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...Guilty, with an explanation. As Kafka demonstrates, Murakami's Japan is a land of truck stops, rock music, Ray-Bans, Hollywood movies and workouts at the gym. But for his youngish, hip, history-oblivious fans, this is Japan. More than previous Murakami novels, Kafka embraces nearly the entire Western canon, with learned digressions on Beethoven, Schubert, Chekhov, T.S. Eliot and pantheons of ancient Greeks. It's an education in a box, much like the small but mysteriously well-stocked Takamatsu library where Murakami's young Oedipus finds a job as live-in caretaker...
EXERCISE If you've been inactive, try walking briskly or gardening for at least 30 min. most days of the week. To drop pounds, according to the guidelines, you may need to hit the gym...
Compulsive gym visits. This type of procrastination, while great for your calves, may leave you exhausted and unable to complete work later in the day. Women can typically be found procrastinating on the elliptical, pretending to multi-task by reading magazines like Glamour, Vogue, Cosmo or Teen People. Toting such high-quality publications creates a false sense of productivity, thus lessening the guilt associated with avoiding work. Even if you do poorly on finals, you’re going to be one toned mama...
Grazing in the dining hall. The gym-goer’s worst nightmare, this student eats his or her stress in the name of delaying work. The grazer typically arrives in the dining hall at 5 p.m. and moves from table to table over the next three hours as his friends, acquaintances and total strangers slowly but surely abandon him. The grazer will spend much of the meal with his mouth ajar, cursing his excessive workload, and may grow angry if you interrupt his tirade. He is later spotted hovering over the cream cheese at Brain Break...
...Dallas mom Lori Bannon turned to another online school, Laurel Springs in Ojai, California. Bannon, who has a Harvard medical degree, didn't want to compromise the education of her daughter Lindsay, 13, an ?lite gymnast who spends eight hours a day in the gym. "Regular school was not an option," says Bannon, "but I wanted to make sure she could go back at grade level if she quit gymnastics." Laurel Springs' enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers...