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Love challenge: Love songs upon love songs

Tuesday. No more long weekend. So much work. So much interest in New York Fashion Week. So much distraction!

But I squeezed in a workout by going to a midday yoga class. I didn't really get my sweat on. And while I find Yoga challenging and all and like it a bunch and think it makes me more calm. But lately I sort of just want to lift heavy stuff and push my body to exhaustion.

One last article: Loving Roger Ebert

Read immediately. Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/roger-ebert-0310

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Love day 1: Snowy Run

NYC's definition of a "blizzard" is such that I can wear heels two days after it passes and can go for a run just one day hence. And so I ran from my house to the reservoir and back.

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Happy. Posting. 1am? (oh yeah. and some yoga.)

A while ago I left Brooklyn, moved to Manhattan, and was convinced I wouldn't make many new friends. I already have them (mostly in Brooklyn) and just figured that was enough. It's easy to get out to Prospect Heights and Bed Stuy and wherever else.

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Love challenge: Love songs upon love songs

Tuesday. No more long weekend. So much work. So much interest in New York Fashion Week. So much distraction!

But I squeezed in a workout by going to a midday yoga class. I didn't really get my sweat on. And while I find Yoga challenging and all and like it a bunch and think it makes me more calm. But lately I sort of just want to lift heavy stuff and push my body to exhaustion.

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Happy. Posting. 1am? (oh yeah. and some yoga.)

A while ago I left Brooklyn, moved to Manhattan, and was convinced I wouldn't make many new friends. I already have them (mostly in Brooklyn) and just figured that was enough. It's easy to get out to Prospect Heights and Bed Stuy and wherever else.

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The brand new super luxe Pure Yoga UWS!

Soooooo, in November Pure Yoga offered a pretty decent month to month membership deal with no joining fee. I believe that the joining fee is usually something outrageous and that the month-to-month would normally leave you confused, much like after an armed robbery.

But for $150/month that's just under $13 a class if you go 3 times a week, which ain't bad given that a single class at most places is $15-$20 and that a class with no membership at Pure is an outrageous $30. Sadly, I live on 74th and the park, nowhere near such cheap and cool yoga places like Yoga to the People, etc.

So I thought, what the fuck. If a few months go by and I don't do my dozen classes a month, I quit. And if I do, I get a bargain. And if I go much much more often, I should get a life.

I think that in the near future I'll go often....

Place:
Pure Yoga - Upper West Side

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Broken Embraces

Friday night at the last minute I decided to see Broken Embraces. Like the most recent Penelope Cruz/Pedro Almodovar movies, it captured a perfect blend of beauty, nostalgia, sadness, and a quiet patience. It made peace with the fact that life dishes up more bad and bland than good, but that the good is SO good, SO amazing, SO bright, that it somehow makes sense.