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Jun. 7th, 2006 11:41 amDear sinuses,
any time you would like to cease causing me splitting headaches, please feel free to do so. A solid week of this is getting to be a bit much.
regards,
me
My upper body is killing me as well, after 2 hours of yoga on Monday followed by 2 hours of double veil workshop followed by going out dancing at Ceremony, and then an hour or so of cane on Tuesday night. Owwie. I did want to increase my upper body strength though, so I'll look at this as positive pain. The double veil stuff is fun; it's a little more in the realm of circus tricks than actual dancing for me, but I could see using that particular trick at some point, if I can manage some coordination while doing it. I dropped off my double veils at the tailor's yesterday because the unfinished edges are *impossible* to grab on the fly. A rolled edge will give me something that feels distinctive so I'll know when I've got the edge. I don't trust my sewing skills enough to work on fine silk, but it will be worth paying for. I sometimes use one of the veils as an entrance veil, so even if the double veil thing never quite takes off for me, I'll still benefit from having the work done on them.
It was very nice to have a few days off. As usual, I didn't get anywhere near the amount of stuff done that I had planned, but all the important things happened and I did give the bathroom a long overdue cleaning. It's sort of sad when you have to use vacation days to scrub the toilet.
Been watching City of Men on the Sundance Channel--it's a sort of follow-up to the film City of God, a half-hour show about kids in the favelas of Rio de Janiero trying to negotiate their lives in a very difficult place. The social structure aspect of it is fascinating. The drug dealers maintain their power not just through brute force but also by becoming neighborhood arbiters, resolving disputes and rendering judgments. They are simultaneously resented and respected. For a short half-hour show, City of Men conveys so much in each episode. Many subjects are approached with humor (as last week, when one kid outlined the Napoleonic wars as though they occured between different hills in the favela), but there's always a seriousness (often a deadly seriousness) underneath it all. One scene this week showed a kid trapped between a gang of his peers set on beating him and the police-manned boundary of the favela, and it conveyed so clearly how there can be no escape from the socio-economic-political factors that rule the poor. I hope in some way this show can help the residents of the favelas who are trying to lead straight lives--it apparently was a big hit in Brazil.
Back to work...
any time you would like to cease causing me splitting headaches, please feel free to do so. A solid week of this is getting to be a bit much.
regards,
me
My upper body is killing me as well, after 2 hours of yoga on Monday followed by 2 hours of double veil workshop followed by going out dancing at Ceremony, and then an hour or so of cane on Tuesday night. Owwie. I did want to increase my upper body strength though, so I'll look at this as positive pain. The double veil stuff is fun; it's a little more in the realm of circus tricks than actual dancing for me, but I could see using that particular trick at some point, if I can manage some coordination while doing it. I dropped off my double veils at the tailor's yesterday because the unfinished edges are *impossible* to grab on the fly. A rolled edge will give me something that feels distinctive so I'll know when I've got the edge. I don't trust my sewing skills enough to work on fine silk, but it will be worth paying for. I sometimes use one of the veils as an entrance veil, so even if the double veil thing never quite takes off for me, I'll still benefit from having the work done on them.
It was very nice to have a few days off. As usual, I didn't get anywhere near the amount of stuff done that I had planned, but all the important things happened and I did give the bathroom a long overdue cleaning. It's sort of sad when you have to use vacation days to scrub the toilet.
Been watching City of Men on the Sundance Channel--it's a sort of follow-up to the film City of God, a half-hour show about kids in the favelas of Rio de Janiero trying to negotiate their lives in a very difficult place. The social structure aspect of it is fascinating. The drug dealers maintain their power not just through brute force but also by becoming neighborhood arbiters, resolving disputes and rendering judgments. They are simultaneously resented and respected. For a short half-hour show, City of Men conveys so much in each episode. Many subjects are approached with humor (as last week, when one kid outlined the Napoleonic wars as though they occured between different hills in the favela), but there's always a seriousness (often a deadly seriousness) underneath it all. One scene this week showed a kid trapped between a gang of his peers set on beating him and the police-manned boundary of the favela, and it conveyed so clearly how there can be no escape from the socio-economic-political factors that rule the poor. I hope in some way this show can help the residents of the favelas who are trying to lead straight lives--it apparently was a big hit in Brazil.
Back to work...
