Woke up stupid early and went out to do yoga in the dark, which was really nice. Holy crap were my shoulders sore again, and now all the way down my spine and along my ribs. The muscles are a little softer again, though, so it’s probably a good thing.
There’s a particular way of holding the hips that seems to help keep my shoulders open? It seems weird. I kept putting my hands on the front bones in the pelvis to see what the position was, and it didn’t feel any different objectively, but internally it felt like the bones all dropped somehow. I’m rolling with it, though; I’ve had a number of yoga teachers talk about bringing your belly closer to your spine, and this sort of feels like it could be one possible translation–like, that’s not what it feels like but I can see where someone else might feel like that. Even while sitting I can do it, and it doesn’t feel like rising in my chair but dropping downward.
Walking early was good practice for taking pictures involving different light settings on the camera. Do I know what I’m doing? No. But I did find some combinations that made the image reflect how I perceived the light a little better. The phone’s auto settings wash everything out. The more pics I take, the more I suspect our brains override our eyes more than a little. Our minds definitely don’t see what’s objectively there; when I take a pic it isn’t what I see and it isn’t even consistent in how it differs. Like I’ll add an imaginary frame to something I see, and then I’ll take a picture of the exact same thing–and the picture won’t contain all the details I think are there in the frame. My brain edits the picture to put more stuff in a smaller space, while making it all seem closer. How, no idea. But it’s a strange effect to notice consciously.
Ran a stack of errands, then went back to writing and got stuck on some details, which were fortunately fun to research. (The place that builds synthetic cadavers is in Tampa!) I went back into the scene and…my character was having a meltdown. Which was fair after what I put him through in his previous scene, but still annoying. So right now he’s doing his own private migraine routine, and I don’t know whether to leave it in or not, but it’s what he needs to do in order to get through the next bit, so…I’ll write it and see if it needs to stay.
It’s funny, he has different musical tastes than mine, and there are some songs of his on this playlist that I don’t like at all unless I’m writing his scenes. I told Ray this; the songs are one she recommended. She sniffed and said he has good musical taste, then stared at me pointedly. I had to laugh.
