Tonight, I started the all-women's sailing course I signed up for at the Portland Boat Show.We gals filled the room. With almost 40 of us, all anxious to be better sailors, all for great reasons, we were an enthusiastic group. The class has eight different instructors, each with a different superhero power. Among the Super Friends, we were collectively schooled by Nomenclature Woman, Knot Woman, Sail-on-Saturday Woman, Registrar Woman, just to name a few.
Pictured with the boat on her head is Nomenclature Woman. She's petitely adorable and a total bad-ass. Can Batman say that? Nope. Superman? Hell no. Save us, Nomenclature Woman!
We did physical stuff, too. Of course, I couldn't take photos when I was participating in team projects like acting as named parts of a boat. Fortunately, the superhero known as In-Class Photographer Woman will send me photos soon. For the record, I played shrouds, and thusly draped myself, suspension wire-like, across the gal who played the mast, with arms-as-spreaders, and a pointed toe for a keel. Nine of us, in all, were 17 different boat parts ... so, wow, understand that Mast/Spreaders/Keel Woman carried the group.
Since I don't yet have boat-part theater photos to share, I'll offer another lesson learned in sailing school: Grilled cheese sandwiches are a problem.
Being a women's class, one of the superheroes is Feed-the-Masses Woman. She made grilled cheese sandwiches that were, gosh, blissful third-grade memories-perfect and delicious. I had two, thank you. When I came home to dutifully write down what I'd eaten in my Weight Watchers log, I learned that two perfecly grilled cheese sandwiches exceeds my total food allotment for the day, and then some. (26 points, if you care to know) Since grilled cheese sandwiches were not the ONLY thing I ate today, I am pretty much done eating until Friday.
Week One of Sailing Class: I'm a wiser sailor already. Plus, I've got better ballast.
Love -- and miss -- grilled cheese sandwiches. Do I need to form a support group for gluten-free, lactose-intolerant bow jewelry?
Posted by: Lisa | February 06, 2008 at 06:59 PM