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so yesterday's yoga class was awesome. i feel like i'm finally making progress (at least a little bit) with my body. yesterday i was able to (almost) get my leg completely behind head. i actually hovered in the crow position for about half a second (but my feet were off the floor for that half a second!). when doing the sun salutation, i can jump my feet back to the four-legged stick and then after downward dog can jump my feet back up to my hands again (instead of walking/hopping them up and down the mat, like i was doing all semester). AND yesterday i did a headstand for the first time. i only needed minimal help from my teacher (i can't get my ass in the air!); she helped me kick up so i could lean my feet against the wall. and it was cool.
of course, that was the last yoga class of the semester. i really want to go to triad yoga and see if i can sign up for a class there, but elan takes yoga there, and she says they're on a 12-week session plan right now, and they're in the middle of the session, and that prices have gone up. i don't really want to have to join a class mid-session, if they'd even let me do that. the cheapest course of fitness action for the summer would probably be to just join the uncg gym for the summer session at the alumni rate. i was thinking about taking some martial arts thing with carra (from self-defense), but that might be even more expensive than yoga. sigh. at least at the uncg rec center, they do have aerobics classes. i like the class thing better than i like sitting on a bike reading a magazine.
in other news. yesterday i went to the bar to meet everyone after workshop. we went to the local mexican place on tate street, which is kind of new and which i hadn't been to before. i got a strawberry margarita for only $3.75 and chicken quesadillas for $4. a pretty good price, and the quesadillas weren't bad either (although the margarita tasted too much like tequila and too little like strawberry for my taste). while we were there, melissa and adam (the mfa melissa and adam, not any of the ones you other folks know) announced their engagement. we were all congratulatory, but it was kind of weird. i like melissa, and i like adam. but some of the surprise that i felt when they first got together is persisting. i mean, i always sort of thought they just had good sex but would eventually move on. it's strange to imagine them together long term and having kids and stuff. i guess if they're happy, i'm happy too.
more and more of my friends are getting married and engaged and stuff. and every time there's a new joyous announcement, people always ask me if i'm thinking of getting married. i'm running out of cute jokes about my ringlessness. actually, i'm sick of people asking me ANYTHING about the future. when is graduation, what are you doing this summer, when are you moving to boston, do you have an apartment yet, are you looking at jobs, what kind of job do you want, what are you going to do????? shut the fuck up, all of you. i will fucking let you know when i figure my shit out, believe me. i know people are just interested and concerned and stuff, but it is seriously not helping.
the one good thing about my family/friends back home not being particularly fond of jorn is that they don't ask if we're planning to get married. they ask about all the other stuff, but not that, thankfully.
ANYWAY, this was supposed to be a happy post. and it is a happy post. because i did okay on my self-defense test--after arguing with dave on one question, i believe that now i have 10/10 on the written test (although i got 26/30 on the skillz test, which was the lowest grade in the class, even if it is a B). AND i got fred's signature on my thesis yesterday, and christy's this morning, so this afternoon after work i am going directly to the graduate school and DROPPING OFF MY THESIS. i will be so glad when it's out of my hands. i will sing The Done Song.
zelda notes: i hate those stupid fish people! stealing all my goddamned stuff. little fuckers. i want to blow up their stupid island.
tonight: watching x-men with rhett and jorn and maybe elan and some other people over at rhett's house. tomorrow: catching a matinee of x-men 2 with jorn. probably doing a bunch of other stuff too.
oh, and the self-defense girls all want to hang out sometime. we set a tentative date for may 13, a tuesday at the end of finals. not like i have finals, but they do. and we can't go to a bar, since a few of them aren't 21 yet. poor babies! but i'm really excited, i like the self-defense girls.
of course, that was the last yoga class of the semester. i really want to go to triad yoga and see if i can sign up for a class there, but elan takes yoga there, and she says they're on a 12-week session plan right now, and they're in the middle of the session, and that prices have gone up. i don't really want to have to join a class mid-session, if they'd even let me do that. the cheapest course of fitness action for the summer would probably be to just join the uncg gym for the summer session at the alumni rate. i was thinking about taking some martial arts thing with carra (from self-defense), but that might be even more expensive than yoga. sigh. at least at the uncg rec center, they do have aerobics classes. i like the class thing better than i like sitting on a bike reading a magazine.
in other news. yesterday i went to the bar to meet everyone after workshop. we went to the local mexican place on tate street, which is kind of new and which i hadn't been to before. i got a strawberry margarita for only $3.75 and chicken quesadillas for $4. a pretty good price, and the quesadillas weren't bad either (although the margarita tasted too much like tequila and too little like strawberry for my taste). while we were there, melissa and adam (the mfa melissa and adam, not any of the ones you other folks know) announced their engagement. we were all congratulatory, but it was kind of weird. i like melissa, and i like adam. but some of the surprise that i felt when they first got together is persisting. i mean, i always sort of thought they just had good sex but would eventually move on. it's strange to imagine them together long term and having kids and stuff. i guess if they're happy, i'm happy too.
more and more of my friends are getting married and engaged and stuff. and every time there's a new joyous announcement, people always ask me if i'm thinking of getting married. i'm running out of cute jokes about my ringlessness. actually, i'm sick of people asking me ANYTHING about the future. when is graduation, what are you doing this summer, when are you moving to boston, do you have an apartment yet, are you looking at jobs, what kind of job do you want, what are you going to do????? shut the fuck up, all of you. i will fucking let you know when i figure my shit out, believe me. i know people are just interested and concerned and stuff, but it is seriously not helping.
the one good thing about my family/friends back home not being particularly fond of jorn is that they don't ask if we're planning to get married. they ask about all the other stuff, but not that, thankfully.
ANYWAY, this was supposed to be a happy post. and it is a happy post. because i did okay on my self-defense test--after arguing with dave on one question, i believe that now i have 10/10 on the written test (although i got 26/30 on the skillz test, which was the lowest grade in the class, even if it is a B). AND i got fred's signature on my thesis yesterday, and christy's this morning, so this afternoon after work i am going directly to the graduate school and DROPPING OFF MY THESIS. i will be so glad when it's out of my hands. i will sing The Done Song.
zelda notes: i hate those stupid fish people! stealing all my goddamned stuff. little fuckers. i want to blow up their stupid island.
tonight: watching x-men with rhett and jorn and maybe elan and some other people over at rhett's house. tomorrow: catching a matinee of x-men 2 with jorn. probably doing a bunch of other stuff too.
oh, and the self-defense girls all want to hang out sometime. we set a tentative date for may 13, a tuesday at the end of finals. not like i have finals, but they do. and we can't go to a bar, since a few of them aren't 21 yet. poor babies! but i'm really excited, i like the self-defense girls.
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Date: 2003-05-02 11:15 am (UTC)From:And yeah, I still remember how your mom FREAKED when you told her I gave you the worry ring. That was sooo hilaweous.
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Date: 2003-05-02 01:43 pm (UTC)From:As for the "what are you going to do next?" question - this is weird, because I estimate that I'm nearly twenty years older than you are - but that's almost exactly where I am. If my mom asks, "Any news, dear?" one more time I'm going to scream!