Archive for January, 2003
hands and arms
this week in massage school we practiced the head/neck/shoulders massage we learned last week, and we were introduced to the hand and arm techniques. elyse, the instructor, also showed up how to employ proper body mechanics in our work. mostly, she taught us the correct positions of standing/kneeling, using the force of the entire body ...Read more.
land animals
When Rick and I got together, I had been a pescatarian, meaning a vegetarian who was still eating sea creatures, but had recently started to eat land creatures again. my reasons for taking up eating meat again were largely social, but when Rick and I moved in together, since I worked and he did not, ...Read more.
announcing the new paulbrown.net
i was waiting for some great inspiration to hit me for a look to the new site, but one never materialized, so i decided to go with the most simple look i could. http://www.paulbrown.net/ the old content is still there, but there are no links to it anymore. i’m going to figure a way to ...Read more.
a box of kittens haiku contest
thanks to albadger for suggesting this in gusmacroy‘s journal. i have disabled posting comments so everyone writes their own haiku in their own journal. more readership that way, i think. write the best haiku you can beginning with “a box of kittens” for instance: a box of kittens mewling beneath a full moon five cries ...Read more.
of men and lycra
I met a really nice guy while in Tucson at Fiesta, one David R. He runs a Yahoo! Group called bearslycraspeedo devoted to pics and messages from bearish men into wearing wrestling singlets, speedos, and other garments made from lycra. Also, many of the men on the list are into wrestling, as well. Well, it’s ...Read more.
a pic that came out ok
Surprise, surprise, one that actually looks ok.
Upcoming NYC trip
I’m going to be in NYC from February 7 through 11. albadger and I will be seeing Hairspray and Il Pirata. ultrabithorax is going to come to see Shanghai Moon with us, too. Any LJers wanna meet up sometime that weekend for some coffee or tourguide, or something?
Fiesta Update
http://www.bearfinder.com/ has photos from both the pie ceremony and Friday night’s Roman-themed dinner. You have to be a member to see them, but it’s completely free to sign up and use.
moan
i tend to suffer. it started with a small cough in tucson, but now is a full-blown headache and green-brown phelgm hack. of course, the fact that i didn’t blow my nose right after my massage last night may be part of the reason.
massage school, night two
tonight at massage school we studied the skeletal and muscular systems of the head and neck. Our instructor, Elyse, is a bit scatterbrained, but a skilled practioner of the somatic arts. she knows her anatomy but seems to have a hard time verbalizing it in a useful way. once the lecture was over, though, and ...Read more.
Fiesta, and what should probably remain hidden
A whirlwind of activity starting back two Fridays ago. Laundry. Oil Change. No time to pack, just bring all the clean laundry with me. Hmm, what’s up with the cable modem. I’ll deal with that when I get back. San Francisco to pick up bigjohnsf for the long drive down to Hollywood. John and I ...Read more.
The joys of customer service.
Well, I’m back online – AT&T Broadband decided that even though I had paid their fees, they would come out and disconnect me. This I learned last night when I called them wondering why my cable modem wouldn’t sync up. I have come to detest what passes for customer service today, where telephone flunkies pass ...Read more.
