Brains!

Yoga...Again

I should really be going to yoga at the moment. I went on Monday...and pathetically fell all over myself. Always happens in between yoga breaks. The first class is great, I can do everything. Second class is almost always more then a struggle. Its not really related to soreness...I'm not sure what it is. Maybe the illusion that I'm actually back in the groove due to my first class leads to lack of real focus. Either way I couldn't quite hold asanas as long as usual without getting droopy or tipping out of balance. Plus we did a couple things I've never really spent time practicing more then one or two times.
So why am I not there tonight? Mirgraines and hot rooms really don't mix well. Also its that time of the month, specifically the first day, and generally I feel weak altogether. Instead of crankiness and soreness and migraines, I flip within moments, to weak, bloated relief. But thats just the first day. Afterwards I feel like I've been renewed. Its great. A mini rebirth.

Jobs

So my mom got me in contact with a potential job opportunity. She said, "oh I know him through so and so, he works for a non-profit working with magentic field, or something". I'm thinking, okay...so we call him, he calls me back. His name is Peter, and he works for the American Freedom Alliance. Peter is a genuinely a nice guy, I can tell this. It was also refreshing to talk to someone who knows how to have normal friendly phone conversation, unlike Phil...my current boss. Anyway Peter tells me about some of the things I would be doing, basically asisting him and the founder in general office stuff four days a week for a few hours a day. Then he goes to explain what the organization does. I instantly know... He says, I know it's different then you guys, and laughs, meaning me and my mom, but reassures me that everyone there are real peopel real nice, and would be really respectful. I know it would be. He tells me to look it up first, email him when I decided.
So of course I know what I'm going to find, as I navigate to the web page:

The American Freedom Alliance is a non-political, non partisan, movement of concerned Americans which identifies threats to western civilization. The organization promotes networking, activism and education in the following six areas: the Islamic penetration of Europe; the collapse of academic freedom; the identification and sources of media bias; the growth of radical environmentalism and the role of the judiciary in the modern democratic state. The Alliance's conference's programs, publications, websites and networking groups develop tools and strategies to counter ideologies which underly these threats, including radical Islam, moral and cultural relativism, appeasement and excessive emphasis on multiculturalism.

The part that irked me the most, "radical environmentalism", nothing ever gets done by moderate environmentalists...sorry. The other ones, guh I can just feel that there's this "conservative" undertone to the "education" of these issues. I don't know the whole thing seems to be based on fear...maybe not...maybe I'm wrong. But as far as the environmental thing...thats definitely NO.

So...do I go on supporting all my values, and at the same time work for the other view points? I can't do it. I told my mom, and she said, absolutely not, I don't want you to do that! So I'm not going to. I emailed him back, and said just that and of course thanked him so much for the opportunity. I am not starving, I get by, I can keep looking. But now I wonder if I could ever make a comprimise like that about such sweeping issues. I mean in a very desperate situation what would I do?