professionalizing your hobbies: pro and con

Because I was trying to downplay to myself that it would be my first in-person yoga class since February 2020, I purposely picked a teacher I didn't know. At the beginning of class she asked, because good teachers ask new students this, if there was anything she should know about me.

"Well, I have scoliosis but I've been working with it for a long time. And I have some lingering abdominal and pelvic floor stuff from pregnancy and childbirth."

She seemed to be waiting for me to continue, and so even though that was all I had planned to say, I found myself continuing,

"Also I used to teach here, I taught the teens and tweens class, like, a million years ago."