teamnoir (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} teamnoir) wrote,@ 2007-11-21 15:37:00 |
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Stuff, stuff, stuff
Lot's of stuff.
I have tons of stuff I'd like to journal, but keep not finding the time to journal it.
I had a great day a few weeks back. A Friday. Left work early, motorcycled up to Harbin, (http://harbin.org), for a Skydancing tantra singles weekend. Great bike. Nice roads. Fabulous weather including just a hint of rain that smelled like fresh summer rain. Great tunes on my ipod. Etc. Great day.
Last week was "certification week", the culmination of my Skydancing tantra facilitators' training I've been working through for the last couple years. I didn't get certified, but I wasn't expecting to. I thought I had to teach 9 workshop days and that I wouldn't get them in by last week, so I didn't even try. Turns out I only needed 6 workshop days and I could have made that goal. sigh
And now things have changed. I need to sign up with the freshly minted insitute and start paying them per-head for the people who come to my Skydancing Tantra workshops, even before being certified. I had been thinking I'd get the cert, then decide whether I really wanted to be teaching a bunch of these each year. But now I sort of have to make that decision now, sorta. Dunno. I didn't sign the contract. Need to reread it and think some more. I definitely want to be teaching more. The money from teaching more would be really handy. But I'm not sure that this is really what I want to invest in teaching indefinitely.
Anyway, I jumped out of cert week early and ran off to a HAI level 3 workshop for the weekend. Both at Harbin. I didn't even move my tent.
Level 3 was better than the earlier levels, I thought. Partly because the material made more sense and partly because I seem to be learning how to take HAI workshops. But I bailed out of the last exercise and even left HAI and Harbin early. That got me home earlier, and in time to spend some time with Tia, which was good.
Last night, while Tim was visiting, I spent an entirely unhostly amount of time on the phone with one of the HAI facilitators offering my feedback and suggestions. I feel heard. So... *shrug*. Guess we'll see what they do with the info.
New job is still good, but I'm way behind on the learning curve. It would have made a big difference if I'd started the month or two sooner when they first started talking with me instead of waiting around on the time off issue. sigh
And now it's Dickens season. Whoopie. About all I know so far about this year is that it's going to be long. That I'm not going to be going at 5am and staying until late. And that there are some other people I want to be spending time with before the end of the year and I want to find ways to work that in. The terminal superficiality of Dickens is just too draining. I need to do something personally meaningful during this time too.
I'm broke. Sorta. My credit card is maxed. I need a new computer. I want a new camera and new lenses. And I want to be booking the workshops I want to take in 2008, but between maxed out credit card and lack of gender balancing partners, I'm stymied on that front. Also waiting to decide my Skydancing strategy because if I'm going to keep going in that direction, then I may want to commit to assisting for 3 separate weeks in 2008. Wishing I could find ways to push my photography show while it's still hanging so that I can sell more prints - that would help. If I don't, then I probably won't be able to afford to do another show in 2008 and will have to wait till 2009.
On the good side, I had a lovely weekend with a new person just before cert week. And while she lives a few hours away, I'm hoping to spend more time with her soonish. And I had a fine date with another new playmate a couple weeks ago whom I'm also looking forward to spending more time with soon. So play-wise, things are looking up a bit.
Lot's of stuff.
I have tons of stuff I'd like to journal, but keep not finding the time to journal it.
I had a great day a few weeks back. A Friday. Left work early, motorcycled up to Harbin, (http://harbin.org), for a Skydancing tantra singles weekend. Great bike. Nice roads. Fabulous weather including just a hint of rain that smelled like fresh summer rain. Great tunes on my ipod. Etc. Great day.
Last week was "certification week", the culmination of my Skydancing tantra facilitators' training I've been working through for the last couple years. I didn't get certified, but I wasn't expecting to. I thought I had to teach 9 workshop days and that I wouldn't get them in by last week, so I didn't even try. Turns out I only needed 6 workshop days and I could have made that goal. sigh
And now things have changed. I need to sign up with the freshly minted insitute and start paying them per-head for the people who come to my Skydancing Tantra workshops, even before being certified. I had been thinking I'd get the cert, then decide whether I really wanted to be teaching a bunch of these each year. But now I sort of have to make that decision now, sorta. Dunno. I didn't sign the contract. Need to reread it and think some more. I definitely want to be teaching more. The money from teaching more would be really handy. But I'm not sure that this is really what I want to invest in teaching indefinitely.
Anyway, I jumped out of cert week early and ran off to a HAI level 3 workshop for the weekend. Both at Harbin. I didn't even move my tent.
Level 3 was better than the earlier levels, I thought. Partly because the material made more sense and partly because I seem to be learning how to take HAI workshops. But I bailed out of the last exercise and even left HAI and Harbin early. That got me home earlier, and in time to spend some time with Tia, which was good.
Last night, while Tim was visiting, I spent an entirely unhostly amount of time on the phone with one of the HAI facilitators offering my feedback and suggestions. I feel heard. So... *shrug*. Guess we'll see what they do with the info.
New job is still good, but I'm way behind on the learning curve. It would have made a big difference if I'd started the month or two sooner when they first started talking with me instead of waiting around on the time off issue. sigh
And now it's Dickens season. Whoopie. About all I know so far about this year is that it's going to be long. That I'm not going to be going at 5am and staying until late. And that there are some other people I want to be spending time with before the end of the year and I want to find ways to work that in. The terminal superficiality of Dickens is just too draining. I need to do something personally meaningful during this time too.
I'm broke. Sorta. My credit card is maxed. I need a new computer. I want a new camera and new lenses. And I want to be booking the workshops I want to take in 2008, but between maxed out credit card and lack of gender balancing partners, I'm stymied on that front. Also waiting to decide my Skydancing strategy because if I'm going to keep going in that direction, then I may want to commit to assisting for 3 separate weeks in 2008. Wishing I could find ways to push my photography show while it's still hanging so that I can sell more prints - that would help. If I don't, then I probably won't be able to afford to do another show in 2008 and will have to wait till 2009.
On the good side, I had a lovely weekend with a new person just before cert week. And while she lives a few hours away, I'm hoping to spend more time with her soonish. And I had a fine date with another new playmate a couple weeks ago whom I'm also looking forward to spending more time with soon. So play-wise, things are looking up a bit.
