Status

I am positively bursting with excitement.  Unfortunately, I can’t say why.  Yet.  At least not anywhere this public.  But I just needed to say it!
YIPPEE!!!!!

Not here

So I many not have posted here today, (well, other than this little note) but I posted over here at i obsess.  That totally counts toward NaBloPoMo, no?

hiatus.

I haven’t blogged, because I haven’t felt like it.
It used to excite me. It used to quench my thirst for writing.
Now, perhaps as a byproduct of working as a writer, it’s become a chore that I dread rather than savour.
So for now, I’m taking a break from writing. I’m still around ashtangi.net [...]

Organics, authenticity etc.

So far, this week has been quite wonderful for no particular reason.
After completing a huge project, my boss took the whole office out for lunch yesterday, showered us with gift certificates to a particularly lovely spa and then sent us home for the afternoon. What a difference it makes to feel appreciated by your [...]

The best thing

After I hung up the phone, after the tears started, after he put his arms around me and wiped away my tears, he said, “You’re a kind, considerate person.  You have never disappointed me.”
That meant everything to me.

Sticky

I’m fairly certain that I’ve mentioned several times before how much I am NOT a morning person.  Usually this manifests itself in a high degree of irritability.  So much irritability in fact that it prompted some of my grad school classmates to make the comment that I have enough anger in the morning to fill [...]

Oooohhh. As long as we got each other

I practiced. It was hot and sweaty and glorious. And consequently I finally got a fabulous night’s sleep.
Curiously, during my entire practice, I had the Growing Pains theme song stuck in my head. Clearly I am a child of the eighties.
I was surprised to see, upon looking up the lyrics, that one [...]

Blob

I’ve been absent from every aspect of Ashtanga lately: this blog, the wider online community and the practice itself.  And now I feel like a gigantic blob.
I was consumed by coordinating my organization’s conference.  Then I was at the conference for 6 days.  Then I came home and was completely overwhelmed by and enveloped in [...]

8 Things.

Apparently I’m it! Jenna tagged me for the ‘8 Random Things’ meme. So here they are:
(1) I have naturally curly hair and I can virtually guarantee that you will never, ever see me with straight hair, as I feel it makes me look like David Bowie (no one else agrees with me [...]

I obsess

You know, I lay in bed at night, just before sleeping, and compose these articulate, thought-provoking blog posts. Then I sit down in the morning and attempt to recreate them and what do I come up with? Nothing. I have nothing people.
After a turbulent week last week that was crowded with business [...]

Re-Inspired

The night before last I had a dream that I was demonstrating kapotasana to The Guy on a subway platform.  You know, because that’s totally normal.
Perhaps it was a sign that my body was craving practice after three (okay, four) days off for Ladies’ Holiday.  I think it was a result of both the heat [...]

Fickle

I’ve been up since 3:45 this morning.  Considered practicing when I finally gave up on sleep and got out of bed at 5:15.  Couldn’t focus enough.
Back and forth in my head.  Hunched over a calculator for hours.  I’ve become an expert on online budget calculators.
I think I’ve finally made a decision.  I think.  Maybe.
I usually [...]

Should I stay…

…or should I go?
Remember the “opportunity” I alluded to not-so-subtly last week? Well, it’s mine for the taking. After all the interviews, I’m their first choice.
Awesome, right? Well, unfortunately it’s not that simple. Yes, I’ve been offered the position. Yes, it is exactly what I want to do. I [...]

eek

I’m just sitting here, waiting for the email to come through that will give me instructions/a scenario that I will have one hour to work through and email back. This is the first step toward the new opportunity that I spoke of yesterday.
I am unreasonably nervous.
I had a dream that I received the test [...]

Back in it

Had a very lovely long weekend and started back on the practice train on Thursday, putting in practices every day but Saturday.  Sunday’s practice was really great.  Strong, fast and bendy.  Uttita Hasta Padangusthasana was blissful.  I never thought I’d say that.  Like so many other poses of late, it’s like that one just ‘clicked’ [...]