Do what? Oh my, I'm doing it.

Holy smokes, did my inverted sense of balance rock today. I had an intense work day with a lot of time-critical tasks, and felt kind of like going home after work -- but I also got to hand the pager off to someone else after nine long days of getting beeped at, so I wanted to celebrate the freedom (and also reinforce my flagging discipline) by going to acroyoga. To my surprise, when we were spotting each other in handstand I held a totally free one for ~10 seconds (which is really good for me). I wish handstands always felt the way that one felt -- sustainable, controllable, not really all that hard.

I got in a great acrobatic trio, one where I got to base someone heavier than me and also be flown by a really experienced base. So I was flying hands-free star (and ours was the last group to finish, probably the only to go hands-free, so everyone was watching us demo this). Out of nowhere the teacher challenged me to transition up to straight while keeping hands free. Slowly, amazingly, I was able to do it! I knew it was possible to do leg variations in free star, but wow, it really wasn't part of my plans for the night. It felt amazing. I might have also liked it when I came back down and everyone clapped and I blushed.

Suddenly it feels possible that I might be doing a 5-day acrobatic immersion starting on Saturday, after all. I do have acro mojo! Just have to get my booty on the Bolt Bus.

I'm writing the instructors right now to tell them I want to FLY this time, dammit, FLY FLY FLY. I based last time.