Things that make you go hmmm...

I don't think TT and PMS are a good pair. Let me just say that right off the bat. I've been plenty irritable this week and, of course, here at TT there are plenty of things to get irritable about.

Monday started off seemingly fine, we had a wonderful morning class with Diane Ducharme. She's a great, great teacher and it's nice to hear a familiar voice at the podium that you know and love and trust. I am really hoping to get mentoring from her when I get back home. It's like we have our very own Posture Clinic lead right in our home town who willingly helps new teachers. You cannot beat that! Anyway, the class was great and I came home and made breakfast and was feeling fine, but as the day progressed I started to feel progressively more nauseous and headachey. I was guzzling water all day, coconut water, citrus fruits, but by 5pm it became clear to me that I was dehydrated. Yippppeeee! I sat out most of the 5pm class and came home for dinner and just felt awful. Luckily, my downstairs neighbor had some Pedialyte on hand and after about a half a bottle of that (blech) I started feeling better. That night I presented Eagle in Posture Clinic and it went fine considering I was all amped up on Pedialyte :)

Yesterday I was feeling better and we had a great class with Lynn in the am, lecture with Dr. T in the (hot as hell) tent when we found out that Bikram was back! I had mixed emotions upon seeing him. Yes, I missed his energy, but his late night lectures? Not so much. I seemed to catch up on my dehydration and was feeling pretty good for most of the day. We had some visiting teachers get up and introduce themselves and one said she was the "grumpy one in the back with her hoodie up" and that after she taught her first class she suddenly understood why they were being kept up all night to watch "Mahabarata". Um...I call bullshit. I'm getting really tired of the visiting teachers telling us about how wonderful this experience was and how it was the best time of their lives, etc. It's so annoying. Sure, now that you are done with it you can look back and say it was valuable and awesome, but I'd like to see you when you were going through it. Honestly, it's something that annoys me to NO END. Stop telling us how awesome it was for you, we don't really care! We are going through it right now, let us have our experience and when we're done we can erase all the late nights from our memories too. Ugh.

Anyway, after our afternoon class with John from the the Williamsburg, NYC studio we were told to be in lecture at 9:30pm. People were actually excited to not have posture clinic. You know, the whole reason we are actually here? To learn the dialogue? Anyway, after a 2.5 hour "lecture" about who knows what (topics ranged from his recent trip to Vegas to talking about the Mahabarata- just put the thing on alredy) he put the movie on. I couldn't tell you one thing about it. I was asleep.

Trust the process.