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[missroserose]

Hello, Dreamwidth! This is mostly a flyby check-in to wave hi, and let everyone know I'm still alive; it has been A Week, my dudes. Some highlights (and lowlights):

• I had my quarterly assessment with my yoga studio manager, and she said many nice things about my teaching and how it's improved, as well as giving me some useful and on occasion thought-provoking feedback on both my skills and my role in the community.
• Teacher training has begun, and I'm getting a feel for how this group interacts.  So far things seem to be going well, although after holding Extended Side Angle pose for several minutes at a time during posture clinics, man was I sore.
• I've been participating in some 1k1h writing sprints (a scheduled time when you try to write 1000 words in an hour) on Tumblr, as well as holding a couple of my own, and have managed to write over 9000 words so far on my holiday exchange fic.  Assuming I stick to the vague outline I have in my head, I'd say I'm about two-thirds done with the rough draft.  (Given that the minimum is 1000 words, somebody's getting a heck of a Christmas present, haha.)  It's been interesting—the person I was matched with has very different general preferences from mine, so finding the areas of overlap and ways to mesh the two is turning out to be a helpful writing exercise, I think.
• Concurrently, I have been falling off on my guitar practice—frustratingly, it seems like I only have room for one of the two in my life right now.  I'm hoping that now that yoga is slowing a bit (TT is only one evening a week rather than three, and after this week one of my classes is dropping off the schedule) I'll be able to devote more time to it.  I heard an acoustic cover of "When Doves Cry" in class yesterday that gave me Ideas.
• I managed to drop my Apple Watch on the tile floor of the studio locker room and smash the face.  Augh!  I have very mixed feelings about whether or not I want to replace it—I can get a replacement for $229, or get the shiny new model for $400.  But it's technically a luxury item—one that I use regularly in my line of work, but hardly a necessity.  And an expensive one to boot. 
• And probably the biggest news: Yesterday I got my new tattoo!  I am so incredibly thrilled with how it came out—totally worth the three-plus hours of work (even the last twenty or thirty minutes of teeth-gritting).  Here's hoping the aftercare works as well as last time and it heals just as beautifully.

Life continues apace, let us all get out there and seize it!  And wrestle that sucker to the ground so we can have a moment's rest before the next challenge.  We hope.

Comments

[cyrano]

I am impressed at how many things you manage to keep on your plate at once, but I also know how frustrating it is when one fades, for whatever reason. Was this the Ani DiFranco/Dar Williams version of 'Doves'?

[missroserose]

I honestly don't know—we were in the middle of class while it was playing, and I didn't ask the teacher afterward. I may check that one out, though.