Yesterday, I stumbled into Ernie's House of Whoopass (http://www.ehowa.com) and found their reader-submitted stories. Some of them are disgusting, some are making fun of others... but the good ones are those by people who have been really stupid in some point in their past.
It's always comforting to read about other people's problems, which I suppose is the whole basis of Soap Operas. And the SCO news coverage.
And this comfort is welcome, right now.
Today, I'm supposed to be testing to advance to the Purple Sash in Tai Chi (the sequence is white at start, gold, orange, green, blue, purple, red, brown 1, brown2, and then black, I think, though I may have missed something between red and brown). Tuesday we went through "pre-test", which is kind of like warming up for the test.
No problem.
Except we went through the "fast form", something we hadn't covered in class! That's just doing the form really fast; essentially one beat per movement.
Since this isn't how my body had learned to string the motions together, it wasn't about to do it this way. I kept losing my thread. I was floundering. I hate that. A lot.
So, of course, we did this three times.
Right now, I'm trying to re-link the motions in the form so I can go through them one per beat, and it's beginning to come together some. So we'll see.