productivity

I have been unusually productive lately. Here is a list of my recent exploits:

• Visited a temple at sunset and watched an Indian-Balinese dance that culminated with a guy dressed as a white monkey kicking flaming piles of straw at the viewers
• Surfed five sessions in a single day
• Caught the two biggest waves of my life - solid double overhead!
• Broke a skimboard that I recently purchased(I consider my various destructions to be productive)
• Befriended an Irishman
• Started sitting deeper than anyone else at Balangan and thus catching all of the best set waves, and actually connecting several sections!
  
• Broke into the one-month-remaining point, closing in on the gone-for-nine-months point

The surf has been ridiculously good lately. I had a short session this morning before breakfast, and then while eating breakfast watched a few pro surfers ripping up the shorebreak, pulling into barrels within spitting distance of the sand. An Aussie guy was shooting on a Nikon D200 with an 80-200 lens and got some incredible photos, and made me want to break out my camera again since its been lying dormant basically since I arrived in Bali. I also picked up a bad little virus or something that has made sleeping less-than-pleasant, but it is also all the more motivation to get out and surf to flush saltwater through my sinuses and clear my head. Anyway, see you all in a month!