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Does anyone actually read this thing anymore? Hah. That's why I can write this here. There are very very few right-wing conservative people in my social circle. All of the 2 or 3 are former coworkers, which is not by choice. Plus one elementary school Facebook friend whom I haven't seen nor talked to in 30 years. Not that I choose people based on political leanings but that choices of everything

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Many of the things I wrote about my old TJ teacher were wrong apparently.  I left his class over a year ago after he physically abused me with some seriously psycho QN and not for demo-ing PH but to punish me for "disrespecting" him.  There's one old blog post where I actually wrote that I thought I knew that he would never punch a girl even during PH. I have had my big toenail pretty

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Coyote Sessions by Glen Phillips The image of him pushing hands with another guy after class brought to mind a bigger struggle, like he was fighting something in the spiritual dimension.  I saw my teacher looking at him.  I was thinking about this image and planning on writing about it already. The Facebook posting came sooner than I was expecting, tonight, for my friend from

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A few months ago during class, I noticed that Teacher was facing an older man instead of me this time while leading the meditation exercise.  I had heard that he was getting treated for prostate cancer or something.  So this confirmed for me that Teacher had not been facing me, at least not entirely..., for some "scandalous" reason such as looking at the cute and pretty girls but

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Teacher: "I think she's probably very smart in certain areas..." Tiger: (smugly) "But not too much wisdom..." Me: "Who...?" (In my head... I'm not too sure about the wisdom of someone who smugly says someone else lacks wisdom when I haven't seen wisdom in the speaker. I'll say this at the risk of doing the same thing in this very blog post.) Tiger: "T... you know... she has all these crazy

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I've been taking a yijin class since November in the city of pearl milk tea (or I should say quality pearl milk tea), basically stretching tendons and muscles.  A TJ brother recommended it to me as he knew it helped someone with rheumatoid arthritis.  He told me this guy teaches out of his home during the day so it's mostly housewives and retired folks. I do not know why but I did

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My week consists of 5-7 hours of TJ class between two teachers, 2 hours of yijin, 1 hour of orthopedic massage therapy, ~5 hours of driving, and going to the grocery store which is still like a field trip to me.  Basically, TJ is my life and I get a lot of my socializing and most of my people watching done there.  Thus the redundant TJ drama posts.  I shouldn't be blogging

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I led the SR exercises today in the park.  This meant I had to make sure I got up early enough to be on time.  Teacher arrived a minute after I started.  He usually arrives later as he has students lead the SR exercises.  So I guess he came on time for my leading. This time was good.  I got a few corrections.  I wish I had gotten them earlier rather than after 7

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While talking with a bunch of us after class a few weeks ago, my TJ teacher said he doesn't make promises.  I wondered what kind of man doesn't make promises.  He didn't seem like that kind of man, or what did he mean?  He was telling a story about K in another class who would get mad if he didn't show up to class or was late.  The students over there still met during the

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A sign that I might have indeed been dealing with a very well disguised psycho bitch manager at Whole Foods a few weeks ago.  The last two times I popped into the store, the old-fashioned loaves in stock were missing exactly the pumpkin walnut and gingerbread flavors.  Every time before, they always had all the flavors, and I have gone to the store about twice per week for several

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I'm being Web-stalked daily by someone in my TJ class, at least based on my "educated" guess.  The teacher sent out an e-mail ten days ago with a list of names of students who didn't need to pay for an extra SR review class before our regular already paid for XJ review class.  Half an hour later, according to my stalk-the-stalker Web logs, someone must have Googled me and visited my CS

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One of the first times she saw the teacher having a conversation with me during class in the park, not even one-on-one but he was talking mainly directed towards me, she had to walk over, practically across the park, grab my arm as if looking for a watch, and ask if I had the time.  I thought wearing watches had gone out of fashion long ago due to mobile phones.  So I got distracted and

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Yesterday at our monthly XJ class, held at a different location this time, Tiger asked me, "Have you been here before?"  "Yeah, I came to the workshop."  (Remember?  The workshop that you imbued with all that tense jealousy and anger?) It's a simple yet in some way beautiful park with a few redwood trees in one corner.  Doing PH or a question and answer session with the

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There's a T-shirt that says "Got qi?"  My Y style TJ teacher and her husband are wearing this T-shirt in a header photo on their Web site. Last Wednesday, my other TJ teacher got lost in the fog and arrived an hour late to class.  Then he sat on the bench with a smile and watched as Tiger and Ir ran the class and another student tried to help out.  I took a rest and ended up

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During M, Teacher stands in the center and the students in a circle around him.  On Tuesday at the MV class, there was no doubt that Teacher was standing facing me intentionally during the QG M named above and he was watching me periodically when we opened our eyes.  I know that he is pretty much doing this exercise for me because I told him I thought I felt better after doing it the

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Every other class, it seems to oscillate between friendly and jealous.  I wonder if Teacher's story about his jealous TJ brothers had anything to do with this.  I don't know what the jealousy is about since her TJ is way better at this point, she works very hard, is a very skilled learner and a very skilled teacher.  Her teaching skills are even better than Teacher's although

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Someone wrote an appreciation of my TJ teacher better than I could since she's known him much longer and her writing is thoughtful and articulate.  To avoid click tracking back to my blog, here it is via https://bitly.com/SW63zq+ .  I found and read the article before attending the LD weekend workshop and it helped put me in the right frame of mind to learn, be open, and not

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I had more TJ "drama" posts queued up in my mind to write before this one but I'll jump ahead and write about this now since it is Thanksgiving and also I found out today that a friend and blog reader started taking TJ from the same teacher at another location and was wondering if it was the same "creepy" teacher.  I know I take a small risk by writing these posts that someone from my

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Soon after I arrived at the TJ workshop, I got the impression that Tiger didn't look too happy when she saw me but I tried to give her a friendly hi.  After the first session of XJYL, I was looking at some handouts for the next SR session, standing a few feet in front of Teacher, and Tiger sort of went up close to him with what seemed to me a slightly flirtatious gesture and slightly

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During LD weekend, I participated in a TJ workshop.  It was a stretch for me and I told the teacher I wasn't sure I could do all three half-day sessions.  He had asked me to go to an extra class for free right before the first session so I had to explain that I actually have a pretty bad case of chronic fatigue syndrome and couldn't do that.  I had gotten through the classes so far

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My TJ teacher asked his long time student-teacher, Tiger, to come lead warm-ups and the form before he arrives.  Last week, as I arrived late and walked in with the teacher, she didn't look particularly happy, didn't say hi to me during a short break, and left early.  I had made friendly overtures to her earlier since we both share an interest in some kinds of social dance and TJ,

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My TJ teacher has gone through various manglings of my name.  In the beginning, sometimes he would reverse the characters.  I am accustomed to getting several variations of my name over the years and just respond to them all but that is the first time someone kept saying my name backwards.  Then he started pronouncing it like "San Mateo" and backwards.  Then after an incident,

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My uncle, mom's brother, took the Bay Area relatives out to dinner tonight.  I arrived at dinner and discovered that I have two new cousins I didn't know about.  Earlier at home when they had congregated before heading to the restaurant, I had still been resting from hanging out at a park earlier today and wondered why I was hearing too many (more than zero) small children's voices

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A Day Goes By by Artist on Grooveshark I've been dancing a couple times in the past few weeks.  The weekly orthopedic massages are producing a significant step up in functionality every week. I started taking a tai chi class at the local community college.  The class is next door to a social dance class taught by JW.  The music that comes through the adjoining doors is enjoyable

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I've improved to the point that I've started taking a kung fu class taught by Shaolin monks at the university although I have to lie down and konk out for the rest of the day and sometimes the next day. Basically, the only things I'm doing right now are tai chi and recently adding in yoga and kung fu now that I am able to.  Although I lose the short-term productivity, they are producing a

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