back in the groove

 It’s so good to be back… I can’t get over it. Yesterday Rich and I went hiking at the Barton Creek Greenbelt for just over 2 hours and then went to Whole Foods for lunch. I like to play this game where I go to Whole Foods and wait to see how long it takes until I run into someone I know; this time it took less than a minute. As we were leaving I ran in to another friend who said "welcome back to your new old life!"

Earlier this week my friend Gigi came to town; she’s from DC and we used to practice yoga together… She’s on a cross country road trip heading to Los Angeles where she will start a 12 day tour. It was great to see her and get to hang out. I only mention this because ANOTHER friend from DC is coming to Austin tonight on a cross country road trip to Los Angeles… and she and I will go to yoga together! How odd is that? Is that the new thing?

Rich and I joined a new softball team, and the guys on it are a blast. On Sunday we went out to a Gay Sports Conference to represent our league and we were having some cocktails (it was held in a bar). I was holding an empty glass when a guy on my team just came up and handed me a new drink… and another guy from my team put my straw in his nose, snorted my drink, and then hit the floor. My jaw just dropped and he hopped up laughing… apparently he saw my empty drink and thought it would be funny to pretend to snort it and didn’t see me get a replacement for it. It was weird, but then it was funny. I’m looking forward to our next season.

I’m meeting with some folks tomorrow who teach donation based classes to the lgbtq community, specializing in yoga for transfolk. They were told to contact me by some of my teachers… we’re going to work on some sort of project… I’m hoping to teach asana and chakra therapy for the gay community in general. The work is the same as regular yoga, but the understanding of why you’re doing it has to be recognized… I’ll keep you posted on what develops as I don’t really know where we’re at or what we’re going to do.

off to work… got to get ready to teach Intro to Hatha Flow to the hatha teacher trainees!