Covered in Bees!

[annuin]

Kit stopped by sometime Sunday afternoon. It was good to get together with him, I don't think he's been at our place since our Halloween party. He'd brought his laptop as well, as there were some issues with it and it was due for a complete reinstall. Windows requires one of those every so many months. So chatter and tea and computer repairs took up most of the afternoon. He got us to listen to some Al Franken speech, which was absolutely hilarious. Nothing like proving Bill O'Reilly a liar with his own show transcripts :D

We had some dinner at Applebees later, and more tea and chatter after that. Sometime after 2am I also spent almost an hour on the phone talking to Kreestof, who figured that if I was awake and talking to him on AIM, we could also just talk on the phone, heh. It was a late night, and PreZ didn't get much sleep before the morning alarm woke him up on monday. How he manages to survive on so little sleep never ceases to amaze me.

Monday our third Kyokushin class, and I felt somewhat less stupid throughout it, which is good. I'm also not as sore after the fact right now, which is also definitely a bonus. My body strength still has a ways to go, but at least I can move without pain the next day and don't have lots of residual muscle soreness for days on end. Next class should be Wednesday.

Tuesday also seemed to be showing some semblance of spring... there was sunshine, and in the sun it was kind of warm, though there was a severe nip to the wind. I'm so ready for spring and summer right now. I've been completely over winter about a week after it started really :)

I finished reading China Miéville's King Rat. I enjoyed it, and if you've read and enjoyed the way that Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere had a subterranean London invisible to the mundane inhabitants, then you'll find this story interesting as well, as it employs a similar concept. Only the main protagonist finds out he's part rat. Mentioning this detail to PreZ and Kit netted me all kinds of silly superhero/mutant type jokes, but the novel is much more succint than that. Think human form but with extra abilities, more like Spider-Man rather than some human/rat hybrid body like the wolfman. Anyway, even if it's a detail that makes you apprehensive, it's worth picking up and reading despite any apprehension you may have.

Part of our Amazon order arrived, and so I have Poppy's Liquor to dig into soon, though first I'll be reading wicked_wish's novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds, which I picked up a few weeks ago before Mad Bruce* made it entirely impossible.

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* You'll have to read her journal for that particular reference

Comments

[ippagoggy.livejournal.com]

tell me again when the yoga is - I'll try to work something out soon
I'm looking forward to it

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

We usually go to the Friday 6pm class, and either Saturday or Sunday 4pm, depending on what we have planned that day. The past two weekends we haven't made it to either afternoon class, but we hope to rectify that soon.

http://www.yoga-spa.com/ is the studio's site. A single class is $22 I believe and they'll give you free mat rental the first time. You'll want to bring 2 towels and a washcloth (1 towel and the washcloth go into the class with you, the second towel is to wipe down after). A change of undergarments will also be a good idea. We usually shower when we get back home, so you can do that too, or you can have a quick shower there too as they do have shower facilities.

Oh, and bring a bottle of water, you'll definitely need that.

[ippagoggy.livejournal.com]

I'd like to try for saturday or sunday - whatever is better for you guys -
how long is the session? an hour?

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Either Saturday or Sunday works for us, we have no current weekend plans. If you come Saturday you could even go ice skating with PreZ :) He has his 30 minute class in the morning, and there's a public session in the afternoon or evening.

The yoga class is 90 minutes.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

For this weekend it looks like Sunday is going to be our yoga day. You're still welcome to drop by on Saturday, Tom and Karen will be here in the afternoon, but no yoga (plus with yoga this afternoon it's nice to have a 1 day breather).