Updates in dot points
* I am very busy at present somehow, mostly this is pleasing (except when I wish to have quiet time alone or quiet time with just one of my special ones' company.
* I am almost finished this work contract and will have finished over 90% of the migration despite the contract being cut short.
* I am job hunting and to assist in that end my friend G has been helping me overhaul my resume so that it looks so much better. It presents me as I am with my skills and experience and background, aims and commitments and shows me to have career direction and highlights my relevant experience.
It's a bit of a revelation to me that with everything G has done, it's largely what was already there but even with what she's added, it's all of it completely true and not exaggerated... the different presentation with the narrative makes an *immense* difference to how it reads. I'm looking forward to testing it out.
* I have been doing a meditation class called 'Calm Abiding' for the past seven weeks, the last class is next week. I've enjoyed it immensely and found it to be deeply rewarding as a class and as a personal practice.
* The bonus part of the class is having dinner every week with
chaosmanor and
maharetr. *win*
* I have also started a dance class (thanks to a cheap voucher) in Vic Park. It's a social beginner's dance class and includes all the basic latin and ballroom favourites. I'm also enjoying this immensely - this is not unexpected as I've always wanted to dance and I have on occasion where I've managed not to trip over my feet really enjoyed partnered dancing with K. I am hoping that with a new job I will be able to continue learning to dance as it delights me that much.
* The bonus part of this class is being able to have dinner every week with
maharetr and
samvara. *win*
* A few weeks ago I was staying over with
hipikat and I tried out his bench press, turns out that feeling is rather awesome and I kind of love the idea of doing it more. There's something about this exercise that feels incredibly personally powerful. There's a bit more to it than that but I find it hard to describe so you will have to imagine instead.
* I am missing my array of romantic partners atm, it's just that kind of timeframe where I'm feeling a bit emotionally stretched and wish for more ease of spending time and sharing caringness and touchingness. But I can sincerely say I am utterly delighted by the people with whom I share some kind of relationship in this vein and I do find it very rewarding. Yes I can be delighted and feel rewarded and also miss not being able to hug or hold hands or hang out with people more often. I can also do this without expecting anything to be different than how it is.
* I have the semester off from uni for a break which I am still very much in need of. I'm starting to feel like I'm all around coping better and have a generally functioning groove, so that feeling of being burned out and overdone is receding. I'm starting to have ideas for writing blogs and such again which I'm delighted by. My more serious efforts at blogging are over at my posterous blog if you're interested, though I do generally link posts to here as well.
* I have a facial and social stuff on in Freo tomorrow which I'm looking forward to, the aim being to end up back at Friday Night.
* I am watching an awful lot of tv and I'm starting to get back into fiction reading. I'm also eyeing off non-fiction books that I've bought after falling in love with theorists or writers through uni. I'm feeling like I can almost take those books up and read them and write about them. This delights me very much.
* I have emptied my 'too many tabs' cache from some time early last YEAR. (45 tabs of that I actually wanted to read (down from the ones that were no longer relevant, no longer of interest or were defunct links).
* I have also made huge inroads into my blogfeed backlog, I am down do 505 unread posts. To give some context to this, I read 84 blogs, of which 60 or so are active regularly. One of the blogs that is active has a borked count so I can probably add another 200 to that (it's a blog I like to read carefully). Before I finished last semester, I was behind over 1500 entries (having occasionally managed to catch up on the easy/fun reads). Since the end of the semester I've added at least 10 blogs to my tally (making part of the 84 blog total). This does not include LJ or DW friendslists.
* I am still drinking lots of lovely tea on the new eating plan I'm doing. I'm still on the first part of the plan, though I'm finding it easy and rewarding. Creative enough to enjoy cooking a lot and not a lot of difficult rules also it doesn't make me feel like I'm being punished for being a bad person. I am looking forward to seeing how this goes, but I am developing an unholy love of natural yoghurt and an appreciation for cauliflower diced up small as a brilliant rice substitute.
* Through conversation with K I have realised that when I drink coffee straight up I have a very sensitive palate and I notice how it tastes much more than I realised.
* Most restaurants cannot cook steak as well as I can for myself (or how Calli cooks it - we've compared notes on this). I find it irritating if I'm then paying $30 or more for a steak, from a professional and it's not as good as I could have done myself.
That's me for now... I'll get more regular as I continue to feel more up to it I suspect.
This entry was originally posted at http://transcendancing.dreamwidth.org/818987.html
* I am almost finished this work contract and will have finished over 90% of the migration despite the contract being cut short.
* I am job hunting and to assist in that end my friend G has been helping me overhaul my resume so that it looks so much better. It presents me as I am with my skills and experience and background, aims and commitments and shows me to have career direction and highlights my relevant experience.
It's a bit of a revelation to me that with everything G has done, it's largely what was already there but even with what she's added, it's all of it completely true and not exaggerated... the different presentation with the narrative makes an *immense* difference to how it reads. I'm looking forward to testing it out.
* I have been doing a meditation class called 'Calm Abiding' for the past seven weeks, the last class is next week. I've enjoyed it immensely and found it to be deeply rewarding as a class and as a personal practice.
* The bonus part of the class is having dinner every week with
chaosmanor and
maharetr. *win*
* I have also started a dance class (thanks to a cheap voucher) in Vic Park. It's a social beginner's dance class and includes all the basic latin and ballroom favourites. I'm also enjoying this immensely - this is not unexpected as I've always wanted to dance and I have on occasion where I've managed not to trip over my feet really enjoyed partnered dancing with K. I am hoping that with a new job I will be able to continue learning to dance as it delights me that much.
* The bonus part of this class is being able to have dinner every week with
maharetr and
samvara. *win*
* A few weeks ago I was staying over with
hipikat and I tried out his bench press, turns out that feeling is rather awesome and I kind of love the idea of doing it more. There's something about this exercise that feels incredibly personally powerful. There's a bit more to it than that but I find it hard to describe so you will have to imagine instead.
* I am missing my array of romantic partners atm, it's just that kind of timeframe where I'm feeling a bit emotionally stretched and wish for more ease of spending time and sharing caringness and touchingness. But I can sincerely say I am utterly delighted by the people with whom I share some kind of relationship in this vein and I do find it very rewarding. Yes I can be delighted and feel rewarded and also miss not being able to hug or hold hands or hang out with people more often. I can also do this without expecting anything to be different than how it is.
* I have the semester off from uni for a break which I am still very much in need of. I'm starting to feel like I'm all around coping better and have a generally functioning groove, so that feeling of being burned out and overdone is receding. I'm starting to have ideas for writing blogs and such again which I'm delighted by. My more serious efforts at blogging are over at my posterous blog if you're interested, though I do generally link posts to here as well.
* I have a facial and social stuff on in Freo tomorrow which I'm looking forward to, the aim being to end up back at Friday Night.
* I am watching an awful lot of tv and I'm starting to get back into fiction reading. I'm also eyeing off non-fiction books that I've bought after falling in love with theorists or writers through uni. I'm feeling like I can almost take those books up and read them and write about them. This delights me very much.
* I have emptied my 'too many tabs' cache from some time early last YEAR. (45 tabs of that I actually wanted to read (down from the ones that were no longer relevant, no longer of interest or were defunct links).
* I have also made huge inroads into my blogfeed backlog, I am down do 505 unread posts. To give some context to this, I read 84 blogs, of which 60 or so are active regularly. One of the blogs that is active has a borked count so I can probably add another 200 to that (it's a blog I like to read carefully). Before I finished last semester, I was behind over 1500 entries (having occasionally managed to catch up on the easy/fun reads). Since the end of the semester I've added at least 10 blogs to my tally (making part of the 84 blog total). This does not include LJ or DW friendslists.
* I am still drinking lots of lovely tea on the new eating plan I'm doing. I'm still on the first part of the plan, though I'm finding it easy and rewarding. Creative enough to enjoy cooking a lot and not a lot of difficult rules also it doesn't make me feel like I'm being punished for being a bad person. I am looking forward to seeing how this goes, but I am developing an unholy love of natural yoghurt and an appreciation for cauliflower diced up small as a brilliant rice substitute.
* Through conversation with K I have realised that when I drink coffee straight up I have a very sensitive palate and I notice how it tastes much more than I realised.
* Most restaurants cannot cook steak as well as I can for myself (or how Calli cooks it - we've compared notes on this). I find it irritating if I'm then paying $30 or more for a steak, from a professional and it's not as good as I could have done myself.
That's me for now... I'll get more regular as I continue to feel more up to it I suspect.
This entry was originally posted at http://transcendancing.dreamwidth.org/818987.html