21.5.800 {Day 2}
I fulfilled my 800 words two emails ago. I am allowing myself to count my emails and replying to comments on my Livejournal as my 800 words because (1) they were to my friends and colleagues and (2) they were on topics of personal value.
Also, the word “colleagues”? It’s a new term I picked up from my grad class. Everyone uses it at that level. That word and “cohort” are extremely popular terms, though I don’t know if that is simply because it is a graduate course or if it’s because of the human development perspective.
I am gaining so much from this Adulthood and Aging class that I don’t think I can even begin to quantify it until I have a week or two to process it. Tomorrow is the last in-class meeting day. While I love the topic, 9am-3pm class is very trying. I am extremely fidgety and distracted.
My plan was to do yoga today in a Power Yoga class offered at the campus gym, but I didn’t end up going or doing my yoga video. I just felt so sick after my nap. I had a terrible headache and my stomach was dancing. I may try doing savasana tonight before sleeping, as a way to wind down from an extremely traumatic day.
OK, OK, I’m exaggerating. The brown-yellow liquid dripping from our bathroom ceiling from the apartment above us did not cause any lasting emotional damage. It was, however, another event in the long journey that is (as my mother would call it) “Becoming an Adult”.
I’ll spare you the details.
I am a little worried that if I don’t get my savasana in tonight, I will be panicked and feel like a procrastinator even though events beyond my control made it extremely difficult today. More than anything, I want to reaffirm my control over my time and energy.
After this graduate course and learning to live in an apartment, I know I will be more empowered and motivated because I will have new constructs to build on. My time management skills are building daily. My self-control has increased from a 3 to a 5 (out of an imaginary 10 scale). I’ve been practicing the art of window shopping, which is a totally new experience for The Impulse Buyer.
I started working on my website again. 
the PFENIX will rise up in a few months. I still love the main site’s layout, but I’m working on content now. Content is the soul.
I sense major shifts of perception and learning in my future.
All right, I know that they are coming because I set myself up to have incredible experiences, but it’s powerful to feel my own excitement and anticipate the happiness & challenges they will bring.
