I'm still alive, just busy, especially this week.

• Work is still amusing. They say they're happy to have me, and they'll be throwing me at a narsty piece of code in the near future. I looked at it, and it is suitably difficult.
• I've had stuff going on every evening for the past week, and during the weekend days--some Zen stuff, but mostly social stuff. Yes, I love all you people. Go away now, I'm crawling into my cave for several days.
• In Zen practice we look for the stuff in our lives that provided us with real difficulty: things that confuse or frighten us, or that we resist. For a lot of people this is the bowing, or the chanting, or sewing the rakusu (which I'm really enjoying). No, I have no issues with Zen practice.

  No, instead of getting all worked up and wrestling with some aspect of practice, my karma is to go out on dates with women. Keeps me on my toes, but it's a little hard to compare notes with people.

• Tomorrow I mail in my application for the July practice period at Zen Center.
• Teaching my first aikido class next Sunday, the early morning weapons class. Pretty excited, actually, and nervous. It'll be fine, I'll teach the stuff I know really well.