You're the librarian right?...No I'm just an assistant.
So the past week has been exhausting and fun at the same time. I feel sort of bad because I've sort of been shutting out everything in my life to concentrate on what I'm doing. I have a tendency to do that. Eyes on the prize mother fucker. ANYWAYS, I've been taking a yoga class at Lesley for some extra credits over the winter break. It's a two week accelerated course, (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am-3pm) It's been pretty fun but intense. Each night we have to write a response paper to an average of 60 pages of reading and articles. I have a paper due Tuesday which is an observational paper, and a ten page research paper due the week after the class gets out. I've really enjoyed it, we usually discuss the readings, go over some terms, and practice yoga for 1-2 hours, take an hour lunch break, and then go back to talking, then another practice before we go home. Usually the second practice is more about breathing and meditation. I've been taking the class with Julia, which is cool because we go there together, practice next to each other, have lunch together, go home together, and then sprawl ourselves around the living room for hours on end doing the homework for the next night. I feel like I would not be as motivated if I was doing it with someone else. Regardless, I feel really good doing yoga, and I've felt really good since the first class that I took. Feeling extra motivated, I signed up for a gym membership at planet fitness. This has been really nice too, I've only gone once so far, but I feel like I have options now. I really want to get thinner, and healthier and I think I'm really on the right track for the first time in my life. Julia and I went to a hot yoga class yesterday morning too, which was REALLY intense. The room was humid, and 90 degrees...needless to say I was dripping sweat from every inch of my body. I felt soooo good when I got out of there though. I felt like my body had been vacuumed out. There are a few other goals that I have, or habits that I've been trying to kick, like drinking coffee, I'm trying to cut down to maybe a couple cups a week and switching it for tea, I'm trying to cut out the few "junk-foods" that I eat, such as chips, lots of cheese, gluten-free crackers and bread. I'm thinking about doing the "raw food" diet in February, it means I won't really be able to go out to eat or anything, but I'll pretty much just be taking my vitamins, eating raw fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, and tofu for the 28 days and lots of water, tea, and soy milk. I think it'll really give me a good push, a detox of sorts. As far as my emotions go, I've been sort of a wreck. But I've been doing some meditation, and day dreaming really that's been keeping me from spiraling down like I usually do. I really, just don't know what I want, well I do, but I don't want to hurt anyone in the process or make anyone feel such out, or let down. It's bound to happen. I'll be making some major life changes fairly soon though. I need an emotional detox. Hopefully I'll be going back to hot yoga this evening. Which means, a light lunch, I had kind of a heavy breakfast, (gluten free waffles, and a gluten free bagel, tea, and a hashbrown) so maybe I'll just have a tofu dog or something later when I get hungry. And then something full of potassium and protein for dinner to help me recover from the rigorous workout. Anyways, hope everyone is well. I'm sorry if I haven't been around, or if you feel neglected. Shoot me an email or fb message if you need to talk, or just simply give me a call.