the gym ; monday afternoon

[flickofthewrist]

It felt like it'd been awhile since Flick had been down to the gym. In reality, it hadn't been that long and he'd been getting exercise other ways but still, it was time to fall back into that routine so he didn't end up getting too doughy and soft. He'd save those moments for when he was behind closed doors.

Usually, he defaulted to flat out boxing when it came to the gym and the heavy bag but he was going a little different today. The Brazilian jujitsu classes he'd taken back at the academy had been in his head lately so that's what he was using today. It meant using his body differently, working muscles that didn't tend to get worked as much when he was just flat out punching the crap out of something or someone.

Which didn't take away how much he liked just punching the crap of some people, of course. It was a good time. He just felt like switching it up. He figured he'd slide into Krav Maga techniques in awhile just to keep that side of things fresh as well.

And then maybe he'd go to straight boxing. End with the fun stuff, why not?

[Open gym, open post]

Third Floor Common Room, Monday Afternoon

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Eleanor had signed herself up for a Philosophy class, assuming it would be interesting. It was. It just also made her mind hurt. She had been cooped up all weekend with the same book; she had decided to read in the common room today, in the hopes that the change of scenery might improve the matter.

The book she was currently coming to terms with was Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, particularly Meditation I, wherein Descartes began arguing that the senses could not be trusted and that very few experiences could be accepted as factual, except the bare fact of existence itself.

It wasn't that she disagreed, exactly; it was just that it was really disconcerting to realize that he was right. And to wonder if perhaps he was wrong about existence, itself, and to extend that outward.

She was highly interrupt-able, especially if you wouldn't mind hearing about epistemology.