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Just for fun:

The first written appearance of the proverb “revenge is a dish best served cold” is often credited to the 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (“La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid”). The phrase, “Revenge is a dish best served cold,” was actually borrowed by the British from the Pashtuns and popularized in the West, directing its original source to Afghanistan. The English version of this phrase in that exact wording can be attributed to The Godfather by Mario Puzo, a major bestseller in 1969. However, the phrase appeared in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets as “revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.” The more well-known wording of this quote is also featured in the title sequence of the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Vol 1, accredited as an “Old Klingon Proverb,” referencing the phrase’s usage in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where it is similarly cited as such. It means that to be successful, revenge should be a considered and planned response enacted when the time is right, rather than a hasty and ‘hot-blooded’ action which will increase the chances of failure. [For more on revenge: Wikipedia]

Silly me, I would have attributed that quote to Dorothy Parker.

Anyhow, yeah. Cold dropbacks. Since today is a day off, it’s a perfect time to pursue criminal activities.

“Why do you have yoga clothes on?” The Cop asked this morning. He is a trained investigator.

I web-surfed and Facebooked and looked at some apartment listings (My Gift is looking to transfer to the college in the next town over and we’re going to go look at some apartments this afternoon), then I thought a little about how it’d be fun to do a teeny warm up and some dropbacks.

An admission: I hate warm ups. I always have. At Gold’s Gym, in the rock climbing gym, on my yoga mat. I guess I’m impatient. I’m also conscious of my vata nature, which means I have lots of energy to spare at the beginning of a physical project, but when it burns out, it’s gone. So I’ve always loved the warm up with inversions that Iyengis and Anusarans go for. Accordingly, my warm up this morning was sirsasana, viparita dandasana, pincha mayurasana and some Venki arches.

Then dropbacks. Fun, fun! They don’t hurt. That said, I still drop onto my gymnastics wedge. Sorry, all. I’m still learning to dropback. So ignore the wedge. Clearly I need it, since I almost cratered at the bottom!

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