Day 73: Get a hobby. Wikipedia defines a hobby as “an activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, typically done during one’s leisure time.” Until this past year I really didn’t have any leisure time to speak of, so it is no w0nder that I didn’t really have any hobbies. But now that I do, thanks to the help of MQD I am sometimes gripped by the need to “do something” that is just for me but I don’t really have the desire or the cash flow to back it up. But I think I have found it.
My intermittent obsession with fitness is another post all to itself, but I think I have stumbled in to a new obsession that might actually, if I can figure out a way to swing it without having to sell my ass on a street corner, become a hobby. I bought a ten class pass (which sounds like a super good album name) to a Bikram Yoga studio recently. I enjoy yoga, and try to catch a class at the gym I belong to as often as I can. But I don’t feel that same sense of fuckyeahikickedmyownass like I do after a good run after a yoga class. But Bikram? I feel like a badass when I leave. And it’s not just the 105 degree room. It’s the focus for ninety minutes on something. And admittedly, the fact that I am drenched with sweat doesn’t hurt. The class tends to fill up prior to the start so it requires I get that there about twenty minutes early to get a spot. So, that ninety minute class quickly becomes two hours. Two hours, 120 minutes (great MTV show, sigh) of time for me. I sweat, and I smile and I sweat and I breathe. And I don’t think.
And I feel like this when I leave…
Shout out to Burke Lake park, what! what!
Excitement on the side 