In an effort to utilise iPad capabilities a bit more, and to blog with more regularity, I have downloaded a new blog updater app to remind me and make it easier. Fulfilling the stereotype, I am seated in a local favourite café, drinking a latté and tagging into their free wifi typing this. Around me are various groovy hip beatnikky Newtown types - the description list would be too long to attempt to clarify but needless to say there ain't too many liberal voters around.
Having had an unexpected entire week off work (bless a building power failure on Tuesday night) I have had a wonderful break from work in (slightly) improving Sydney weather conditions. A bit of time and space to consider the 2012 year and what it could hold. Dreams of moving to Melbourne are fading as an application for an internal job in work three weeks ago has failed to elicit the slightest response, despite me following up on two separate occasions. Tomorrow I will force the issue which will give me an idea of the prospect one way or the other. But as we are now under a cloud of lease termination in three months, and another reason which I can't say anything more on here (yet), it may just be better to get out of the house ASAP and refresh life here in Sydney before making any major moves. The job market (and my employer) are not inspiring confidence at the the moment either.
In a nod to resolutions for the new year, I commenced yoga a couple of weeks ago (Iyengar for the purists). Born with remarkably inflexible muscles, I have never been close to touching my toes or even crossing my right leg over my left without considerable effort. Every Saturday I now have 2 hours of stretching, holding, breathing, holding, sweating, breathing and pins'n'needles in various limbs. But it is very enjoyable and provides a certain self-satisfaction of knowing that I am pushing my (all too limiting) boundaries and social awkwardness in such situations. Of course I am hopeless at it, but determined to continue on a reasonably regular basis - after about 5 classes I certainly feel an improvement in posture and balance. Sitting for 30 minutes in a cross-leg pose helps too. Someone light the incense.
