Cheesy --- Day 8/56

Walk: PGCC Exercise Class, Cheese Tasting
Distance: 1/2 Mile, Class

One of the saddest days of Ciwt's life: when she learned that cheese was fattening, loaded with cholestrol and generally not good for her. At the time she was working right next door to a gourmet cheese store and eating their products at will.

Luckily Ciwt has now reached an age where she has (almost) forgotten those facts. And today, thirty years later, she treated herself to a cheese tasting class.  Seven absolutely delicious cheeses!  So, if all that fat and cholesterol, oops, cheese finally takes effect tonight, you'll know she went eating what she loved......

The Great and Expensive Outdoors --- Day 8/65

Walk: Portola Valley
Distance: 2 Miles

It isn't like what they say about boats: something you throw money at.  Yet.  Her deck, that is.

Ciwt lives way up in the sky in her little San Francisco aerie.  But because of her deck she can walk right outside almost like she is living in a cabin on the ground.  She wouldn't consider giving up that freedom for a nanosecond, but every once in a while she winces at the pretty penny that 'room' at her home has called for. 

Never a Bridesmaid --- Day 8/64

Walk: PGCC Exercise Class, SF Playhouse  (Significant Other)
Distance:  2 miles, 1 class

Laura (Rubio Qian), Jordan (Kyle Cameron), Vanessa (N-A Danielle), of the stellar cast members of  Significant Other

Two bridesmaids flank the distraught-because-he-isn't-a-bridesmaid Jordan above.  This is toward the end of the play, Significant Other, written by Joshua Harmon and playing (several years after New York) at SF Playhouse.  Pooooor Jordan, who is sympathetic at the beginning of the play but was given sooooo many words that Ciwt was nearly numb to caring about him at the end.  She still did, but probably would have even more if he had run his long, verbal riffs only at 'significant' moments.

They Do Not Speak --- Days 8/62 & 63

Walk: 1. Errands  2. San Francisco Presidio Cemetary Memorial Day Commemorative Service
Distance: 1. 2.5 miles, small yoga   2. 6 miles, yoga stretch

Memorial Day, San Francisco Presidio Cemetary, May 27, 2019

 

Stampede --- Day 8/61

Walk: Trader Joe's type errands, AMC Kabuki (Booksmart)
Distance: 4.6 miles, small yoga

Booksmart is the stampede that is high school.  The insecuities, the unformedness, the cover ups.  The sexual total confusion.  The excitement, the energies that are way beyond what is actually necessary, the terrors, the constant unknown, the moral ambiguity.  All this while you are still living with your parents; that has to be factored in and handled.  All these keep coming at you.

Then comes Senior year when you will say goodbye to your true lifelong BFFs even though you might only see them once or twice in your whole lives after school.  But you don't know that now.  And you don't know the ways the world will play with your innocence and how other parts of you you don't know about yet will come forward to handle that.  There are signs of who might be successful out there, but no hints that it might not be who you think.

The plot of Booksmart is non-stop, often non-sensical, many of the gags bombed.  But it captures perfectly the exposed-heart vulnerability and personal nobility of high school where everyone holds their breath, makes it up in the moment, suffers for days after about how they came across - and then has to go right back to school for more   Ciwt loved it.

Watchcats or When in Doubt* --- Day 8/60

Walk: SFMOMA
Distance: 3.5 miles, Yoga

     *(When in doubt, make a CIWT cat entry)

4 Days in May --- Days 8/56, 57, 58, 59, 60

Walks: All over the place
Distances: Usually 3-5 miles, some small weights, missing golf balls at range, no yoga because                           home yoga area under repair seige

Nothing*, except maybe ailing pets, gets Ciwt going down the road sideways like having her home torn up and occupied all day by workmen.  It's back in semi order now and her nervous system is almost there as well.  

*Oh, and also golf.  Someone signed her up for a tournament!?*#  This also will soon be back in order.  Ie, she will withdraw her name.

The Birds Have It --- Day 8/55

Walk: Presidio
Distance: 3 Miles, Yoga

Ciwt's club's Members' Photography was for the birds:

So which photo do you think is the best?  No! Not that one!  Yes, that one!  No! Yes!  (Bird on left is thinking  "Oh, Plueeze)