rainy days and mondays
i am proud to say that after the last autobiographical post, i got right back on the exercise wagon, and have been dorking out at the Y all week. i did 3.25 classes this week in addition to other exercise, and right now, pretty much every muscle in my body is at least a little sore. the .25 is because i checked out the “hip hop dance” class on tuesday night, and after the first 15 minutes determined i was in no way qualified to be in that class and left. so. not. coordinated. monday i did step aerobics again. step class is also super difficult for me, not because it’s too strenuous (although my calves do still hurt, 5 days later) but because of the coordination thing, and usually i make it about 30 minutes through the class trying to follow along and keep up with the moves before my brain – not my body- gets tired. it’s really exhausting, concentrating that hard (do you burn more calories then?), and i know it eventually will probably get easier but it seems to be a very.slow.process for me. so anyway, after about 30 minutes of high-concentration, which is also usually about when the instructor introduces new moves/combinations that i can’t get, i generally give up trying to follow along and just start bouncing around on my step thing to my own rhythm and pattern. so yeah, i’m that dorky girl with the weird hair in the back of the class completely not following along and just bouncing around like some sort of hopped-up fraggle. that’s what i meant by dorking out.
on tuesday and thursday i did body sculpting, which is a combination of squats, abs, pushups, and weird ways to lift dumbells to tone your butt. i have a hard time really pushing myself when i am just working out freely, so as much as i generally don’t get into group activities, i’ve found that going to the scheduled classes at the gym forces me to work out harder than i would on my own. i also want to give props to Reagan for being a super inspiration on the work-out front. she’s just so damned enthusiastic about her own progress that i can’t help but be more motivated to work harder at mine.
besides that, i have been doing other things, even though it feels like all i’m doing is going to work–>gym–>sleep–>work–>gym–>sleep, so to back up to where we left off:
monday 2/2 : went to gym.
tuesday, 2/3: jay DJ’ed on yet another party bus in SF, and we went to ocean beach and the Sutro Baths ruins, which i’d never actually visited. it used to look like this; now it looks like this because somehow, a place filled with water on the edge of the ocean burned down. it was beautiful in the moonlight, but i want to go back there in the daytime. different crew of people, different vibe, different bus, different rules. so, the same, but different, which is good.
wed 2/4: i think i went to the gym.
thurs 2/5, went went to Tres Agaves in SoMa for dinner/margaritas and then I Love You Because… gallery opening, which was really love-filled and moving. the closing party is this saturday 2/14 @ Design Guild in SF.
fri 2/6 former-intern helen invited us to a sock-puppet party in berkeley on friday, which sounded like a fun change of pace. after work i went to Michael’s craft store and got some googly eyes and accessories, and then forced jay to make a sock puppet. we accessorized them even more after we got to the party, and i think they turned out pretty well. the party was fun, although after about 1.5/2 hours, it got just a touch too much to handle because everyone INSISTED that you always talk to their sock puppet, or include the sock puppet in the conversation. these people were very. VERY. into their sock-puppet alter-egos. the best one was the giraffe, by far. imagine a really tall guy with a really long orange sock puppet going around and eating all the plants in the house. i do, however, have more than a little tinge of regret that i didn’t go with judit et.al. to zombie prom that night instead. i mean: LOOK AT THIS. they went to Sizzler. in a white stretch limo. looking (and acting) like zombies. awesome.
sat 2/7 jay is DJ’ed the LoveBomb fashion event @ Mighty in the afternoon, and then we went to Pronoia @ Shine later that night. fashion+music+dancing always makes for a good saturday.
sunday 2/8 we had brunch, walked around west oakland for a while, and then it was off to jason’s for Neva’s 9 month-aversary party.
and then we’re back to the beginning of this post, where i spent all week at work and at the Y, except for dinner with Mary on wednesday night 
this weekend, 2/13-2/16:
tonight we are going to a house/dance party (to be clear, not a house music party. a dance party @ someone’s house, with better music.), tomorrow we shall be attending both the LOVESICK lingerie + fashion show (watch out that site has SOUND! and maybe NSFW images), i as a humble non-runway representative of Miss Velvet Cream and jay as my hot date, and then to the above-linked closing party for I Love You Because. for sunday-monday i’ve rented us a cabin on the ocean up in Jenner, where it will undoubtedly be cold, wet, and rainy, but i think we’ll still have a good time. <3
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“not qualified for hip hop dance class”
_HA_
I saw a video you posted last year (maybe a couple years ago) where you hoop your way around a camp ground. It seems odd to me that you describe yourself as “so.not.coordinated.” I guess there are degrees of uncoordinated. I wish I was your type of uncoordinated.
thx jon, and i would link to that video but it got removed from youtube for copyright violation (fuckers), but i practices several hours a week for 2-3 years before i got any good at hooping, and even then i never could do most of the tricks where the hoop leaves your body/you catch it/you do some behind the back/jump through trick. most of my hooping was “flow” hooping.
i *do* have rhythm, which is different from coordination, which is why i was a fairly good musician and i can dance pretty well when not trying to follow someone else or a pattern. i will still maintain, however, that i am not coordinated, and so anything that involves hand-eye (tennis? omg.) or following someone else’s lead is where i fall way short. trust me on this.
yay for dinner with me on wednesday!
yay! props!
Ditto on the shock of the coordination needed! Before my knee injuries caught up with me I took aerobics and was surprised at how tough it was to follow the moves. I loved it. It made the time pass quickly and I swear it improved my concentration. My knees have been fixed for a few years. I’ve been meaning to take a chance on those kinds of classes and biking again, but I haven’t gotten up the nerve.