170 over 105

Today is the official day 1 of “let’s get Lonita’s fat, but lovely, ass fit enough to climb an African mountain”.

I had my assessment at the gym.

I am not going to tell you how much I weigh; I don’t even know myself. I asked the trainer not to tell me. While losing weight is good, I don’t want my weight to be what I focus on. My goal is fitness. The weight loss will come.

However, I do know my blood pressure and my standing heart rate; and let me tell you, it’s a miracle I haven’t exploded all over something. My standing heart rate is 81 (it should be 60), and my blood pressure is 170 over 105 (it should be 120 over 80).

Avoidance of death is our main goal in life.

"[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” "

- “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

Saying that’s a fucking abomination doesn’t even begin to cover what I think of that sort of… policy.

(Source: fairtest.org)