mushin no shin

I add, “I think I threw my knee out playing piano”.

I guess my little holiday bender is officially over now. Well it was fun while it lasted.
Lest you think otherwise, there actually was a greater purpose. 2007 turned out to be a mildly shitty year for me. Mildly in that nothing much happened, the problem was just that, well, nothing much happened.
I spent most of [...]

Well I was totally prepared to wake up yesterday with a raging hangover. I wasn’t prepared for it to be completely eclipsed by a brutal and relentless head cold. Well at least it gives me an excuse to take Nyquil :)
Gah. So yeah I spent most of yesterday wrapped up in a blanket, drinking tea, [...]

Pro:

It would be good for me
Having been very busy and having kept late nights, I overslept every day this week and only did about half of my usual daily practice
I skipped last week due to the Buddhist festival
I will feel justified to reward myself with my usual post-yoga Chinese takeout for lunch

Con:

Yesterday’s Peace Walk left [...]

Let us briefly interrupt the California recaps to write up the weekend –

Thursday — 3rd meeting in the South Nashville Planning process. Pretty uneventful. They showed us maps marking out their proposed changes to the land use policies (not zoning, but the guidelines that encourage zonings) and basically just made sure we were cool with [...]

Whew. Sleep has been had. Clothes have been unpacked and washed. Cat litter has been emptied, cat fur has been vacuumed. Groceries have been bought. Mail has been sorted and mostly read. Next step I suppose is to tackle the daunting stack of receipts and asses the damage, to figure out how many times I’m [...]

Went to the South Nashville planning kickoff meeting last night. I feel so civic and responsible and stuff. This can’t be good for my street cred. Anyway all they did was give us a little presentation talking about sustainable urban development & tell us a bit about what the meetings are for. The real work [...]

…when 2 hours of yoga, followed by 2 hours of karate, followed by 2 hours of yoga — only leaves enough time in between to scarf down some greasy fast food for lunch.
Sigh.