flexagon | Grownups, please weigh in if you have any answers

I wasted a ton of today lying around on the couch reading fantasy... yay. ;)

I got to the gym though, and worked on my splits. This felt good since I've let handstand-enthusiasm distract me from flexibility lately, and I feel so much better when I stay focused and can at least feel I'm (probably) making progress. I can't get my front calf down consistently, which I was doing for a couple of weeks there, but I'll get there again.

Then I did a bunch of straddle-ups using the aerobic step and one riser. My new method is that I try to straddle up onto the step a few times, which is not within my capabilities at all, before trying to straddle up off the step; working at the harder level first is probably good discipline, and makes the easier level feel easier. :)

I'm starting to feel pretty worried that the Jamnastics gymnastics class won't run after all; they've probably lost a lot of formerly interested people now that they've found space for the class but it's way the hell out in Watertown. (I don't know what made them lose the duPont space, but whatever it is, it sucks.) They won't actually name the space, only say it's near Mount Auburn Street; I thought at first it must be at the Gymnastic Academy of Boston, but it's not... and also, they lie too. They have an open gym on Friday nights that says "All ages" but on the phone they told me that still means no adults. (I politely suggested that their website clarify the point, because ALL AGES MEANS ALL AGES, ASSHOLES.) The only other option that the map can find is a cheer academy that at least has a 'parent team'... that means they let adults into the building. My money's on that, if the class runs.

I have to admit, this little quest for gymnastic-y things really makes me wonder -- what the hell happens to human beings when they "grow up"? Maybe there isn't a lot of this (except maybe in NYC) because there isn't a lot of demand for it, and yet the amount of it that exists for kids is tremendous. Yes, I know little kids are lighter, more bouncy and more fearless, but adults have strength and discipline on their side; why don't adults seem to have the interest? Do we not have vestibular systems too? Do we not have fun? Are we all just way too self-conscious? Personally, I'm a lot more physical now than I was at any of the ages I could have reasonably found resources to do this stuff, and it's weird that it makes me so different to be on a different curve from the average.

I want to not believe this. I want to believe that if I advertised a handstand club that meets on the Cambridge Common every Saturday of summer, people would show up. Um... I just had to get this idea in late September, didn't I.