It's been a while

Let me begin with an apology. I went away without hardly a word and have been gone for so long. I allowed myself to get bogged down in the hellish academia that a place like this will envelope you in. I told myself I had no time to write for a blog when I barely had time to write the dozens of papers that are due in a given month or to read the hundreds of pages due in a given week. This was a lie. I waste enough time doing nothing. Some of this is constructive mind cruising with the windows rolled down, (as brain with traffic like mine tends to do), but a lot of it is time consumed by worrying about how much work I have to do or how tired I am. There's no point to this.
My original reason's for writing this blog had to do with practice in writing for an audience. That objective has changed as a) I'm back in school and simply practice by doing, and b) it's really more relaxing writing for myself on a daily basis than it is to sit around being exhausted. I find myself being particularly exhausted today due to the amount of physical activity I undertook. Recently, as an off-shot of the dance troupe I'm a member of, I've started playing capoeira. In case your not familiar with it, capoeira is a Brazilian martial art form that's fairly acrobatic and fluid. (Read: it kicks your ass into shape with a hammer). While my body is feeling much of the strain from my two hours of playing today, the sport is fairly addictive. I can't quite explaining but once your realize that your body is capable of things you never imagined you gain the drive to push it as far as it can go.
As a child I was treated like glass; I never had a real cultivated sense of adventure or risk. I find I'm discovering my inner Lara Croft now that I'm coming into my own as a person. I realize that if I fall on my face or my ass, I'm not going to break. I mean this figuratively as well as literally. In capoeira you fall on your ass and your face often when you begin. It hurts but the blisters hurt more. Kind of like running, though, you see the progress you make and the results in your body fairly quickly. I have more upper body strength than I've ever had before. I can do cartwheels in both directions!
I'd like to believe that I'll keep up with capoiera after this dance is over and once I graduate. I can't be sure of that but I am sure that I'll be making a more concentrated effort to keep up with this blog. Not just for you few who actually read it and have asked me to continue writing, but for myself as well. Because while I'm learning lot's of neat new stuff, it's good to hold on to the old.