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^^^yup, teaching yoga is how she's been supporting herself this year. unsurprisingly, she turned out to be a pretty quick learner at tennis. her hand-eye coordination isn't great -- which makes sense since she never played any kind of ball sport growing up -- but she can move and swing the racket. we're gonna keep playing over here, might even finally get a few lessons once she's making decent money again.

i worked out every day at the beach except one. mainly tennis but also went surfing one day! managed to stand and ride three waves (briefly, but still). life achievement unlocked. an old friend's little sister's boyfriend is a surfer and they live near where we were staying, and he was cool enough to hook me up with a board and a low key lesson. gf was not as disciplined but that's on her.

i'm gonna be a zombie today, arrived home at 4:45 AM (although got bumped to business on the last leg! first time that's happened to me, business class rules). need to go grocery shopping tonight and get back to GMB. i think i'll just restart week 9 and go from there.

ETA: weighed myself on my old scale in DC (crashed there with a friend who's living in my old apartment and so inherited some of my stuff), and i was 180.3. slightly surprising as the scales here were telling me i was in the mid-160s. i'm still lean enough to have visible abs so it doesn't really matter. just a notable data point.

halfway through vacation. went for a run/calisthenics workout in the park with gf in san francisco one day and have been walking a lot but otherwise basically no exercise. it's been kind of exhausting, we're moving around a lot. looking forward to heading to the beach on friday and just sitting still for a while. made a pact with gf to exercise every day -- yoga or calisthenics or tennis or a run or whatever.

i feel like i've said this before, but i chuckle every time i see your signature. it's the best signature on here, and i say that as the guy with the second-best signature.

cheers man, i know that's the way. it's just annoying because i've made progress on everything else. but you're talking to a guy who ground away at trying to dunk, inefficiently but more or less relentlessly, for six years before finally doing it. i'll get there eventually.

inception is a good plane movie. i've never seen solaris, throwing it on the list now. looks tight.

the best sci-fi movie experience of my life is unquestionably watching 2001: a space odyssey in a restored 70mm print in the beautiful old movie theater where i had my first real job, in high school. they had to expand the screen to show it. if you ever have a chance to watch 2001 in a theater, do it. it's awesome. don't even care what you think of the movie as a movie, the visuals and sound are just incredible.

- GMB F1 W9 D1
turns out the biggest issue for me on pirouettes is doing them on non-flat surfaces. they are much easier on flat and smooth ground. lol. motivation has been super low the last couple of days. counting down until i head back to the states for three weeks in the wee hours of friday. i'm so goddamn excited.

John Jordan makes it look too easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Tdt0RsAS4

planting RL from that side just seems so weird to me. still, if he's really 5'10 and that's really a 10' rim, then that's comfortably over 50" off a couple of lazy looking steps. jesus.