only the essentials
my daily forecast told me that i have good clear thinking and organizing abilities today, and can easily get my tasks done. and that therefore, i should concentrate only on the essentials.
that's good. because on my list are the followings:
* finish writing up my digital culture class for tomorrow (which organized itself in my head as i was waking up this morning - that's the funnest way to plan classes ;))
* finish preparing the first class for the cognetics and interface course - which starts tomorrow (yay! yikes!)
* finish up odds and ends for the first class in advanced learning theories - which starts on tuesday
* give feedback to my students' projects which they present for critique on monday (if they bother sending me anything)
* go shop for a wedding dress at the 'designers market'
* hold a client meeting this evening that was postponed from yesterday.
update from tuesday evening.... go me!
only the essentials.
hah.
***
on a less essential note...
Adam, my previous young, attractive, stone-dead intelligent and completely whacko neighbor - is finally being replaced. The apartment has been empty for the last month - but the landlady told me yesterday that we're getting a new neighbor - a nice Argentinian guy.
got a surprise peek at the guy as i was passing the front door to get my morning tea.
it was only a peek, mind you, but he looks tall, attractive pleasant - and hey. Spanish.
it amused me to consider a possible developing interest between him and my really truly excellent other neighbor - of the Kundalini Yoga.
Get this for an odd juxtaposition: she lived in Crown Heights for 13 years, very close to where S. did his Habad-ization process. 'cept she almost never interacted with the Jews there. Instead, she would buy grass from the black dudes, drummed with voodoo-ists, and taught elementary school in Harlem.
That is... before she started learning Kundalini Yoga. One of the reasons she likes it so much is how well it sits with Judaism. She said that with everything else she went to experience, there was a feeling of something going against her grain. Not that it wasn't good or legit... it just didn't sit as comfy.
Kundalini Yoga, on the other hand, is from the Sikhs - a relatively new religion, monotheistic, with a very grounded form of mysticism and who do seem to have a lot of compatibilities with Judaism and with Kabbalah. She's gotten me interested, and while I've done various forms of Yoga - this seems to have a very good balance between the physical, mental and spiritual. My signs are starting to point towards suggesting a combination of Kundalini yoga practice/discipline and Kabbalah studies (though, from the more traditional, based in Torah viewpoint, rather than the commercialized esotericism sold on Dizengoff).
There's so much more I want to write about women and spirituality, the Yogi Bhajan, new Judaisms...
But this post was devoted to shaving off the excess thought-spirals, and today's commandment:
Get Thy Butt Nailed to Dem Essentials
that's good. because on my list are the followings:
* finish writing up my digital culture class for tomorrow (which organized itself in my head as i was waking up this morning - that's the funnest way to plan classes ;))
* finish preparing the first class for the cognetics and interface course - which starts tomorrow (yay! yikes!)
* finish up odds and ends for the first class in advanced learning theories - which starts on tuesday
* give feedback to my students' projects which they present for critique on monday (if they bother sending me anything)
* go shop for a wedding dress at the 'designers market'
* hold a client meeting this evening that was postponed from yesterday.
update from tuesday evening.... go me!
only the essentials.
hah.
***
on a less essential note...
Adam, my previous young, attractive, stone-dead intelligent and completely whacko neighbor - is finally being replaced. The apartment has been empty for the last month - but the landlady told me yesterday that we're getting a new neighbor - a nice Argentinian guy.
got a surprise peek at the guy as i was passing the front door to get my morning tea.
it was only a peek, mind you, but he looks tall, attractive pleasant - and hey. Spanish.
it amused me to consider a possible developing interest between him and my really truly excellent other neighbor - of the Kundalini Yoga.
Get this for an odd juxtaposition: she lived in Crown Heights for 13 years, very close to where S. did his Habad-ization process. 'cept she almost never interacted with the Jews there. Instead, she would buy grass from the black dudes, drummed with voodoo-ists, and taught elementary school in Harlem.
That is... before she started learning Kundalini Yoga. One of the reasons she likes it so much is how well it sits with Judaism. She said that with everything else she went to experience, there was a feeling of something going against her grain. Not that it wasn't good or legit... it just didn't sit as comfy.
Kundalini Yoga, on the other hand, is from the Sikhs - a relatively new religion, monotheistic, with a very grounded form of mysticism and who do seem to have a lot of compatibilities with Judaism and with Kabbalah. She's gotten me interested, and while I've done various forms of Yoga - this seems to have a very good balance between the physical, mental and spiritual. My signs are starting to point towards suggesting a combination of Kundalini yoga practice/discipline and Kabbalah studies (though, from the more traditional, based in Torah viewpoint, rather than the commercialized esotericism sold on Dizengoff).
There's so much more I want to write about women and spirituality, the Yogi Bhajan, new Judaisms...
But this post was devoted to shaving off the excess thought-spirals, and today's commandment:
Get Thy Butt Nailed to Dem Essentials