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My life does not suck.
Jun. 22nd, 2007 22:54Long day today.
Got up at 0800. Went out to the store to get sandwich makings as the first order of business, since I was a git and forgot to do so before the day of (again). Fixed lunch and left the house. On to Home Despot for a new sprinkler control unit. That took less time than expected, so I stopped at Trader Joe's for more default sustenance to store in my car. Back home to pick up the pipe-laying toolkit, then off to Oakland.
After the Charlie Foxtrot that was the tunnel (only one bore open westbound on a Friday morning?) I got to Impact. The next seven hours was spent observing and finally fighting analytical fatigue/saturation, but was generally very good... they treated me like another instructor, which was unexpected, and even incorporated some of my observations into the lessons. Very positive all around. The class is also having the effect it always does for me, such that Kathy told me in passing that it had brought out even more of the panther-like qualities of my body movements. I feel graceful and powerful both, which I rarely get in conjunction.
I left at 6 and headed south to Chaos Castle, where they pounced on me as another person coming to their weekly dinner out (I had forgotten it was Friday). Before we left I took twenty minutes to install the new control unit, then discovered, after having cut it off the pipe, that the old one wasn't as dead as I thought. Sigh. If I can revive it I'll use it here. Anyway, off to dinner as the pipe cement cured. I should go to Mongolian BBQ more often -- Asian food without a trace of onion is fabulous. Back to the Castle, kibitz a little while I let the newly repressurized system soak the parched lawn, adjust the heads a little for minimum overspray, then turn it back to automatic again and come home.
I have to be in Oakland tomorrow at 0800, which means getting up at 0600 (because the Tunnel may not be any better than it was today). The only way I'm writing this now is that I'm killing two birds with one stone; as soon as I post it I'm going to bed. I'll probably get out at 1900 tomorrow, unless they surprise me, and then Sunday will be very much the same.
On the way home, when I wasn't dodging idiots (I don't know what's gotten into them today) my thoughts turned to the high points I've got right now. I have four people I've given my heart to, and they make me happier than I can describe, even when I miss one of them terribly. I have solid dreams for my future that aren't being undercut by circumstance. The work I'm getting into with Impact is so satisfying and exciting that it leaves me speechless. I feel challenged in a way that leaves me confident that I can meet those challenges, and confident that I can find great beauty in my life.
I haven't arrived at a destination yet, but I've gotten to a really good part of the trip.
Got up at 0800. Went out to the store to get sandwich makings as the first order of business, since I was a git and forgot to do so before the day of (again). Fixed lunch and left the house. On to Home Despot for a new sprinkler control unit. That took less time than expected, so I stopped at Trader Joe's for more default sustenance to store in my car. Back home to pick up the pipe-laying toolkit, then off to Oakland.
After the Charlie Foxtrot that was the tunnel (only one bore open westbound on a Friday morning?) I got to Impact. The next seven hours was spent observing and finally fighting analytical fatigue/saturation, but was generally very good... they treated me like another instructor, which was unexpected, and even incorporated some of my observations into the lessons. Very positive all around. The class is also having the effect it always does for me, such that Kathy told me in passing that it had brought out even more of the panther-like qualities of my body movements. I feel graceful and powerful both, which I rarely get in conjunction.
I left at 6 and headed south to Chaos Castle, where they pounced on me as another person coming to their weekly dinner out (I had forgotten it was Friday). Before we left I took twenty minutes to install the new control unit, then discovered, after having cut it off the pipe, that the old one wasn't as dead as I thought. Sigh. If I can revive it I'll use it here. Anyway, off to dinner as the pipe cement cured. I should go to Mongolian BBQ more often -- Asian food without a trace of onion is fabulous. Back to the Castle, kibitz a little while I let the newly repressurized system soak the parched lawn, adjust the heads a little for minimum overspray, then turn it back to automatic again and come home.
I have to be in Oakland tomorrow at 0800, which means getting up at 0600 (because the Tunnel may not be any better than it was today). The only way I'm writing this now is that I'm killing two birds with one stone; as soon as I post it I'm going to bed. I'll probably get out at 1900 tomorrow, unless they surprise me, and then Sunday will be very much the same.
On the way home, when I wasn't dodging idiots (I don't know what's gotten into them today) my thoughts turned to the high points I've got right now. I have four people I've given my heart to, and they make me happier than I can describe, even when I miss one of them terribly. I have solid dreams for my future that aren't being undercut by circumstance. The work I'm getting into with Impact is so satisfying and exciting that it leaves me speechless. I feel challenged in a way that leaves me confident that I can meet those challenges, and confident that I can find great beauty in my life.
I haven't arrived at a destination yet, but I've gotten to a really good part of the trip.
