If you didn’t already know, car dealerships open extremely early.

I had to go to the service center of the manufacturer of my dad’s car to get a repair and some maintenance done this morning, and when I called to make an appointment, they said that they’re open from 6:30 AM.

When I asked if I could schedule the appointment for around 10:00 AM, they said “I’m not sure if we’ll have enough time to finish everything by that time. What about 8:00 AM?”

Which more or less implies that they open super early when not many people are awake, and close super early during the time people are actually awake and active.

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Topic #167: One health story making the rounds is how sitting too much all day will kill you. Since you are likely seated as you read this, don’t panic. We want to help.

(I actually cut off the topic right there, because the remainder of the topic tells you to do some push-ups, and my arms are too sore from martial arts training earlier today and I probably couldn’t do more than 3.)

That infographic seems to be more directed at the stereotypic fat American than it is at me. It claims that the problem is that people keep sitting more than 8 hours a day outside of their job and it’s causing people to become obese and more vulnerable to health problems.

Fortunately, I’m not at all obese – I’m actually on the lower end of having a normal body weight. This is even after I don’t really watch what I eat; as long as something doesn’t have a blatant amount of fat on it, I eat it without thinking twice. I never watch television, so that completely rules me out from deteriorating my health while sitting on the couch in front of the TV. While I’m at university, I walk a few miles a day just from walking from my apartment to lecture halls, from lecture hall to lecture hall, and from lecture halls back to my apartment.

Overall this information is most likely not going to change how I act (and even if I were to change, it would be difficult to find something that I could change because I’m a student and I spend a lot of time sitting as a part of what students do), but it’ll be useful to keep in the back of my head to make sure that my sitting doesn’t become too extreme.