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I had an odd realization last night. I assign characteristics and superstitions to beds a lot. Like, every bed seems to have a different sort of effect on me. I have my superstition that sleeping on top bunks in Canada gives me a cold, or really just gets me sick in general. The beds in the SoLita Hotel in New York are just too small to share between restless sleeper me and my light sleeper mother without either of us waking up a bunch. My dorm bed last year was the insomnia bed because it took ages to fall asleep in. And yesterday I realized that my bed here evokes a...longing, I guess is the best way to put it. Perhaps loneliness. It's funny because any time during the day I sit and think about it I conclude that I don't really want a relationship or a fling or anything of that sort really, but when I'm curled up under the covers about to try to fall asleep I always have to imagine a pair of arms wrapping around me in a vaguely protective manner. I dunno what it's about, but it's hard to fall asleep without that image/feeling. So, there's another feather in my crazy hat. Although I think I kinda like this one. Not the loneliness, but the fact that different beds evoke different bits of me.
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I seem to have stumbled into doing graphic design. Really, it's only been for my mom, but I guess I just didn't expect to be doing this for anyone, ever. So far I've only done a stationary, business cards, and a confidentiality agreement sheet, but I'm also supposed to re-do the stationary so it can be more of a notepad size and a couple variations on receipts. It's for her Feldenkrais practice. Oh, I'm also doing her website. Well, sorta. She's writing the website, I'm just putting it together through the tools given to us at the place she bought her domain name from. So, pretty soon www.kineticinsight.net will be up and running. I wish I had the skills to code it from scratch, but if I were to do it that way there's be a lot of book referencing and it'd end up looking like those silly basic-html pages from the mid-90s that are still up on Angelfire and Geocities and such.
That reminds me: I ought to make myself some business cards.
Also, I bet a bunch (or most) of you are unaware of Feldenkrais. It's a movement therapy. Probably the easiest way to describe it is as a mix between massage and Pilates. Basically the goal of it is to put you through things (Awareness Through Movement classes) to help you figure out how you move, and how your body wants to move, and how to tweak your movements if needed to keep you from injuring yourself or to prevent habits from developing too far. In my case: I stand with my feet a little too wide apart, and that combined with tight, unforgiving ski boots has led to me having bunions on the outside of my feet. Most people get them just below their big toe first. So, I need to be aware of how I stand and hold myself so I can prevent them from getting worse. A cool thing it helped my mom with during her training was her lower back. To become a practitioner you have to go to class every day for a month, for a total of eight months. For whatever reason they space them 6 months apart, so it takes four years to do. But a lot of the classes are basically just putting the trainee through some of the classes they might teach later on, and them making them both give and receive the one-on-one Functional Integrations. A lot of people just do the training to heal themselves, with no desire to teach it themselves. My mom started it partially because she wanted to renew her massage license (you have to get additional training every 2 years) and partially because it interested her and she wanted to get certified. Now, four years later, she no longer has lower back pain (and I remember her telling me when I was little that she had something similar to scoliosis, but that her spine had excess of the natural curve or something instead of the scoliosis extra, sideways curve) and is starting her own business to teach this. It's cool, she has classes up at the ProFitness near our house, and is partnered at a studio that she goes into a couple days a week. She also has people come to our house or our cabin to do FIs. I've probably done a really bad job explaining this, but it's definitely a cool alternative method of Physical Training. If I've piqued your interest at all check out The Feldenkrais website. I bet they can explain it a lot better than me
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I seem to have stumbled into doing graphic design. Really, it's only been for my mom, but I guess I just didn't expect to be doing this for anyone, ever. So far I've only done a stationary, business cards, and a confidentiality agreement sheet, but I'm also supposed to re-do the stationary so it can be more of a notepad size and a couple variations on receipts. It's for her Feldenkrais practice. Oh, I'm also doing her website. Well, sorta. She's writing the website, I'm just putting it together through the tools given to us at the place she bought her domain name from. So, pretty soon www.kineticinsight.net will be up and running. I wish I had the skills to code it from scratch, but if I were to do it that way there's be a lot of book referencing and it'd end up looking like those silly basic-html pages from the mid-90s that are still up on Angelfire and Geocities and such.
That reminds me: I ought to make myself some business cards.
Also, I bet a bunch (or most) of you are unaware of Feldenkrais. It's a movement therapy. Probably the easiest way to describe it is as a mix between massage and Pilates. Basically the goal of it is to put you through things (Awareness Through Movement classes) to help you figure out how you move, and how your body wants to move, and how to tweak your movements if needed to keep you from injuring yourself or to prevent habits from developing too far. In my case: I stand with my feet a little too wide apart, and that combined with tight, unforgiving ski boots has led to me having bunions on the outside of my feet. Most people get them just below their big toe first. So, I need to be aware of how I stand and hold myself so I can prevent them from getting worse. A cool thing it helped my mom with during her training was her lower back. To become a practitioner you have to go to class every day for a month, for a total of eight months. For whatever reason they space them 6 months apart, so it takes four years to do. But a lot of the classes are basically just putting the trainee through some of the classes they might teach later on, and them making them both give and receive the one-on-one Functional Integrations. A lot of people just do the training to heal themselves, with no desire to teach it themselves. My mom started it partially because she wanted to renew her massage license (you have to get additional training every 2 years) and partially because it interested her and she wanted to get certified. Now, four years later, she no longer has lower back pain (and I remember her telling me when I was little that she had something similar to scoliosis, but that her spine had excess of the natural curve or something instead of the scoliosis extra, sideways curve) and is starting her own business to teach this. It's cool, she has classes up at the ProFitness near our house, and is partnered at a studio that she goes into a couple days a week. She also has people come to our house or our cabin to do FIs. I've probably done a really bad job explaining this, but it's definitely a cool alternative method of Physical Training. If I've piqued your interest at all check out The Feldenkrais website. I bet they can explain it a lot better than me
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