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October 28, 2004
On again!
What a great day. It all starts with the morning, doesn't it?
I wore my new silk long johns today; quite the reaction was garnered. Oh to keep me warm--without overheating--in style.
Shiatsu was great. We had an acupoint test and I found out that I knew more than I thought I did.
Then we played a 5 Element Game (games! I love the end of a quarter!) and my team almost won. Our team name was "Tessa Jo" which made me picture southern belles. The game involved drawing slips of paper on which were written an aspect of an Element or Organ--for example, it might say "Mental disease, stuttering, confusion" and the answer would be Heart (houses the Shen)--and acting it out; the remaining teams had to guess the answer correctly.
To end class, we listened to more of a Caroline Myss CD. *Bless* that woman, but only because I'm trying to eliminate "damn" from my vocabulary. I think I hear some good points in there, but my mind is so busy trying to filter the chaff that I'm not really sure. If ever a person needed our Conscious Communication Class, not to mention some General Semantics training, it's her! So many You Statements, externalizing, and issuances that sound very much like judgments.
Put bluntly, Caroline Myss is the Dr. Laura of the healing world.
All right, really it's "I view Caroline Myss as the Dr. Laura of the healing world." But I'm hoping the less semantically responsible statement will show up on Googlism's entry for her.
Between lunch and dinner I got 4 (or maybe only 3?) pages of coloring done. In any case, it was enough :-)
I gave a session today, to someone's mother. That was a neat opportunity. It went very well, and I got a 10 on my feedback form.
I called my grandma. Today was her birthday! Yay. Send her your love, prayers, and reiki if you like.
I finally felt on in anatomy class today. The first time I've felt this on since break. Soyka showed up despite experiencing some sciatica. After class I had to express my appreciation for her presence, as I know that were I in her situation I would have been home or at the chiropractor's.
We palpated asses today :-) oK, no, we palpated gluteals and adductors. I already knew how to find piriformis, but I didn't know much about gluteus maximus or medius.
Tonight was Coffee House! Woo. So many community members shared of themselves and their interests with us. I read some poetry. It was amazing to see the diversity of talent, especially from people I never would have expected to do this or that. There was actual coffee (only time the kitchen serves it) and some yummy treats.
It was nice to read [i sing of Olaf glad and big] in front of an audience again, as well as my own stuff. Most of it I've never performed before, so that's kind of stressful. The entire experience always has me so hopped up on adrenaline that I shake visibly.
One thing I'm still unhappy about: Why don't they have this on FRIDAY so that any of our family or friends who have JOBS might be able to come see us?
Stayed up late afterward dancing. It was generally fantastic, but sad reality dropped in: I need to get some records. I'm not satisfied with the DJs here, and the only answer seems to be to take my own turn at the turntables.
I was thinking more about mornings, and waking up in general, and am having a hard time finding an answer to this question: What is the best time of day to wake up? Um, ick. I have this good feeling waking up in the morning, but I can't romanticize it. Someone sang a song at coffee house about "when we rise in the morning" and I felt sick.
I have definite issues with the social/cultural energy around mornings; some kind of aversion gets triggered. I remember for the longest time I couldn't get out of bed if someone was around and could see me. I had to be alone to get up. Sometimes I still feel that way.
At the same time, as much as I've enjoyed getting up in the afternoons in the past, I don't know how often I've felt that within the last year or two. Mostly I've felt this sense of urgent disappointment, accompanied with thoughts and worry about "How am I going to get anything done waking up this late?"
Waking up at night actually sucks for me. It's all about staying up until, not waking up in the middle of.
Obviously the answer is to have two of me so that one can sleep all the time and the other can be awake all the time. Actually, I believe a single 24 hour sleeping me could power three other me's. And wouldn't that be productive and wonderful?
Speaking of which, I want to be up at 6:30 to do the cadaver field trip.
Posted by Josh A. at October 28, 2004 11:14 PM