11 hours of acroyoga in not quite three months and other news
It hasn't quite been three months since K. visited, and we realized that the love we feel for one another is really, seriously, mutual. In that time we've managed to see one another in person every 5 to 14 days, with visits ranging in length from 12 hours to 4 days. Every time we meet we do acroyoga together, and yesterday evening's visit brought us to 11 hours of acroyoga practice together, and I really pleased with how quickly we are progressing. He'd never tried acroyoga before, so the first time, as one would expect with a beginner, his legs really shook when he tried to base. Yesterday he was so stable I could do the lean forward into bird on his upraised feet without taking hands first. It helps that he has been doing plenty of strength training so it is only balance/technique that he needed to develop. The new trick he found on line, where both people start out lying on the ground, head to head, ears side by side, and then the flyer goes into shoulder stand and the base grabs their hips in hands and their feet with feet, and gently tugs the flyer up and over into bird-in-hands is getting so much easier. I can see that, soon, the flyer won't need to help by using their hands at all for that transition. This is So Much Fun!
His personal situation is still complicated (else we'd see one another in person far more often) and we are doing our best to be patient and hope that he will be able to resolve everything in a good way. In the meantime D. wishes that things work out such that I go move in with K, because then D&C could have this house. The part about living with K has a huge, huge appeal for me, but I really love this house and, more importantly, the huge yard and all the berries that grow in it, so I would love a resolution that involves living here. On the other hand, he has an even bigger property, so bringing berries with me would be an option, if it comes to that.
It is taking time to work things out, and it is totally unclear how things are going to go, other than he and I are both very, very clear that we wish to be together. But in the meantime I am very ok to take time for a resolution to his personals situation. While long-distance isn't ideal, I love what we already have: K and I spend a half an hour every morning talking on the phone as he goes to work, and we meet every night at 21:00 to do yoga over and talk before sleep (often later than we should), and we often talk on his way home from work too (depending on if he sleeps at his dad's house, five minutes from work, or if he drives the half an hour home), plus all of the many sweet messages we send one another pretty much all day long. I haven't been this head over heels in love with someone in a very long time, and to have it so obviously mutual is amazing. This does mean that I am posting far, far less often, since the time I used to post was shortly before heading to bed, but now that time is happily occupied.
In the meantime I got the bad news that I don't get to go to Norway for that amazing summer job carving soapstone at the Lofotr Viking Museum, because Norway is keeping its borders closed to non-essential people through at least August. This is disappointing on several accounts, since it would have been a fun job, would have looked great on my CV, and the pay would have been nice. On the other hand, this means that I will get to see K more often than I would otherwise have done, and that fills me with such joy.
I have been making slow, but steady progress on my data processing and meeting with my PhD supervisor every Monday to check in. She and I are both very excited to see my results, and think that this is some serious ground-breaking work that I am doing, and really want to get this first paper ready to publish as soon as possible. We don't yet know if we are going to be able to get funding to do the analyses of the artefacts that is necessary to complete my PhD research as planned. If not we have discussed a couple of options. One would be to downgrade the degree to a Master's in Archaeology (by research), at which point, since I already have a PhD in geology I would qualify for post-doc positions in geoarchaeology, or if I found a fully-funded interesting sounding PhD position in Archaeology, I would be qualified to go that route. Another possible option would be to redesign my current PhD to make it a methodology focused project, rather than my current plan to both develop the technique and then apply it to a suite of artefacts. It will be interesting to see where this goes, too.
Seriously, these days my life is at that point in the story where the reader really wants to know what is going to happen, but I can't just skip a few pages and find out, I really need to keep going through the days one at a time. Luckily, the days are so full of joy that this is easy to do.
This weekend is the Drachenwald Laurels' Sponsored Prize Display event over zoom that I have been organizing. Now that the registration deadline is past I need to finish working out the schedule and let the participants know.
His personal situation is still complicated (else we'd see one another in person far more often) and we are doing our best to be patient and hope that he will be able to resolve everything in a good way. In the meantime D. wishes that things work out such that I go move in with K, because then D&C could have this house. The part about living with K has a huge, huge appeal for me, but I really love this house and, more importantly, the huge yard and all the berries that grow in it, so I would love a resolution that involves living here. On the other hand, he has an even bigger property, so bringing berries with me would be an option, if it comes to that.
It is taking time to work things out, and it is totally unclear how things are going to go, other than he and I are both very, very clear that we wish to be together. But in the meantime I am very ok to take time for a resolution to his personals situation. While long-distance isn't ideal, I love what we already have: K and I spend a half an hour every morning talking on the phone as he goes to work, and we meet every night at 21:00 to do yoga over and talk before sleep (often later than we should), and we often talk on his way home from work too (depending on if he sleeps at his dad's house, five minutes from work, or if he drives the half an hour home), plus all of the many sweet messages we send one another pretty much all day long. I haven't been this head over heels in love with someone in a very long time, and to have it so obviously mutual is amazing. This does mean that I am posting far, far less often, since the time I used to post was shortly before heading to bed, but now that time is happily occupied.
In the meantime I got the bad news that I don't get to go to Norway for that amazing summer job carving soapstone at the Lofotr Viking Museum, because Norway is keeping its borders closed to non-essential people through at least August. This is disappointing on several accounts, since it would have been a fun job, would have looked great on my CV, and the pay would have been nice. On the other hand, this means that I will get to see K more often than I would otherwise have done, and that fills me with such joy.
I have been making slow, but steady progress on my data processing and meeting with my PhD supervisor every Monday to check in. She and I are both very excited to see my results, and think that this is some serious ground-breaking work that I am doing, and really want to get this first paper ready to publish as soon as possible. We don't yet know if we are going to be able to get funding to do the analyses of the artefacts that is necessary to complete my PhD research as planned. If not we have discussed a couple of options. One would be to downgrade the degree to a Master's in Archaeology (by research), at which point, since I already have a PhD in geology I would qualify for post-doc positions in geoarchaeology, or if I found a fully-funded interesting sounding PhD position in Archaeology, I would be qualified to go that route. Another possible option would be to redesign my current PhD to make it a methodology focused project, rather than my current plan to both develop the technique and then apply it to a suite of artefacts. It will be interesting to see where this goes, too.
Seriously, these days my life is at that point in the story where the reader really wants to know what is going to happen, but I can't just skip a few pages and find out, I really need to keep going through the days one at a time. Luckily, the days are so full of joy that this is easy to do.
This weekend is the Drachenwald Laurels' Sponsored Prize Display event over zoom that I have been organizing. Now that the registration deadline is past I need to finish working out the schedule and let the participants know.