Yes, yes, I am an e-bosser. I'm notorious for it at this point. I e-bossed my sister via IM the other day, and she changed her headline to: "I've been e-bullied," just because I told her to buy Trav Candyland, among other things. I've done a lot of e-bossing this week.
I've noticed that I tend to be light on posting in January. It's not because I hate January or anything, like other people I know who all uniformly agree it sucks. Although, I went through an introspective, darker period for a few days at the start of the month, but I seem to be coming out of it. Don't worry, I don't need to get on the horn to hightail it back to therapy due to a serious emotional spiral. I am O.K. I finally realized and accepted that I'm a person who cycles through periods of light and dark. It's not useful to fight it, so I try to go with the flow. I tend to get this way at the new year, and sometimes I find that things I thought I'd laid to rest aren't quite done yet and pop up for another round of processing. Even if I know where it's coming from and why, I can't rationalize the emotions away. They are still there for me to deal with the best I can. This knowledge is both helpful and completely frustrating. As the famous quote says, "the best way out is always through," and I do it, but "through" can be a real motherf*cker sometimes. :-)
Anyway, I'm good! Life is busy and productive right now. I started my class this week. I think I'm going to like it. The teacher is quirky, with a very interesting structure for the class. It's based on community learning, and we're broken up into smaller groups. For the final, one member of the group will be randomly selected to take the test, on the day of the test, and the grade that person receives is the grade for the group. On one hand I'm like, GULP, but on the other, I think this is an incredibly fascinating way to build group cohesiveness. I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.
Work is going well. It's very busy for me right now, but I'm doing stuff I like and feeling like I'm accomplishing things. The online dating is fun. I'm enjoying the process way more than I did last time, and I feel like I'm connecting with interesting people. My ankle is feeling so much better! I made it to the gym and walked to work a couple of times this past week, and it felt so wonderful to be more active again. Surprisingly, I've missed the gym. I'm still putting my life in order after all the holiday craziness, but I'm getting there.
Go see Doubt! It's sooooooo amazing. I will gush if I get started, and I feel like I've been gushing a lot lately. Em and I went to see it at the Guild, and the best part was the credits. As we're sitting there soberly watching them roll by, the very last person listed was the Stunt Coordinator. Now, basically this movie is about a couple of nuns, a priest, and some altar boys at a Catholic school. No one is hanging by the chandeliers or jumping from the roof of the church. Usually they are walking or sitting, and it's a lot of talking. Meryl Streep changes a light bulb. Does that count? Bottom line: while full of suspense, there is no action. Both Em and I saw this on the credits, but while I was just sitting there quickly summarizing the movie in my head for stunts, Em exclaimed, "Stunt Director! What?" And we both lost it. I could not stop laughing. There were tears rolling down my face. It's was like the blurry/clear picture debacle with Shannon at Snoqualmie Falls.
I'm so loving this streak of good movies right now.
Molly gave me this fabulous book called Hungry for Paris for Christmas. I'm having a great time going through it, reading all the delicious descriptions, to pick out places to eat on the trip. I'm growing increasingly excited to go. The pull is getting stronger and stronger.
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