Today started out with the blahs. I woke up just feeling wonky and I couldn’t get out of it. I was sad, or out of sorts… I don’t know. Did the regular morning stuff, drove to the shala and commenced chanting and meditation. By the end of meditation I was feeling a bit better, but still sorry for myself (for whatever reason…). Then I practiced. It was a nice slow vinyasa flow that suited exactly how I felt today. I don’t know how it always works out that way… but it does.
After, I still felt a little down… but a shower and some errands (ie. lunch and a dog/cat food stop so I didn’t have to do it at 5pm) cured me pretty nicely. I was insanely patient driving home, which is sooooo unlike me, and guess what? I got home in exactly the same amount of time… with NO STRESS. Funny, right?
I did hear something that I thought was disturbing when I listened to the news though. About the geese at the airport in NY. You know the famous geese in the propellers from the Hudson emergency landing? Well, apparently they wanted to make the airport safer so last year they made a plan to capture the geese and gas them. Animal rights activists had some problems with that and luckily it didn’t happen. Now though.. the new plan is to capture them and relocate them to Pennsylvania where they will be cooked and fed to poor people.
I’m really just not sure how I feel about this….. Feeding them to the poor is definitely better than gassing them.. but geez. All in the name of airline safety. At least now a little bit of my airplane terror can be tempered by the death of thousands of birds. Hmm.. If you want to check out the whole story HERE it is.
On a lighter note. I am 3 weeks into YTT. Which means I’m almost finished… which also means that I need to stop stammering through my cuing while teaching asana. I’ll give you the full update when it’s all over, but today I’m just happy it was able to quell my dreary Monday mood.
TNT is going well. We had our first official training day Saturday with some breakfast and a shoe demo after. Everyone is really great and I hope we can get everyone faster and stronger and happy with their efforts by the fall. Ive also been recruited for the Florida Keys Ragnar which isn’t until January thank god. Lots on my plate here. Ultra training is on hold until YTT is over and then I need to get my ass in gear…again. I’d like to keep up with my 6 day a week ashtanga practice as well, so we’ll have to see how to work that one out. Luckily I should be [retty hungry with all that exercise so there should be some awesome recipes coming up in July. Until then, it’s cous cous and kale.
Hopefully I’ll be back soon… but I’ve got a boatload of work to do.
Namaste ya’ll
*oh and by the way…. air conditioning rocks.