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August 21, 2004
...and continues...
What a good day. Although I didn't like not getting up in time to shower, I lived through it. And I have set my alarm an hour early.
Breakfast wasn't so fine. Stomach discomfort and gas. I really need to do food combining, and see Erica about getting enough calories and such.
Orientation was fun... I was more open, I loved Surya's crazy note taking, and the ideas expressed. The Gurdjieff thing seems most important to me -- [community facilitates transformation]. That's a three word poem, in all its over/under defined beauty.
The tour was a little underpowered, but I saw new stuff -- Kiva, smoking temple, sauna, etc. Looking at the map, I'm able to make some more sense of the place.
I saw Janna & Macska's cabinette. I'm jealous of the closet space, but not of having to go to Bodhi to shower. And I like being so close to other people, even if they do talk audibly while I'm journaling.
No laundry during the summer is absurd. Lisa's phrasing -- "This place is not ideal" (emphasis mine) is concretizing for me.
I had planned to do my laundry at home anyway, but after experiencing that mountain road, I dunno.
Blah. I still think we should manifest pavement.
After the tour, I showered. Glorious. The water pressure was fine, the facilities are nice... it was good. I felt much better after.
Then I went swimming. So nice and perfect, although I missed volleyball... so I just did laps.
Met up with Steve for dinner, ate with him, Jamie, Shannon. We talked about movies -- Jamie's the movie buff.
I seem to be connecting well with Steve. That is to say, he listens to me and says useful things back. I have no idea what's going on with his end of it. But, he gave Kala and I tarot readings tonight... very cool. I hope I follow through on my intention to study tarot here, so I can return the favor.
While talking with him at dinner I realized the reason I'm so impatient with the orientation process, especially wanting to know my upcoming schedule, is because I have all of these extra things planned and I'm afraid if I don't start on them NOW I'll never do them. (Shades of the past.) I want to start planning around the schedule before I've even gone through it for a day. Like summer vacations where I had all these ideas for things to learn and ended up doing nothing. I still hate that feeling.
Posted by Josh A. at August 21, 2004 10:35 PM