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a) I am getting tan. I find it very funny to be tan. Self-tanners are funny. Tee hee hee!

b) Will someone please tell me what )'( means? I see that some people have it listed as an interest, and it looks like the humanist symbol to me. Sadly, as a purely symbolic word it is not Googleable, and searches on 'humanist symbol' only show me the usual one. I have no backup theory.

c) If you know what my subject line means, you get a cookie.

Aerial silks

I attended an awesome aerial silks practice session tonight as dilletante's guest. Yay, thanks dilletante! I could get to like these "hi, nice to meet you, let's trade workouts" relationships, I really could.

I'm sure you're curious, so: silks are amazingly cool, and seem like a ton of fun based on what I could see and do. ( Read more... )

Like any gymnastics-y thing, this was quite hard on the hands. My hands are dry now, and sore. But it's not as hard on them as parallel bars or a trapeze. I'm not sure what muscles it was hard on, aside from back muscles, but I assume my body will let me know all about it tomorrow.

I have a ton of images going through my head now. It's just so much fun to see amateur work when what you're used to is, basically, pro-level or nothing. It was fabulous to see real people doing everything ranging from simple to insane, and working on things they could almost do but not quite. Really, that sort of thing is far more inspiring to me than watching something like Cirque du Soleil where the skill levels shown are so high that you can't reasonably aspire to them. And as far as inspiring goes, did I mention the girl with disabled feet but strong arms? It turns out you can do a lot on aerial silks with primarily upper-body skills. Neat.

This group has a 3-hr open practice session every Monday night. It's the worst possible day for me (my rest day, and despite appearances, I do like to see my husband sometimes), but it's SO CLOSE. And so cool. And so accessible! Goddamnit. I'm definitely up for going again, I'm just not sure when. And by the way, apfelsingail, I'm pretty positive you'd have loved this, so consider going along with me next time. :)

And now perhaps I'm wound down enough to consider going to sleep. Zzzzzz.