Ramble, ramble, ramble

[terrie]

First, got contracts raw numbers, but not yet calculted for grade curve (avg:23.5, me:27). Yeah! I feel like less of an idiot. (Of course, this was a multiple choice test).

Tai Chi. I seriously love Tai Chi. (Have you noticed?) I like that my knees, which were always weak and bothered me, now only ache after class, and then only because I've been working hard. I'm not in great shape, but at least I'm doing better than I was a few months ago. Since new years (w/vacation, less than 3 weeks) we've had over 20 new people show up. Possibly over 30. It's kinda shocking. Of course, you have to wonder how many of them will be here come summer. Two of the people I started with stopped coming around Thanksgiving and a couple of others only come once or twice a week, intead of three or four times. There's one gal who tends to look like she's doing an interpertive dance version of Tai Chi. It kinda drives me nuts to watch her. Of course, she's only been coming for a week, so I cut her some slack. It's TOUGH when you first start. Of course, if she's still doing it after a month, I reserve the right to be seriously annoyed.

Other than school and Tai Chi, I have no life, so I have nothing else to say, unless you want to read about food (I've learned to make chocolate mousse). God, I'm boring.

Comments

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

I am currently thrilled to have a long Monday night class this semester, only because I can go to tai chi on Thursdays now myself.

And I'm kind of curious what an "interpretive dance version" of tai chi looks like. Too fast? Too exaggerated in the arm movements? (My class is just doing Chen style, and it's a beginner therapeutic after-work class, just so you know.)

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Overly exaggerated arm AND leg movements. (I do Yang style, long form). For instance, instead of turning the wirst to go from palm up to palm down, she do a big whole arm cirle. And when we have to step, she picks up her foot all the way up to knee level. The style I do have measured beats that we do against a count, so it's really hard to go too fast.

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

For instance, instead of turning the wirst to go from palm up to palm down, she do a big whole arm cirle.

Just visualizing that makes me want to laugh. My instructor is still correcting my posture, but I just forget to tuck my tailbone as well as drop it. He'd have a field day with her. Oy.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Well, she's only just started, so hopefully she'll outgrow the tendency. But it's very distracting. And I know about the butt sticking thing. Someone told methat you should pretend that your pelvic bone is a bowl of water and if you stick your butt out, the water will spill.