A surprisingly fun work week

• Successfully got a tax receipt, and requested the Zillian gift match for my alma mater donation. Good!


• Went axe throwing with the local parts of my work-team and a sister work-team. I did fairly badly, and awfully in the contest, but my work friend got video of a bulls-eye I hit during the "practice" part, so I have proof of badassery happening at least once.


• Some success in doing deeper tuck handstands, earlier that same day. I posted one to Insta, and my coach responded positively in a comment. The trick to the trick, aside from do a goddamn handstand and be steady enough to move around from there (lolsob) is to let the shoulders move back toward the heel of the hand, while simultaneously keeping weight in the fingertips. Then you can round the back more and tuck deeper.


• The next day I did a bucket-list thing, and went dancing at the new iteration of Manray on goth night (!) with coraline and friends. :D No big deal in some ways, but I hadn't done it when it was last open 18 years ago, and that was always a regret. Fixed now! It was so great to go with a group! I'm not much of a social dancer, but the group helpfully primed itself with this list of goth dance moves, which was humorous enough to relax me. And indeed, the level of skill required turned out to be... not high. It was actually relaxing to just bop with the beat. So I learned some things and had fun and saw friends and was kind of tired all day the next day.


• And also the next day, but that's more because Zillian is continuing to descend into dull "standard corporate America" culture, and every such step is depressing and/or enraging even if one is resigned to the trend. One fun note in all that though -- a videochat with several other women at Zillian who are somewhere along a FIRE journey. It was remarkable how many of us (four or five, out of six) were part-time. But that makes sense. I continue to like the 80%-ness of my gig.
  

Long weekend is next up. Not too many plans. Seen on social media and I'm kind of feeling it: Do not chase your dreams! Humans are persistance predators. Follow your dreams at a sustainable pace until they get tired and lie down.