Last week I worked with my new personal trainer, Boxing Lady, for the first time. She comes indirectly from the Fat Acceptance movement in San Francisco, which was a great surprise to learn when I interviewed her. I worried that she wouldn't push me as hard as other trainers because she specializes in working with larger and/or elderly people, but color me wrong on that one. After my first session, "the easiest one I'll ever have" according to her, I was sore from stem to stern for four days. Four days! I saw her again this week and indeed, this session was harder than the last by a long shot. She is, as her name implies, an amateur boxer and I can't wait until we start doing some boxing drills. It feels great to work hard again, and not know what's coming next in each session. It also feels great to have gotten out of what feels like a weird and dysfunctional - if not slightly abusive - relationship with Yoga Trainer, and to move on. This summer was all about moving on, from a lot of things, from a darker and bereaving period of my life.
Last week I also took another Intro to Letterpress course at SFCB, and it was great! This course was focused on designing notecards. Can I just say that I love my design? Knowing how to set type going in was a huge advantage, as was having an experienced teacher, Maia de Raat of Dandy Lion Press, who took the time to explain everything and was calm and patient. She told a funny story about a previous student who kept running to the bathroom every few minutes, and after awhile Maia asked her if she was feeling okay. The student replied, "I'm fine, I'm just looking at my design in the mirror!" You do have to typeset backwards (and, initially, upside down) and I'd never even thought about looking in a mirror to check my work and see how a dingbat/decorative element was going to work with the font or overall design. Shiver me timbers... it really does help! As I've been asked by more than one party at this point if I can custom-make notecards, and given how much I'm loving and taking to Letterpress, my goal is to take full Letterpress courses I, II and III in order to qualify for open studio time where I can design and press at leisure.
Honey Bunny and I are heading out on vacation in a few days, which I'm looking so forward to. As mentioned in a much earlier post, however, preparing to leave on a week-long vacation from work is a pain in the ass. Especially when we have a 2-day event starting tomorrow that I feel like I've been prepping for for weeks. Thank goodness I'll be walking out of this next event to go on vacation.
It'll be radio silence until I return... TTYL!
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