the whole world + the work = the whole world

Ran across the subject line while walking south through Greenwich Village. It was the first thing we saw there that was artsy until we hit Soho.

New York was as it always is... grimy and sublime, constantly being rebuilt, food on every corner.

Homecoming is like shit, laundry! shit, the hedge! The cute 20-something neighbors are of course out and about grilling stuff for Memorial Day, so they caught me trimming the hedge. I am positive this makes them think I am old and frumpy. Dammit, just you wait, you mid-20s brats... when it's your time to buy you'll want advice from people like me, and before you know it you'll be trimming YOUR stupid hedge to pacify YOUR crazy upstairs neighbor and then you'll be sorry you thought mean things about me. :P

There is too much to tell you about New York. But of course we saw Lava's show Tides, which is what we went down there for. Yeah, this is about what it was like, only longer and there were trapezes, and we got to participate. I knew I would get to see nevers perform, did NOT know I'd get to put my hand on her shoulder and smile at her in the middle of the performance. That was nice.

Sunday I got to be upside down for 3 different reasons:

1. 2 hours of acro / acroyoga -- more on that later, but let's just say I stood on someone's feet! And I stood on someone's shoulders! And I learned some neat counterbalances I can probably get my fellow yoga folks to do at some point! And!
2. On the subway ride down to Coney Island there were these pre-teens playing music on a boom box and playing with a beach ball. I was already in a playful mood, so I wound up hanging by my knees from the railing of the train and hitting the beach ball around with them while laughing hysterically. This turns out to be very memorable and also a great ab workout. When I came down heisenbug pretended not to know me. Yup... I'm going on 30 going on 12. I really think I used to be older.
3. At Coney Island they had a Zipper. Ooh. My first time getting to ride one of those in forever. It was so interesting and great to ride it and never really lose track of where my body was, upside down or right-side up. My proprioception has gotten a REAL tuneup over the last coule of years! But that didn't detract from the ride at all -- I still loved it. We rode the giant Ferris wheel and headed uptown for a really really good dinner at Kellari Taverna, which could be a food porn entry all of its own. I was soooo overstimulated.

Downsides of New York: silly little dogs, high probability of random bad smells at any moment, oddly hard to stumble across a bookstore, three different taxes added to hotel bill.

Upsides of New York: inspiring architecture, grand people-watching, Lava and Streb, taxis, ice cream trucks, constant surges of energy, people even more likely to leave you alone than in Boston, they have a Zipper, it is the center of the universe.