me reassure you that I do not have cancer and am not dying from some wasting disease. To be honest I don't even know why you would think that! I am in excellent health, and we can entirely attribute my recent three pound weight loss to a great increase in healthful living.

But since you have brought up my weight loss I feel I should clarify. I do not have a scale. I have not weighed myself in ages. When I say I have lost three pounds it is based on the looseness of my pants. My pants have grown a bit loose. My guess is three pounds of pants looseness. I don't usually like to talk here about my pants, but since you have asked, I have begun to employ a belt.

I don't love wearing a belt. What can I say? Sometimes there is a cost to clean living.









6 comments:

  1. OMGAWD, what if you gave birth while napping or attentatively reshelving?!

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    1. An odd, disturbing thought. Do you think it was a litter of kittens?

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  2. OMGAWD, what if you gave birth while napping or attentatively reshelving?!

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  3. If you had kittens, mon ami, they would be even more adorable than most kittens!
    Have you looked between the cushions or maybe back by the Science Fiction stacks? Are you even concerned? !

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  4. If you had kittens, mon ami, they would be even more adorable than most kittens!
    Have you looked between the cushions or maybe back by the Science Fiction stacks? Are you even concerned? !

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    1. I've gotten used to your double posting. I know that when I see in the workings of my blog that the all-time count of my blog comments has gone up two, it is not because I have suddenly grown so popular that two people are commenting. No, it means that you have commented, which is even better than popularity.

      I'll look in the Science Fiction. I'll bring some milk and fish. I would not want kittens to go hungry.

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I respond to pretty much every comment. It's like a free personalized blog post!

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