Strength. Grace. Balance. Flexibility. Stamina. Power. Elegance. Yoga. It makes me feel beautiful, ugly, fat, skinny, flexible, stiff, pliable, sexy, not-so-sexy, stressed, and relaxed, all at once, all at the same time. It’s exhilirating and intimidating. I love every second of it; I love challenging my body to balance, twist and turn in ways that few others can achieve. I’m getting back into the swing of life, and one of the things I’ve enjoyed most is yoga. As I was doing yoga last night, for the first time in months, I thought of all those aforementioned emotions and feelings I felt during my session. I just needed to pass that along, thanks for listening.
For my faithful readers wondering where I’ve gone off to, well, my life got quite the upheaval in 2008, and completely turned upside down a few months ago. I don’t want to jinx anything, but so far, it seems for the better. I haven’t been able to bring myself to blog, even though I should have, because I’ve had so many emotions, thoughts, feelings rushing through me all at once. I couldn’t quite figure out how to express it all in one sitting, so I didn’t even try.
I’ve got a few passing thoughts though, and perhaps down the road I’ll elaborate more. For one, there’s quite a debate about getting a master’s degree online, and getting one IRL – that is, In Real Life – in-person, if you will. I have had the fortune (but currently paying it back…) of experiencing both. Contrary to what most may think, I actually had a closer-knit group of classmates getting my library degree online than I did with my classmates in person while getting my computer science degree. While part of it can be attributed to the nature of the classes themselves (you can’t have as many lively discussions and debates on how your animation is portrayed during your Flash presentation as you can with say, a banned book), most of it is, quite frankly, what you personally put into it. Much like anything else in life, your results are the product of your efforts.
Secondly, Apple’s released some new iPod stuff – one of which is the purple Nano. And yes, it’s being shipped on its way to me now. And Dell also has a 15 inch laptop available in a very girly purple/flowery cover. So it seems the business world is hearing my pleas of “TAKE ALL MY MONEY NOW!” and bringing the purple out.
I had a few more thoughts that I was thinking, but they seem to have gone into hibernation for the evening. It is, after all, almost 3am – an early night for me!
It seems I gave myself an early birthday present – I swore I’d blog again, for my birthday – and my own present’s arrived a few days early. How thoughtful (and surprising) of me to treat myself so early! Happy Birthday to me! And to you, my dears, thanks for reading on with me.
