I’m a Magpie
My first week of yoga, I was feeling very virtuous. Beer? Nah, I’m trying to stay hydrated. Up early for yoga class? Nothing I’d rather do. The only problem is, I spent the last three years living pretty indolently, exercising only incidentally (the hills on the walk to and from work, sitting up to grab some more corn chips, etc). So today it’s catching up to me. I was up and at yoga at 8:15, and I sweated through and twisted into all sorts of different shapes (which, in a room heated to 110 degrees is a bit like trying to wrestle with a dolphin), but since them I’ve been pretty much useless — barely pulling together enough to get schoolwork done, take a nap, and drink yet more water (being a dolphin takes a lot out of you). There’s only so much virtue a girl can take. |
I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.
Momeester
November 16th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I still think hot yoga is weird, but I suppose I should try it.
tom clark
November 21st, 2011 at 3:55 am
Right at this moment — having spent much of this totally frigid the night trying to rescue a wee cow’ring timorous beastie from the mighty hunter cats — wrestling with a dolphin in a 110 degree tank is sounding perhaps more appealing than one might guess.
Virtue may well be over-rated.
In any case, this is just to be sending along a friend thing.
And hey, Nora, by the by, we’ve been having this ongoing debate, would Nora mind if I put up a friend link to her swell little private party?
I’m of the “no, she wouldn’t mind” school, but of course I’ve been of the wrong school more than once in my brilliant career.
But since the cats are all busy at the moment, I think I’m going to sneak in and “just do it”. (You can always give a negative squeak, and then it’ll be paws-off.)
Nora
November 24th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Of course I don’t mind. Maybe it’ll inspire me to dust things off and start posting again.