Spring Equinox

In yoga studios across the world, tomorrow is a special day. The spring equinox represents a change in seasons, and in the yoga world is celebrated by doing 108 Sun Salutations.

Typically this ritual is performed 4 times a year, with the start of each season, to acknowledge the changing world around us.

The 108 Sun Salutation practice is named Mala, representing the 108 mala prayer beads used in meditation.

There are many reasons for the Hindu and Buddhist belief in the sacredness of the number 108.

• There were initially 54 sounds in the Sanskrit alphabet: 2 X 54 = 108
• There are 108 Upanishads, which are part of the oldest scriptural textsof Hinduism. They primarily focus on philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God.
• There are 108 names for Hindu deities.
• The distance between the earth and sun is 108 times the diameter of the sun, therefore, the number 108 is taken to represent the "distance" from the devotee to the divine.
• Some say there are 108 feelings: 36 related to the past, 36 related to the present, and 36 related to the future.
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Doing 108 Sun Salutations is a way of breaking out of the darkness that accumulated from the long winter. It's a way of "spring cleaning" your body and mind, and is used as an offering to Peace and Unity.

Just a Wednesday

I've been a bit lazy with my blog this semester. Don't give up on me yet, only 2 weeks until spring break!

The music department, ever so kindly, has decided to have itself evaluated next week. This means that a bunch of men in suits will be dropping in and out of our classes and any given moment to make sure they're actually teaching us something (ha, what a joke). The repercussions of this, however, means that all my midterms have been moved to this week, with no notice what-so-freaking-ever! Just so you don't think I'm slacking for no good reason.

If you're really dying for something, read this, and then turn off your phone.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/silence-your-phone/

Valentine's Day

Here's the card I made for all the loves of my life today. Complete with the following lovely pick up lines:

I'm glad you recognize how terrible your life would be without me.

Your body is a wonderland, and I want to be Alice.

Let's make like fabric softener and snuggle.

I can't believe how much I'm not sick of you.

If you were a booger, I'd pick you first.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Mini-Resolution

Make Something Monday (crafts or projects)

Time to Read Tuesday (weekly trip to the library)

What's Cooking Wednesday (baking or cooking)

Be Thoughtful Thursday (write letters, make cookies, do a service)

Somewhere Fun Friday (get out of the dorms!)

Day #1's project was putting together this shelf. I did it all by myself, without even looking at the directions! (my father would be proud)

It's currently holding my knitting and the books for my Politics of Food Literature class.

Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups

Truthful Tuesdsay

A wonderful thing about life is that there are some thing we will never know. Why my Starbucks latte is never hot enough, why it always rains the day after I wash my car, why the jello in the dining halls is always low fat and blue when red is obviously the better color. And finally, you don’t know why this jerk isn’t texting you back. Maybe they don’t like you or are scared they like you too much. (Does the latter ever happen though? Do people ever get freaked out, like in a negative way, when they actually like someone and they know the person likes them back? Maybe they do. If so, we’re doomed.) You’re thinking of a myriad of different things while waiting for that response back. Most of which are some variant of “I’m not good enough. I probably smell weird. How am I supposed to get someone to love me when they can’t even send me a @#%& text message?”

You’ll never know the real reasons why they aren’t going to text you back. Trust me. It’s better not knowing. In addition to this, I think my single gals are short changing themselves. Let’s add a little variety and truth to the reasons why we’re single:

People bug me.

I’m holding out for a Sugar Daddy.

I’m allergic to testosterone.

Ryan Reynold’s doesn’t know who I am yet.

I refuse to sleep on anything less than 500 thread count sheets.

I know your grandmother, mother, aunt and annoying friend from elementary school all want to know why you “still don’t have a boyfriend”. I know we’re at the awkward phase where our highschool-prego friends all have toddlers and our college friends are getting engaged and it seems like the only exciting thing happening to your life is the new sweater you found on the clearance rack at the new H&M store. Even though society is telling us that men get to look like Seth Rogen and women have to look like Katherine Heigl, wouldn’t it be great if we held out a little longer?

Go to the mattresses! Fight. Fight to the death!

Happy New Years