Wandering Mind

School starts this week. I don't have a class until next week (my class meets Mondays and Wednesdays) but the students and everything else starts this week. I have all kinds of fun things to do as new faculty starting with a Theatre department retreat today. Fortunately I came into work early today because an email was sent out at the END of the day on Friday saying where the retreat was... and it's not here. So had I come in at my regular time I would be very late to the retreat. I still might be anyway. Tomorrow is a meeting for new faculty and Wednesday is the Dean's meeting with everyone in the Fine Arts Dept. Should be a hoot.

I had a wonderful weekend to launch me into this week. I made it to the rocks for a little while each day but I have to admit I'm starting to get a little bored without a partner. All the fun stuff is too dangerous to do by myself. Yoga on Saturday was led Primary with led by someone I'm not sure has led it before... Which was good and bad. No adjustments, the timing was a bit odd, and I think a little stage fright caused her to lose the names of a lot of the poses. My favorite was the "backward vinyasa thing". The good thing about it was that if I didn't want to get completely frustrated with it I had to accept it, and really internalize my practice, which I did and it was lovely. Sunday Michael was back and it was a nice practice directed, it seemed, toward subtle hip opening. I'm just enjoying practicing with people again, so that was really the highlight of the practices. I do need to comment about one gentleman in the class yesterday but I'm running out of time so I'll have to do it later.

Other weekend highlights. The Blonde Lady was up and we had a great time, hiking and bouldering. Next week we start teaching her rope work! We also managed to clean and organize my second bedroom so it's almost in a usable condition. Lots of nice relaxing time, too. She brought her guitar up and serenaded me a little, too. There is something so touching when someone will open herself up to you in a one on one situation with something like that. All in all, it was a wonderful way to prepare myself for this week.

Now I have to go figure out where the hell this retreat is.