Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...
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gementI continue being too busy living to post, but it's the good busy.
I signed up for yoga near my house (Yogalife in Greenlake) exactly two weeks ago, a 30 day pass good for up to 30 classes. I've gone ten times so far, eleven if you count the day the teacher flaked. I'm having a blast, I have loved the vast majority of the teachers, and I get stoned daily. While my neck is still a mess of knots, I can feel incremental changes in my awareness of ordinary posture. "Oh! I should be just a little taller! That's better."
I'm also learning a LOT about how to do it safely this time around, since priority one is the ability to show up and do it again the next day. Step one: if it feels like I'm working or stretching my lower back at all, my lower back is doing too much. Step two: shoulders dropped, damn it, and neck tall. Even if I'm curled over in a ball. Everything else follows from one and two.
I've been unemployed a full month and I'm just now starting to feel caught up on home stuff, so the idea of getting a job offer doesn't make me cringe anymore. Two consecutive phone interviews from Yaycorp (redacted) for a taxonomist job which would be awesome awesome awesome. No news yet on whether I'll get a face-to-face, but I'm at the very least in the 'consider this person for next time' pool, and they hire in bulk.
We're taking on the landlord for repairs, which is incredibly emotionally stressful for me but needs to be done.
I finally got my damn laundry folded.
I got a new shrink 2 blocks from my house instead of 2 hours by bus. Sooo much better, and he's a semi-retired UW instructor and prolific poet. So mellow, so steady, it's a little unnerving. I find myself practicing extra mindfulness just to keep up with him at not doing as much, if that makes any sense. It's a good step for me.
I reorganized my writing wiki so I'll stop putting off transcribing. OK, I spent 30 hours doing so, but it was pretty out of control, and fixing it was a useful exercise in working with a legacy system. I need to see if I can put a comprehensible sample version out on my webpage as a portfolio piece or something.
I have two SQL projects on my plate (thanks, my friends!) - One is a simple "let's look at tightening this and write you a lot of useful queries" and the other is a full-on undercarriage for a software startup. That one, even if no money ever comes of it, will get me some fantastic and specific references for my ability to pick up technical and conceptual work and run with it.
I went to the mall for an eye exam, my first in six years. I get glasses! Just a teeny bit for computing. I tried on every frame in the place, then came home with 8000 new pieces of underwear gleaned from the nearby bigbox outlets.
It turns out if you cancel Rhapsody's $10/mo service, they offer you the $5 service which is exactly what Napster serves for $5 and is exactly the amount I need. The interface is at least 80% less sucky, so I'll see how much I use it. Today is brought to you by Dido, Moby, Carbon Leaf, Nat King Cole, Vienna Teng, and David Bowie. On shuffle.
I am distantly stressed by world developments, in the "people are hurting and I wish they didn't" way, but I'm in such a ball of self-maintenance right now that it seems even more weirdly distant than usual. (I have trouble listening to news because I get rage and grief out of proportion to my ability to do anything about it, so I generally safeword on direct input and only go to roundup sources recommended by friends.)
I signed up for yoga near my house (Yogalife in Greenlake) exactly two weeks ago, a 30 day pass good for up to 30 classes. I've gone ten times so far, eleven if you count the day the teacher flaked. I'm having a blast, I have loved the vast majority of the teachers, and I get stoned daily. While my neck is still a mess of knots, I can feel incremental changes in my awareness of ordinary posture. "Oh! I should be just a little taller! That's better."
I'm also learning a LOT about how to do it safely this time around, since priority one is the ability to show up and do it again the next day. Step one: if it feels like I'm working or stretching my lower back at all, my lower back is doing too much. Step two: shoulders dropped, damn it, and neck tall. Even if I'm curled over in a ball. Everything else follows from one and two.
I've been unemployed a full month and I'm just now starting to feel caught up on home stuff, so the idea of getting a job offer doesn't make me cringe anymore. Two consecutive phone interviews from Yaycorp (redacted) for a taxonomist job which would be awesome awesome awesome. No news yet on whether I'll get a face-to-face, but I'm at the very least in the 'consider this person for next time' pool, and they hire in bulk.
We're taking on the landlord for repairs, which is incredibly emotionally stressful for me but needs to be done.
I finally got my damn laundry folded.
I got a new shrink 2 blocks from my house instead of 2 hours by bus. Sooo much better, and he's a semi-retired UW instructor and prolific poet. So mellow, so steady, it's a little unnerving. I find myself practicing extra mindfulness just to keep up with him at not doing as much, if that makes any sense. It's a good step for me.
I reorganized my writing wiki so I'll stop putting off transcribing. OK, I spent 30 hours doing so, but it was pretty out of control, and fixing it was a useful exercise in working with a legacy system. I need to see if I can put a comprehensible sample version out on my webpage as a portfolio piece or something.
I have two SQL projects on my plate (thanks, my friends!) - One is a simple "let's look at tightening this and write you a lot of useful queries" and the other is a full-on undercarriage for a software startup. That one, even if no money ever comes of it, will get me some fantastic and specific references for my ability to pick up technical and conceptual work and run with it.
I went to the mall for an eye exam, my first in six years. I get glasses! Just a teeny bit for computing. I tried on every frame in the place, then came home with 8000 new pieces of underwear gleaned from the nearby bigbox outlets.
It turns out if you cancel Rhapsody's $10/mo service, they offer you the $5 service which is exactly what Napster serves for $5 and is exactly the amount I need. The interface is at least 80% less sucky, so I'll see how much I use it. Today is brought to you by Dido, Moby, Carbon Leaf, Nat King Cole, Vienna Teng, and David Bowie. On shuffle.
I am distantly stressed by world developments, in the "people are hurting and I wish they didn't" way, but I'm in such a ball of self-maintenance right now that it seems even more weirdly distant than usual. (I have trouble listening to news because I get rage and grief out of proportion to my ability to do anything about it, so I generally safeword on direct input and only go to roundup sources recommended by friends.)
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Date: 2011-03-16 09:42 pm (UTC)*hugs*,
'bou
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Date: 2011-03-16 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-16 10:08 pm (UTC)I had a tooth emergency-extracted today so I'm not very scheduling-capable, but could you email yours to me? I should have a clearer head Thursday or Friday:)
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Date: 2011-03-16 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-16 11:45 pm (UTC)Re: Thanks for Sharing!
Date: 2011-03-17 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-17 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-30 04:31 am (UTC)Also yay for all that other stuff (especially the laundry, though that's probably me projecting... the laundry Shoggoth is getting out of control. I can feel my sanity slipping whenever I so much as glance at it. 'Swhy I leave the lights off when I'm getting dressed in the morning...) Okay stopping rambling nnnnnnNOW!