run this amazing day

What a wonderful, exciting weekend! Friday night I decided to give the yoga studio another shot.   Bad news, little bears.   The class was being taught be a regular teacher, not a teacher in training, which I thought would be a great way to sample the studio again.  The first 15-20 minutes of the class were fairly standard, but really excellent - smooth transitions, logical progressions, everyone concentrating and working hard.  Suddenly, our teacher tells us - orders us - to drop into child's pose, where she proceeds to yell at us that we're concentrating too hard, we're being too serious, and she's not going to move on until we all decide to lighten up and have fun.  While she was talking (a while), the girl next to me got up and left, which, if I'm being honest, I was also considering.  This triggered an avalanche of righteous insanity, which included forcing people into postures and variations, talking about the anti-psychotic meds she took, and telling us th

Random Friday facts are back!  This week, (mostly) starring little Katie!! 1. I was the biggest nerd ever in school.  In the 5th grade, I got sent to the principal's office for reading books under my desk instead of paying attention.  My teacher called my mom up, really pissed, because I still got A's but ignored classes.  No, you don't win this.  BIGGEST NERD. That's me on the right.  Check out my shades. 2. It didn't get better in high school, but I found a bunch of other awesome nerds to be friends with, at least.   BOOM! 3. I got the mumps in 2005.  I was working at a low-income (re: no vaccination) school and somehow caught it from a kid, despite the fact that I had been vaccinated.   This made my doctor's week. 4. I can read really fast.  Like, really really fast.  This is bad when packing for vacation. 5. I wasn't an athlete in middle school or high school.  I spent a season on the softball team here, a season on the tennis team here, but what

1. Classes started back up this week, but so far I'm in denial.  My textbooks arrived yesterday, though, so I need to get cracking.   2. I'm really looking forward to this weekend - a great friend is coming into town, a long bike ride is planned, and then it'll be BBQ, blender drinks, and being outside.  We'll probably traipse up into DC to do some monument-ing, or maybe we'll just loll around in the sunshine.   3. I can't stop cracking up, watching this.  My dog is a doof.  He was chasing his tail and growling for about 15 minutes before I could get my phone and tape it.  He can do this for HOURS. Happy Thursday, everyone!

December: June: December: June: What a difference 6 months makes. Update: the bike makes me look good.  Thanks, bike!