Thanks to everyone who played this last round of Everyone’s Favorite Online Collaborative Poetry Game™, Exquisite Corpse: 
David (annoyinghandle), darkphuque, thom413, profkampf, tbone1961, buckinva, popebuck1, TruckerBear, zbear20, Hot Throbbing White Trash (bobaloo), Richard (bear_with_me), , and jason_the_great.
Gloved thumb,
clockwise rotation.
caresses tightly,
touches lightly,
stings slightly,
repeated nightly.
Always politely
Perky! Spritely!
Fondling lobes,
knowingly probes,
grazing globes.
invading darkly
secretly sparking
sparking euphoria
Euphoric Longings
Love ungloved
Burnt toast,
unfulfilled boast.
After Saturday’s Dim Sum’s Sprint through my intestines, I was feeling a little haggard, even with all the water I started drinking Sunday morning, but I trooped on down to Beale Street to find Foggy City Dancer’s contingent in the Pride Parade. After searching around for a bit, I discovered them near the bears and the colts.
We were having to trot along for a good portion of the parade, and barely got three calls in at any one time when we were able to stop… not terribly conducive to dancing, but there’s always next year.
After that, I headed off to a quick lunch at that Howard and 9th BK, where I met a bunch of BOSF bears, who were also lunching, and en masse we hit up the Lone Star. It got to be really packed there, so my senses were a bit overwhelmed, and Trey and I headed down to the Eagle, where it was crowded, but more manageable. Richard, Trey, and I had dinner together to discuss their upcoming commitment ceremony - I am utterly honored that they asked me to be their Officiant. I’ve done weddings before, but this will be my first Commitment Ceremony, and I’m thrilled that it’s Richard and Trey.
Supper was the camelsback, and I plodded home, up Steiner to Fell as is my newly forming habit, and after a quick message check, hit the rack hard.
Did an 8am client, then headed out to Sanchez and Market to look at a potential storefront for my massage practice, breakfast at Sparky’s and now I’m readying to leave for school.
Did I say sprinting? I meant zooming!
This morning’s client was lovely to work with. After he left, I quickly rinsed off in the shower and threw on some dry clothes for my 2pm lunch date. He drove in from the East Bay and we went over to Clement Street to pick up some dim sum, then off to Stow Lake. The bakery we purchased lunch from wasn’t anywhere nearly as good as Wing Lee, where, BigJohnSF and I often go to have lunch.
Which brings me to the point of this post… laptops are so useful - you can post from anywhere in the house. That wretched dim sum is making Baby Jeezus cry… hopefully I can get back in bed shortly and let my guts stop churning.
Oh, yeah, the date was really fun!
The first Kinesiology class was today, but first up, the Bones and Muscles test. A 60 question fill in the blanks on the skeleton and musculature drawings. One guess how I did… *yawn*
Boredom really sucks. Today in Kinesiology, we discuss the three types of joints:
- Fibrous (synarthrotic): no or very slight movement, such as the suture joints of the bones of the cranium, or the distal tibialfibula joint. These types of joints have a very fibrous connective tissue between them that keeps them from moving.
- Cartilaginous (amphiarthrotic): slight movement, as the cartilaginous attachements of the ribs to the sternal body, or the pubic symphysis, which opens up for women during childbirth to allow the baby’s head to pass through the pelvis, and the intervertebral joints, which allow for spinal flexion and extension.
- Synovial (diarthrotic): freely moveable. These are the joints of the articulate skeleton, and contain joint capsules with have a bursa, a cushioning sac full of synovial fluid, which lubricates the joint. The six types of Synovial joint:
- Ball and Socket: The shoulder and hip joints are ball and socket joints. They allow for movement is every direction, called circumduction. The shoulder allows for flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, elevation, depression, rotation.
- Hinge: the most common joint in the body. The elbows, ankles, knees, toes, fingers, jaw are all hinge joints. They allow for flexion and extension.
- Ellipsoid: The wrist and the third knuckle of each finger are examples of Ellipitcal joints. They allow for flexion, extention, adduction, and abduction.
- Saddle: A modified Ellipsoid joint, the second knuckle of the thumb and great toe is a saddle joint. It allows for opposition, the moving of the thumb against the fingers.
- Gliding: The bones of the base of the hand (carpals) and the foot (tarsals) have gliding joints. This joint allows for slight sliding movements, and in the case of the foot, inversion (turning the sole up to the medial) and eversion (turning the foot up to the lateral).
- Pivot: In this joint, one bone turns around the axis of the other bone. The Axis and Atlas (C-1 and C-2 verterbrae in the neck), and the Ulna and Radius both have pivot joints. In the neck, this joint allows for rotation of the cervical spine - to turn our heads from side to side, and in the forearm, allows us to pronate and supinate our hand.
Yes, I knew all of this already. I’m just a little bit doubting the wisdom of my decision to come to this school. I know that once we are done with the Swedish segment, there will be other segments that I will be learning, but even in some of those, I have done some studying on my own, and suspect that I am going to know much of the material that will be presented.
I’m hopeful, though, and will continue to attend, empyting my cup to try to take in the information they are teaching.
OK, so maybe I’m not a saint; I knew there would be trouble when I chose the worst student in class to partner with for the Swedish Massage eval next week. And yesterday her casual and sloppy hands across my nipples was more than a little disconcerting. And maybe her sharp long fingernails raking on my rhomboids did draw a little blood. I figured that she’s got to get better as we practice more.
Baby Jeezus needs a tissue now. Today, during our practice, I worked on her just fine, and then it was her turn to work on me. She doesn’t have the sequence memorized, and let out around one third of the strokes, and of the rest, many were in the wrong order, or strokes that aren’t in the sequence, like the deep thumb pressure under the clavicle. Ouch!
At least she cut her nails like I had asked (demanded). She’s going through menopause, and her emotions are all over the place, and I could tell that she was not feeling it for this session. Yet, she needs the practice, so I let her touch me. Poor me. I could feel her frustration building as the session went on, and it was all being transferred to me. When I got off that table, I was so angry and upset that the top of my head could have exploded. But I instead of venting to her, I went outside and took some air, then I came back and calmly discussed it with her.
We have two more practice sessions before next Thursday’s eval. Oh, gawd, but I need a drink! Where’s the gin and tonic when you really need one?
Here’s my entry to profkampf’s LJ Deck of Cards Project.
Clicking the image reveals the full-sized version.
It was fun to do, and I am amazed at extraordinary talent displayed by the other participants, but I think the joke has gone over everyone’s heads.
So, I wonder, do the physically attractive have an easier time building social networks than the less physically attractive? I mean attractive in the context of the bear community, with its emphasis on secondary male sexual characteristics as a sign of beauty.
Do you think that if someone is considered to be more attractive that they have entreé to social circles that might otherwise be less available to less attractive members of the community? Or do you think it’s all about social graces and manners, charisma, if you will? Or is there economic class involved? Racial divisions, physical handicaps; do these play any role in what makes a person popular? What about celebrity?
And what do I mean by popular anyway? Anthony Berno makes a good point when he says “well-connected” and “influential” as a benchmark for measuring the appearance of popularity.
So, in other words, how does one gain a foothold into the realms of the socially elite in the bear community?
I love the irony of coming out as a submissive bottom, and then suddenly finding myself just wanting to bang the otter pups and beefy cubbies all the time. What’s up with that? I mean, my dick has suddenly been rock hard all the time and just finding its way into the throats and butts of these sweet young things. I’ve been feeling very paternal toward them, too, and being called Papabear while I’m giving someone a buttful of me is very appealing.
Arrgh!! Why does sex have to be so mercurial?
Thanks to Mondragon for linking to this surreal and bizarre commercial. I really don’t know what exactly to say about it. Comments?
‘boards - Screening Room
Walked like a finely tuned construct
over to a reminiscent part of the Castro to have a conversation,
then walked back.
The noteworthy part of the walk back
was where I walked up Steiner
from Duboce Park to Fell Street,
then down to that humble palace, UGH.
Mindful of my body’s need for water,
I had loaded up on the way out and back,
breathing though my nose as much as
I possibly could to stay in the moment.
Around 80 percent.
The resultant expiration was around 20 drops.
I stretched twice,
deeply on the walk back,
but I came from my body’s neutral position, and kept my mind alert.
I feel a lovely sense of euphoria because of this accomplishment.
My body feels very energetic, full of airy goodness as I write these words.
I drank 6 more glasses of water when I got home, and am going to bed. Class awaits!
