flexagon | Jun. 20th, 2009

I am folding laundry and packing for a trip to Zillian's mothership, so I'm headed into a week of missing my kitty. But it will also be a week of amazing knitting progress, seeing friends I rarely get to see and eating breakfast at my favorite breakfast spot. Bad, good? Mostly good, I think. Zillian showed its harsher side again this week by firing a friend, so the distraction (and productivity) of a trip will be welcome.

I had a great hour-long handstand class today with Zed and two other people. One thing that made it great was working on my press, where we made progress. "I feel like I'm helping you now instead of fighting you", said Zed when I finally got the idea of piking as hard as I could. The other great thing was semi-consistently being able to catch my handstand briefly when I kicked up, either in the center of the room or next to the wall. I was able to do this many more times than I ever can in Tuesday classes... dedicated handstand lessons are definitely good for me.

A magazine taught me today about a photographer who I've never heard of and whose work I really love. Check it out on image search if you like the one below... I'm buying his book for my photographer dad and intend to take a good leisurely flip through it before giving it away.

I want to take this 3.5 hour zip line tour, even though it would also require some zipping in a Zipcar. Hmm, are any of my LJ friends both car-equipped and interested? :)

My Amazon wish list is annoying me tonight. I've done my best to keep it pared down, but there are still six things on it that have gone out of print since being placed on there, and it seems strange that I could supposedly want something for that long without ever buying it. I might make it a goal for this week to just purchase or delete most of the list. Almost all of it is available used for low prices, I'm tired of staring at the same old list, and getting packages is fun anyway.