Showing posts with label bad luck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad luck. Show all posts

Monday, July 5, 2010

Aargh, and why gym yoga sucks

Today started off so well.  It really did.  But it got rather unpleasant by the end of the day.  Here's why: I went to a gym yoga class, because it was free, and it was pretty awful.  Terrible sequencing, way too many beginners, bad instructional cues, no anatomical sense in the sequencing, etc.  Example: started in child pose, then down dog, vinyasa, and crow? All within the first 4 minutes of class?  I almost started laughing, because it was fucking ridiculous.  It was also a lot of people who had no idea what they were doing, and I was in pain watching their form, since many of them were ignorantly cruising for a bruising.  So that was pretty upsetting.  It sort of did the trick for what I was going for-I just didn't do the stupid things, and didn't do too many vinyasas, but it was also upsetting.  The other thing I found out today was that my friend, who was watching my car, (but hopefully not driving it much?) took a friend to the emergency room, and then got sideswiped in the parking lot.  (But of course, not while he was in the car, so now there's a huge scrape on my bumper, no police report, which means I can't easily claim it, and I'm not even in the country.)  That's been majorly stressing me out, since I hadn't wanted him to be driving my car much anyways, and for this to have happened so soon after I left is really upsetting.  I know it's not his fault, and I shouldn't be mad at him, but I had given him the key to my car in the hopes that he would move it every now and again, not get it hurt.  Now, a trip to the emergency room is totally justified, but what kind of major bad luck is that?  It's pretty ridiculous.  I'm not sure what to do about it, and I hope he's willing to pay for some of the damage.  Without a police report and more extensive documentation (like proof that the other car hit me) I can't get reimbursed, which he of course didn't realize.  It's just stressful to not be able to do anything about it, and to not be able to do anything about for a month and a half at least.  The damage isn't structural, so the car is still safe to drive, but it looks really bad, and that's upsetting to me.  Either way, I don't know what to do, and I've been emailing people for advice, since my parents would flip if they found out.  I need to fix it before they visit me again, and that's that.

On a more positive side, I'm playing Theofanidis in a recital on Friday, and I'm excited about that.  I also climbed a mountain, and had  a ground squirrel eat from my lap, and sit on my knee.  So cute, it was disgusting.  My friend took some good pix, so hopefully those will follow!

listening to: The passion pit cover of "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins