Holy Heat Index

Things I've recently learned:

*People actually do read this blog, what a motivator!

*That there is a "before you sprain your ankle" and "after you sprain your ankle" life.
Basically "before" means you never think about your ankles. Unless you have cankles and you hate them. But I didn't.
"After" means it always hurts. When you get off of an airplane it will be gigantic. When you step out of a car door and you put all your weight on it because that's how you climb out of the car. It hurts. And it's just really awkward and you have to change a lifetime of habit to actually turn your whole body out of the car to push up. It's so....elderly.
People get tired of hearing about it but you can't stop obsessing because no one ever tells you that it will never be the same. Never. And you didn't even break it.

*That if you wait 2 years to go back to yoga class it definitely is awesome to make your first class back an outdoors class with two drummers and a field full of people all moving together. It almost makes you understand that whole hippie religious aspect of yoga. Almost.

*It's really a nice way to spend an afternoon with people from college who had a common interest with you. What do I mean by this? Well recently my old RC from my RA days organized a "reunion" of sorts of former staffers from his favorite time(s) at Purchase. While I wasn't really part of any of their closer social circles (I don't recall sharing dark secrets with any of them) we all spent time together being RAs. Which meant we all had a common goal, we all had the same desire to be part of that community, we all worked together, and we all respected each other. So it was a really pleasant afternoon.

I was genuinely happy to be there and hear what was happening and what was not happening in our lives. We're all the in the late 20s to early 30s range so some of us are in early career stages, some of us are in "starting all over" stages. Some are in serious relationships some are still out there but none of us are like super settled with three kids and a house sort of thing so it was funny to see how we have all changed but we're still the same... in a non-depressing way.

*And lastly I learned that being around you first "peer" you first friend who is pregnant can be really trippy. Here is this girl you shopped with and hung out with and suddenly there is this...human inside of her. But she's still the same person. It becomes even more surreal when you're chatting away and then the baby shifts inside and you see it move. Whoa.
Anyway, I'm really happy for her. She has the nice little American set-up going on (house, job, growing family) and she's a great example of working hard and knowing what you want and earning it. Love you.