Open letter to the rest of my life

Dear The Rest of My Life,

there are reasons I can't be sorry for how things are right now. I wish I could explain to you how fast I'm learning, how every day or two I feel neural connections slamming into place. How just a week ago today I felt the hand-to-hand feeling I now call The Zip, and then tonight my base and I got Apache Helicopter for the first time. Yes, this:

How we were curious about reverse spider roll, and so tonight we did version 1, then version 2 with a pop, then version 3 with a bigger pop (I mean, it's not clean yet but we did get three in a row) and added a death drop into it for fun and dubbed the result "Quattro". Who the hell learns that fast? We do, right now. I don't even know what I love more, my own learning or the learning things along with people... there's nothing quite like a shared victory.

I could use more rest, my day job could use more attention, and one day I will feel the pain of losing this, but carpe annum!

I'm like the white stuff, baby, in the middle of an Oreo

So then tonight I middled a 3-high in class. Crazy, crazy good. My memories of it are a little blurred, actually -- what I remember sharply is being at the park with Scooper beforehand, the moment we looked at each other and realized we hadn't tried middling/basing it together yet. We stepped into it kind of weirdly calm and nailed it, first try, with a top flyer I knew from my old castell-building days.

After we got there, so did two or three other groups. I knew it would be that way. The whole class slowly edging toward something, then getting to be part of the catalyst that tips it into Success! After! Success! -- that's all I could ever ask for. So satisfying.

That's not even all

Oh yeah. Other firsts today included foot-to-hand pistons, and pitching to standing foot-to-hand (with a half twist) -- which was kind of disastrous but with one success. Both of those were with the Ant, just in case you thought I was only lovin' on one base tonight. Nope, still slutty! I'm just sorry I didn't get to work with even more. I love all bases.

Next week I demand some time with you, soong, okay? :-)