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I got a ticket to an undergroundish ravey thing last night, but I didn't relish the thought of going to Pioneer Square alone for an event that started at 2300, especially when I'd been awake since 0435 yesterday and I have a hot date tonight. So I stayed home and slept for eight hours. Je ne regrette... OK, I regret it a little bit.
And on to this beautiful sunny morning in Seattle. Ever since the end of my days of going to yoga classes paid for by Microsoft's gold-plated benefits, I've been doing tree pose at home most mornings for some sorely needed better balance.I long ago noticed that this is a lot harder for me in a dark room, which is the default situation at 0630 in November around here. Sure, I can solve this problem by turning on a light, but I think it's noteworthy that, at least in my case, my eyes are giving me much better information about which way is up than my inner ears are.
On a related note which just occurred to me, I did engineering co-op - what engineers call an internship - in Rosslyn, VA, just across the Potomac from DC. The Rosslyn Metro station is one of the deepest in the system because of the underground river crossing, and it's fairly old. There was what I believe to be a design flaw in the escalator tunnel: the joints in the concrete segments were perpendicular to the axis of the tunnel, not parallel to the vertical. What that meant for me was that my inner ears were telling me which way was up correctly, but my eyes were telling me it was several degrees forward (going down) or backward (going up) from true up. I had to shield my eyes in that tunnel if I was walking on the escalator so I didn't get dizzy. I've also noticed that in at least one newer station, the joints in the concrete segments are parallel to the vertical like diagonal slices, so I speculate that I'm not the only person who had this problem.
And on to this beautiful sunny morning in Seattle. Ever since the end of my days of going to yoga classes paid for by Microsoft's gold-plated benefits, I've been doing tree pose at home most mornings for some sorely needed better balance.I long ago noticed that this is a lot harder for me in a dark room, which is the default situation at 0630 in November around here. Sure, I can solve this problem by turning on a light, but I think it's noteworthy that, at least in my case, my eyes are giving me much better information about which way is up than my inner ears are.
On a related note which just occurred to me, I did engineering co-op - what engineers call an internship - in Rosslyn, VA, just across the Potomac from DC. The Rosslyn Metro station is one of the deepest in the system because of the underground river crossing, and it's fairly old. There was what I believe to be a design flaw in the escalator tunnel: the joints in the concrete segments were perpendicular to the axis of the tunnel, not parallel to the vertical. What that meant for me was that my inner ears were telling me which way was up correctly, but my eyes were telling me it was several degrees forward (going down) or backward (going up) from true up. I had to shield my eyes in that tunnel if I was walking on the escalator so I didn't get dizzy. I've also noticed that in at least one newer station, the joints in the concrete segments are parallel to the vertical like diagonal slices, so I speculate that I'm not the only person who had this problem.
