Mission 002

New week. New mission. To eliminate, ok, maybe not eliminate...reduce the mind-bogglingly annoying and tedious neck and back tension that dogs my desk-bound life.
So what to do about it? Unfortunately I fear that on this occasion my genetics could have the last word, and my computer will have the penultimate one. My dear mother has been telling me about her neck and shoulder tension for about the last 25 years, to my knowledge. And there's a good chance she was also telling me about it for the previous 8, only I wasn't listening. As for the computer, it has me for least 9 hours a day, and that's not likely to change. Er, ...actually, I think I need to stop writing now as the only thing I'm doing so far is to talk myself out of this mission. So back to the action.
I am going to start yoga. Not the sticky, sweating, dirty-sounding Bikram yoga of Bikram Choudury fame. And probably not the chanting, calming, soothing Hatha yoga so beloved by breathy types with limpid eyes(I guess). I like the bendy, onomatopoetic, alluringly-exotic sound of Ashtanga yoga, and I've found a Thursday night class that offers it near London Bridge. It's all far too convenient and easy. So what's my excuse? I need a yoga buddy. So I'll need to convince the Buckwell to come along too. (Ah yes, you've found the mission fine print - my get-out clause.)

Where mission was conceived: 2nd floor, Astral Towers
Type of location: Workplace
Idea-fuelling beverage: Organic Licorice tea (really truly)
Estimated increase in quality of life I expect from the completed mission: Exponential
Likelihood of success: Mission possible but could be scuppered by my genetics
Mission deadline: Thursday 27 July.