I've had such a freakin' wild day!

I am now starting to talk about yoga less. Things are getting scary around here!

I spent the entire day today, basically, talking. I almost feel like I was stretched completely outside of my social capabilities. It's not like I don't have interactions with other human beings frequently through the day but, in most cases, with some shame, I have to admit that they are mostly via binary... IM, email... Never usually actually talking face to face or, even voice to voice. Pretty much everyone knows how much I loathe talking on the phone! I'm more likely to tell you my life story via IM or email than I ever am if you get me on the phone. So it made for a wild day to actually be face to face with humans for over 5 hours (not consecutively) and actually talk on the phone for an hour. I'm worn out!

I can't talk about a couple of the human interactions. Unfortunately, ehem, more readers than I was aware know me from professional circles so I have now come to fear writing too intimately about my work or career. That's okay, that's the shitty part we have to do anyway.

I also, however, spent time at Back to School night for the kids. This is the night when we get to go meet their teachers, sit at their little desks, write a little love note for them to find in the morning, see the "What I Did This Summer" essay on the wall (OMG I have a child writing a story about what he did this past summer!), catch up with the parents you only ever saw over pick-ups and drop-offs last year ("Oh you got Mrs. B, she's wonderful," or, worse, "Oh, you got Mrs B. Yea, well I heard she's a little strict {or some equally ubiquitous word}").

We're elated over the teachers the kids got. We're really happy The Daughter got the same kindergarten teacher as The Son had... and we know nothing about The Son's teacher except that she's short and looks like she's 18 (but has been teaching for 10 years). She seems awesome and her message sounds great. We've had such a great experience over the past 3 years of school that I've really released all attachment to this teacher or that. I volunteered and will be teaching Kids Yoga one half hour a week in The Daughter's class. Her teacher was really excited by the idea and actually put it on the calendar. Remember the days of having PE everyday? Once a week in today's elementary school. All the teacher's compensate for this lacking but doing particular PE things during the day in the classroom so I imagine this is great for her. It's gonna be really fun except I don't have 20 yoga mats so we'll be on carpet. I imagine kids can adopt pretty easily.

I volunteered as well for The Son's class. In 3rd grade it's a bit harder to schedule time since there are actually academics but his teacher sounded equally enthusiastic about it and we're gonna talk as soon as she starts the actual lesson plans. I will probably ask The Son how he feels about that first. The Daughter is excited but The Son tends to be much shier about stuff like that.

We also signed up to volunteer for regular time in the classroom. I think this is one of the most important things we can do for The Daughter. The son loved it and by first grade, you aren't allowed to actually interact with them as much... then it becomes all cutting construction paper shapes and stuff resembling real work.

It wasn't until much later that I realized I had scheduled these times without even a nod of consideration to my yoga schedule as if suddenly I've forgotten that usually I'm up at 5:30 and practicing before I'm even out of bed right now.

Wow it's going to be painful to go back for more than just musculatory reasons.

Tomorrow I have code to write that is going to require the deep inner zone. I have to prepare for these moments because I can't be messed with. That's when I turn off all communication devices: IM, I shut down my email, I make sure my phone is off (it gets email too). I then plug in the iPod, play music really loud and just figure out how to do something I a) have never done and b) would venture to guess no one else has ever succesfully done yet either. The joys of beta code.

Song Of The Day:
I'm just a face in the crowd
Nothing to worry about
Not even trying to stand out
I'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller
And I got nothing to say
It's all been taken away
I just behave and obey
I'm afraid I am starting to fade away