hot and exhausted

Had to do laundry and groceries today. It's about five degrees cooler than yesterday, but feels twenty degrees warmer. Must have something to do with the fact that I'm doing laundry and groceries instead of kickboxing.

The second guy I sparred with remembered me from over a year ago. He was out a long time due to tearing both his meniscus and ACL, he told me. He was wearing a knee bracing sleeve and basically asked not to be kicked there. It's funny, because in speculating about that very scenario, I remember telling others I couldn't do exactly that. I can't tell people not to kick me in the leg, I thought. In reality though, it was fine. Maybe a little risky for him, but I mean, no one in the class held it against him. It didn't seem wrong, but perfectly reasonable.

I don't remember him though. I don't know if I'd recognize him now, and I still don't remember his name. I'd like to thank him for trying to offer me something for the nausea, but I had to make haste for the bathroom, and then forgot about it and went home. 

I need to work on my cardio, but I also need to practice interacting with people. I'm awful at that, too. I've literally been reminding myself to make eye contact, instead of just looking in someone's general direction like a blind person. I'm not autistic. I'm just so bad with people, it makes them think I might be. 

In the past three years, I've met more people than I've known in my entire life. Multiple times more. The neural circuitry for facial recognition has been getting far more exercise than it used to. I need to remind myself, to cut myself some slack. I'm working on it. Another student introduced himself for the 5th time yesterday, and I think his name might finally stick.