Intimidation Technique

I'm super-duper nervous about this statistics camp I'm going to. Never mind that my advisor encouraged me to apply. Never mind that the people here accepted me. And that I've got the funding to travel and be put up in a hotel and everything. The other people are going to be professors. And I don't know anything about the software we're using. And my data's not right. (I have no evidence for this, I'm just concluding that there's no way it's right.)

To make myself less intimidated, I Googled the guy being picked up from the airport at the same time as me. Navy SEAL. Who won some sort of awards in techniques that seem like they could be fundamental for this week and I don't have. In other words, not helpful.

I elaborated the story to make him more intimidating. Basically, he used the stats we're learning this week to locate Osama. Really, he's the reason Bin Laden is dead.

If I make him so fantastic that it can't be true, he'll be less intimidating. Right?

Graduation

20. Attend my sister’s graduation.

Check! And congratulations. I love you.

I feel sexy.

Checked off the list of things that I never thought I'd do: pole dancing class.

A leader in the the graduate women group's took a class a year ago, got hooked, and has been promoting it since then. She got a group of us to take it (at a discounted rate), so.....

Lessons/Points
1) No mirrors in the studio, because we're too likely to be self-critical. If it feels good, it looks good.
2) Take all the time in the world. (During warm-ups.)
3) Pole tricks, even easy-ish ones, are HARD.
4) I'm going to be sore tomorrow. Can see how this ends up being part of a weekly workout routine.

I'd be tempted to sign-up for one of the real classes. (Meet with the same group once a week for a couple of months in level 1. Then move to level 2....) But super-expensive. And while I do like the sexy feeling, confidence boosting, endorphin happiness, I can get a year of yoga at school for the cost of 2 months of level 1 classes.

And ending the night with blues dancing reminds me, there are other types of sexy dancing too.

Analyze this

I woke up before my alarm this morning. Only problem is that my last dream was so stressful, I was in tears. (Funny thing though, after I started going over the stress-edge in my dream an emergency therapist was called to talk sense to me. I didn't need to analyze my dream when I woke up because I'd already analyzed it in my sleep.) So I decided to turn on the radio news and snooze instead of getting up when I was aiming to.