Keeping in Touch
Because I want to keep in touch with you, my readers, and stay closer to the blog, here is the tiniest of updates on life since Thursday. Yesterday I took off from work so I could prepare my syllabus for the summer course I am teaching, starting Tuesday. This is my first time ever teaching summer school--it will be four nights a week, for six weeks, on top of my nine-to-five job. After that I will take a week off from everything. I am looking forward to the immersive experience even though I know it will be exhausting. Also, fewer students (only ten, I think), more continuity.
Also yesterday, I took a three-mile walk, trying out the new shoes I bought which are actually running shoes--the salesperson in the store assured me that I could use them just as well for walking. (Since they only sold running shoes in this particular store, I knew she had an angle, but I was set on getting shoes right then and there, and I decided to trust her.) Then, while scanning the magazine for retired people (!) in my doctor's office, I read that one should make sure to buy shoes specifically for walking, not running, if one is only planning to walk. Oh well. I still didn't want to take the time to return the shoes and look for others, so I took the plunge and laced them up (mixed metaphors? or mixture of metaphor and nonmetaphor?) for a walk yesterday. I think they were fine--very cushy actually.
After that, I unrolled (for the first time) the yoga mat I bought some time ago for at-home practice and popped in a yoga CD that I received as a present from my sister, did the 25-minute "power yoga" workout. I was pretty pleased with the experience--nice to have an alternative to going to class and to see that I could do most of what the soulful, half-naked practitioner was doing, despite not being seated in the middle of the desert with mountains in the background.
Now it's Saturday early afternoon and I am running off to visit my father. That's it, up to the minute.
Also yesterday, I took a three-mile walk, trying out the new shoes I bought which are actually running shoes--the salesperson in the store assured me that I could use them just as well for walking. (Since they only sold running shoes in this particular store, I knew she had an angle, but I was set on getting shoes right then and there, and I decided to trust her.) Then, while scanning the magazine for retired people (!) in my doctor's office, I read that one should make sure to buy shoes specifically for walking, not running, if one is only planning to walk. Oh well. I still didn't want to take the time to return the shoes and look for others, so I took the plunge and laced them up (mixed metaphors? or mixture of metaphor and nonmetaphor?) for a walk yesterday. I think they were fine--very cushy actually.
After that, I unrolled (for the first time) the yoga mat I bought some time ago for at-home practice and popped in a yoga CD that I received as a present from my sister, did the 25-minute "power yoga" workout. I was pretty pleased with the experience--nice to have an alternative to going to class and to see that I could do most of what the soulful, half-naked practitioner was doing, despite not being seated in the middle of the desert with mountains in the background.
Now it's Saturday early afternoon and I am running off to visit my father. That's it, up to the minute.
posted by Sarah Sometimes at 12:24 PM
3 Comments:
you laced up the plunge?
actually it seems like a perfectly reasonable sentence.
glad you are looking forward to the immersion and exhaustion.
This is good to hear. What I want to know is have you opened up those shades yet?
;-)
See you soon [June 23-25] .
T.
Clowncar: Thanks for the comment--glad my sentence made sense! And, after a week, I am both immersed and exhausted, but it's going well.
FA: Yes, blinds are open, I will take a picture soon, I promise. :) So, you're coming to town??? Send me an e-mail when it gets closer so we can plan something.
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