Still no job... but today was a good one

First off, I got up this morning and there was an episode of A Makeover Story on that I hadn't seen before.

After watching that, I did some yoga. Yeah, my yoga doing didn't end with the end of my class this Spring. I'm telling you, I wouldn't have believed it if you'd told me a year ago that in a year I'd be doing yoga on my own in my living room, but, this stuff REALLY WORKS. Instantly, I felt REINVIGORATED - like I haven't felt in weeks - and I only did about a half an hour of the stuff.

I showered, and still feeling all "alive", I decided that I needed to go out to a nearby park and get some sun [I've been getting a bit pale and sickly looking...]. I grabbed an old sheet, my water bottle, and the book that I've been reading [Salamandastron - the 5th book in the Redwall series - or, as Brian likes to call them: Mouse-y Tales...], and proceeded down the stairs. But, oh, the mail had come, and there on the steps was MY PACKAGE FROM GREECE!

[Background on the package from Greece: A few months ago I found out that one of my absolute favorite bands, The Blue Nile, was going to be releasing a new album this summer. Normally, this wouldn't be THAT exciting, except that the Blue Nile have only put out 3 albums [now 4] in the past 25 years, their last album appearing in 1996. I was SO giddy that I mentioned my excitement on a couple of music related bulletin boards that I frequent, and, a couple of weeks ago, received an email from a guy saying that he saw my post about the Blue Nile and that he works for the music label in Greece that is going to be distributing the new Blue Nile album. As a reward for my excitement, he decided to SEND ME A PROMOTIONAL COPY OF THE NEW ALBUM, A MONTH AND A HALF BEFORE IT IS RELEASED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. I freaked out. This was the coolest thing. Damn, I love the internet. Back to the story...]

I grabbed the package, tore it open, out fell the NEW BLUE NILE ALBUM [!] [along with promo copies of the latest albums by Tim Booth, Elbow, and MORRISSEY - this Greece guy rocks!], so I grabbed it, along with a CD walkman and headphones, and headed out to a park a few blocks away. At the park, I found a nice spot in the grass under the sun, spread the blanket on the ground, pulled the walkman out of my bag, put the headphones on, and...

..there I sat, on a hill of freshly mowed grass, under a bright San Francisco sky; a bank of fog covering Twin Peaks so that only the tippy-top of Sutro Tower could be spied; bees dancing from flower to flower; a motley group of 20-somethings wearing Rasta hats and Bob Marley t-shirts "smoking up" a few yards away; and scattered homeless people and day-laborers taking naps in the shade of trees here and there. Yes, there I was, with headphones on, a huge smile on my face, wind whipping through my hair, a tear in my eye, taking in the sublime beauty of my first listen to "High" by the Blue Nile. Glorious.

6:45pm and I STILL feel invigorated. Yoga rocks.

Oh, and the day isn't over - we've still got Last Comic Standing and the BEST and MOST EXCITING SHOW on TV, Amazing Race, to watch. What an awesome day, huh?!