1. My latest addiction: bikram yoga. 90 minutes, a sequence of 26 postures, twice each, in a room somewhere around 105 degrees with 40% humidity. Sounds awful, but it is fantastic. I'm seriously hooked and I actually miss it on my off days. My favorite part is when you finish an awful backbend pose and they say 'if you feel nauseous, that's completely normal.' Sure, there are moments when I want to throw up, curl into the fetal position, or just run out of the room, but I'm totally loving it. 5 days a week for the past few weeks and I can almost touch my forehead to my toes in a wicked forward bend.
2. Dear Soap Opera Channel, thank you for bringing me the joys of The OC, One Tree Hill, and 90210 (the Valerie years). I'm not sitting around all day watching tv, but fortunately my schedule is pretty flexible right now and I've been catching some of these brilliant treasures from yesteryear. Just today, Marissa shot Trey to keep him from beating Ryan to death (after Ryan learned the truth about Trey attacking Marissa), while the family held an intervention after Kaleb's funeral and Kiersten checked into rehab. Riveting I tell you.3. Leisure reading, my old friend. When I started school, everyone told me I'd never have time to read anything but law books, ever. I laughed it off, I guess thinking I had super powers and would have all the extra time I wanted. Needless to say, I'm loving replacing law books with chick lit, John Grisham, and some new favorites. 'Chasing Harry Winston' by the same girl who wrote 'Devil Wears Prada' is my #1 recommendation for this summer's beach read. If you're a Grisham fan and haven't read 'The Appeal,' don't. I could have stopped after 30 pages, but pushed through out of loyalty to the author. Not his best work. Now I'm into 'The Agony and The Ecstasy'- a biography of Michelangelo. While I'm partly loving it because I can pretend I'm still in Florence, this book is crazy interesting and I'm absolutely loving it, which is a good think because its about 800 pages.
2 comments:
Good call on reading while it's summer. After a semester of reading case after case it's nice to read for recreation. I've ventured into Dan Brown books and now I'm finishing Term Limits, by Vince Flynn. Pretty good stuff.
I'm not so sure about your new yoga class--how can exercising in 105 degrees be fun??? Looks like you've had an amazing summer...enjoy it while it lasts.
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