Body time

Last night I had my first real yoga class, taught by Mr. Christopher himself. It was really good! He's actually a good teacher and has good control over when to change his instructions to a more urgent, joking, or gentle tone. I know you're supposed to tell your friends they're excellent no matter what, but there is no pretense here. It was just hard enough. I should've known he'd be good since he has one of the best storytelling voices I've ever heard, but there you go.

So, I like yoga. I'm gonna try and stick with it for a while. Today I looked in the mirror and noticed my face looked clearer and brighter than normal. Really very pretty if I do say so myself. Could it be related to yoga? Who knows. Also, yoga made me farty. There's this passing wind pose that made me really have to fart. I tried to be as gentle on my mat neighbors as possible. Joe thinks it could've been related to the Chilean food we ate for lunch, but I think he's just making excuses for the highly amplified toot he let off during class.

Today I saw the Lord of the Rings exhibit at Te Papa. Kris, Clodagh, and I had our pictures taken with a technique that took advantage of a scaling illusion to cause someone on one end of the bench to look huge while those on the other end looked tiny, similar to what they did with the hobbits in LOTR ( Elijah Wood, my birthday mate, is short but he's not 3'6"). We're gonna scan them and then I'll stick em up here.