So this new yoga studio is opening in April and I am going to be teaching there!! It is going to be so amazing. I met & practiced with some of the women there this morning and what an amazing group of goddesses. I am so honored to be a part of this. Locals, please ask me if you have any questions. I am so excited about this. I feel like my ( Read more... )

it is still flourishing. on the days when i wake up feeling like i have a med hangover, it's hard to get myself to practice. but once i roll out my mat I find myself drawn into the grace and beauty of the dance of my practice and it just comes to me. sometimes i practice for hours at a time. today i just did one hour and i feel incredible now ( Read more... )

Spring has come it seems, to me, suddenly. I feel very far from the world around me, which isn't a normal thing for me. I mean that it doesn't feel like spring inside of me; I keep waking up and thinking it's January; I feel like I missed April and in some ways missed the months between January and April ( Read more... )

I'm having a really hard time getting my work done this semester. I wrote to my boss about it and I'm scared to check my work email and see what she said about it. They said if I could just grade my papers I could keep getting paychecks, and normally, you know, I'm a great worker. Even when not manic! Even when a little depressed ( Read more... )

email received from one of my students this morning:

hi mrs. v
this is [STUDENT'S NAME] from eng 105 and me and some other students were concerned about your absence. we just wanted to make sure everything is ok, and if there's anything we can do to help, please let us know. [STUDENT NAME]
I should teach next year ( Read more... )

trying really hard not to be all "me, me, me," but it kinda hurts that my department didn't send me flowers. appendicitis-girl got flowers! why not I? I have a creeping paranoia that it's because I'm "mentally ill," and I don't know if people take it seriously; if they know how sick i was. I was fucking psychotic. Rapid cycling is fucking ( Read more... )