Ungodly Early Friday Morning in 128

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

CJ wakes up at 5am and opens her door. Yoga mat on the floor, she began to stretch and waited for Blair, since he'd said he wanted to join in.

[[ooc: for Blair, and door's open so ok for broadcast]]

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair bounced and waved at CJ when he got in. "Good morning! I've got my new blanket and I'm ready to boogie. Or yoga. Yoga-boogie?"

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, sunshine! Come on in and find some floor. Yoga-boogie...would that be more like Pilates?" she grined and kept stretching as she nodded to a bare section for him to spread his blanket out.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair spread out his blanket and started stretching. "Maybe. Or it could just be the newest dance sensation. Everybody will be doing it soon."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"That they could." she said quietly as she sat down and reached forward to hold her feet. She had a routine to this and held this one, stretching her legs and back while she focused and waited for him to be ready.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair watched her for a moment as he finished his stretches and then smiled over at CJ. "Ready?"

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Taking a deep breath and standing, she grinned. "Let's do it."

Beginning in Mountain, she steadied her breathing and focused as she bent in a prone peak.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair grinned and took a deep breath, reaching up into crouching llama because the mun loves making up fake yoga poses and exhaled.

"So are you quiet when you do yoga or do you like to chat? It's up to individual, I guess. I love to chat about everything, but mostly it's just because I like being with people and not in a dirty way but more in a communication way and some people think I just like to hear myself talk and I don't think that's true, but I guess it's sorta true because I don't not like to her myself talk."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. We had to be quiet in class in DC...and here I talk to myself sometimes. I've never had a yoga buddy, but I'm not against communication." she said as she picked her leg up into a scorpion on frog.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Communication is like food for the soul" Blair intoned before lifting up his arms in giraffe?giraffe! pose. "Or maybe yoga is food for the soul. Or ice cream. I'm not really sure, I think I've read all three embrodiered on pillows."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Food for the soul...yeah. I prefer to think of it like, um..." she matches his pose and feels her spine crack as it stretches, "...communication is the path to connections to other people. Connections are really all we have in this world."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"That's true." Blair bent over and spread his legs out for 'flags waving the breeze' pose. "Connections with other people. Connections with other societies. Even connections with your environment."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She folded herself into a great pyramid, and slowly lowered into a Nile crocodile.

"Right, hey...you're on it. You know, the idea of location, both physical and consciously is really cutting edge. I just read it in...ungh, that's stiff...the JEC last week."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Breath through it." Blair grinned and went from bored moose into silky mousse slowly. "What's JEC?"

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Breathing deep and slow, in through her nose and out through her mouth, she could feel the tightness in her middle back let go.

"The Journal of Education and Communication. It's for teachers. Ideas and stuff for my classes."

She rolled over and formed the green ranger! bridge.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"That's awesome!" Blair stopped in the middle of arching his back for 'penguin butt' and grinned. "That's like one of my life goals...to be published in an academic journal."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Really? That's a terrific goal to have. How well do you handle rejection, Blair?" She stretched he leg in a broken crockery and turned to look at him, "It's rough on your ego."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Who says I'm going to be rejected?" Blair lay down in bump on a log and looked over at CJ. "I'm just kidding, I know that it's really hard to get published in one, and even if you do, you have to sumbit and resumbit a lot."

"I'm hoping by the time I'm ready to sumbit...my ego can handle it."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"I think you'll be fine. You're a smart kid and you have good ideas, good perspectives. But I'll tell you the secret..."

Slowly, she rolled and straightened into a headstand, then curved her legs into a perfect radar dish.

"It's more who you know. Make friends with the people who do the reviews. It's supposed to be blind...but it very rarely actually is."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair admired her radar dish zomg!not dirty and did a headstand and jazz toes. "Thanks. Isn't that sad though? The fact that it's yet another process that's been corrupted by the man."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"It's not corrupted. It's connections. See the bright side...people still get published on merit, but friends help friends. It's the way the world works, Blair. You don't like it? Change it."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I guess the friends helping friends things make sense. I just hate for my friendship with a reviewer to crowd out a better applicant with a better paper."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"I didn't mean that's the only thing that gets you in. I'm just saying it helps. You still have to have a well written idea and it even depends on if there's a theme for the issue. A lot factors in. Just..." she drops her feet forward and curls over in some position that has no name but it sure feels good, "...don't take it personal."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"It's good to know, thanks for the advice. Sometimes I do things pretty personal."

Blair finished turtle balancing on head and sat down. "Whew. Good workout!"

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She tucked and rolled into a squat, then sat. "It was. We should do this more often. I almost broke a sweat."

She grinned and got off her mat to roll it up.

"And now shower, and then to ruin it all with some coffee toxins."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair laughed and rolled up his blanket. "It was fun. Enjoy your coffee toxins!"

He bounced up and out the door, waving.