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It's amazing how easily a 3-week road trip will strip me of all my carefully accumulated home living habits. I live near a ridiculous number of food sources -- 2 blocks to a 24 hour grocery store, less than that to an Aldi, 2 more 24-hour grocery stores within 5 minutes' drive, plus half a dozen convenience stores within 1 block of me. Not to mention the huge range of restaurants -- I can count 7 different ethnic cusines within 2 blocks of me (Southern, American Grill, Sub/Hoagie, Chinese, Ethiopian, Italian, Irish....which may be cheating, but still! Variety!) and despite all this, what have I done every time I felt hungry since getting back late Wednesday night? I open my fridge, stare at its emptiness, and then go back to playing computer games.
It's time for me to get back on my home schedule. Actually, it's time for me to get onto my proposed home schedule which I keep putting off. This includes going to the Sivenda Yoga center for a 90 minute program, followed by a 30 minute jog on the Broadway Armory's treadmills, and (since it's Friday) attending a Gita Study class at the same location, before heading to the Dungeon.
I brought a book my dad had lent me a while ago on my trip, and it was really nice to be reading Hindu philosophy again. I had forgotten just how deeply steeped all of Western thinking is in duality, in Good vs Evil, in the idea that humans "deserve" things. Reading a treatise on overcoming conflict based in the belief system I was raised in was....overwhelmingly relaxing. I'm really looking forward to the Gita Study class.
Tomorrow is the Creative Chicago Expo, which was originally called the Chicago Creative Housing Expo. I <3 free education! It's a collection of seminars on how to take advantage of Chicago resources as a self-employed creative professional or a non-profit organization, with heavy emphasis on acquiring real estate. Thankfully, they podcast all the courses, so I don't have to complain about the double-bookings. These are the classes I'm considering:
( courses )
But other than that, I just have to restock my fridge, remember what my social life looks like, edit all the photos that I took from my trip, apply all the things that I learned to my booth sales, and implement at least 3 new website resdesigns (the gallery, the blog, the commercial portfolio, and the BDSM Education website). So, it's going to be an easy month.
It's time for me to get back on my home schedule. Actually, it's time for me to get onto my proposed home schedule which I keep putting off. This includes going to the Sivenda Yoga center for a 90 minute program, followed by a 30 minute jog on the Broadway Armory's treadmills, and (since it's Friday) attending a Gita Study class at the same location, before heading to the Dungeon.
I brought a book my dad had lent me a while ago on my trip, and it was really nice to be reading Hindu philosophy again. I had forgotten just how deeply steeped all of Western thinking is in duality, in Good vs Evil, in the idea that humans "deserve" things. Reading a treatise on overcoming conflict based in the belief system I was raised in was....overwhelmingly relaxing. I'm really looking forward to the Gita Study class.
Tomorrow is the Creative Chicago Expo, which was originally called the Chicago Creative Housing Expo. I <3 free education! It's a collection of seminars on how to take advantage of Chicago resources as a self-employed creative professional or a non-profit organization, with heavy emphasis on acquiring real estate. Thankfully, they podcast all the courses, so I don't have to complain about the double-bookings. These are the classes I'm considering:
( courses )
But other than that, I just have to restock my fridge, remember what my social life looks like, edit all the photos that I took from my trip, apply all the things that I learned to my booth sales, and implement at least 3 new website resdesigns (the gallery, the blog, the commercial portfolio, and the BDSM Education website). So, it's going to be an easy month.