Post-mountain plans

It's finally cooling down here on the mountain. I went for a lovely walk today and barely broke a sweat, as opposed to nearly drowning as was usual before. As I sit here and look out the window, the fog is engulfing the mountain, which promises a cool night. Hopefully it'll be in the 50's or 60's from here on out. I AM DONE WITH CALIFORNIA HEAT!!!



It's been a bit since I've updated this blog... things are still really grand. I've stopped attending asana classes pretty much completely, and I'm not sure if that is necessarily a blatantly bad thing. As most of the classes here are at 6:30am and I tend to sleep extremely poorly here, I started becoming really run down and needing to nap during the day, which didn't help the sleeping at night. So I decided to gift myself mornings with no alarm clocks on most days. I figure I deserve it after all of those opening shifts at Starbucks anyway! So I'm feeling overall better than when I was waking up at 6am, but at the same time I really miss asana. And I guess my patience ran out with the evening classes as I continued to be uninspired by them. I miss my practice at home... I really do.



I've been reading SO much and writing in my journal daily as well. Meg and I always spend plenty of time checking in with one another and being leisurely. Last night we watched "Once" which was a darling little movie filled with horrible acting which almost added to it's charm. The music of course was great, and it didn't occur to me until it was mentioned in the DVD extras (and after having listened to the soundtrack regularly for the last year) that Glen Hasard is the singer for The Frames, who I've actually seen perform live back in 2004 when they opened for Damien Rice at the State Theatre. I even have their album... ha. Great music anyway :-)



I spent a bit of time in San Francisco with Charles about a week ago and had a lovely time. It had been a few years since we'd spent any significant time together and I can't recall enjoying his company more. We stayed at Hotel Kabuki in Japantown which was super duper nice. The room had it's own sauna!
We ate at Herbavore for dinner. Fantastic. The next day we went down to Monterey and went to the aquarium! SO cool. Absolutely a highlight of my time here. The jellyfish and the leafy sea dragons were my favorite. Here are some pictures (not ones I took, but from their website.)

I'm starting to formulate plans for life post Mount Madonna, which is very exciting and a little scary. At the end of my session here, my plan is to catch a bus up to Humbolt for a couple of days to see Charles's place, then fly up to Eugene, Oregon. I'll stay in a hostel for a couple of nights and spend my days checking out the city. Then I'll catch a bus to Portland, OR, and do the same there before flying home to Portland, ME!!!! I'll be staying with the 'rents in Gardiner for a bit while I get back on my feet and procure a job and such.

I'm so very excited about my life going forward. I can't wait to get back to school... yes, that's right, school. Well, sort of. Not going into it right now. But yeah. I have plans. And I'm psyched.

Love to you all.