flexagon | A slow-paced day, and acroyoga performance

The year is winding down, and the things I was hoping to do this year are more or less determined. I didn't really realize that a calendar decade is also over until I saw a decade-in-review post from

cook_ting... of course, a decade ends every millisecond, and it's also hard for me to get psyched for a single zero after living through y2k.

Today's chilly and I'm tired. A bad day for going out, a good day for staying in and drinking half-caf coffee and maybe reading a little calculus while "active resting" on the elliptical machine. Last night I did acroyoga for money for the first time, at a corporate holiday party, and that wore me out pretty well. I promised I'd tell

nevers about it, so here are some details... basically, we were there for a total of a bit over three hours. Things weren't very organized, so we didn't do formal "sets". We wore normal yoga clothes but each of us a different color -- I was red, and the other three were wearing blue, green and black -- the bright colors somewhat fit a Lego theme the party had going on. We warmed up in a room where some musicians were already warming up, and I can only hope we distracted them as much as they distracted us (by being loud and making it hard to hear each other). A photographer was in there, so we did some four-person poses/pyramids against a wall to let him get good pictures.

Then we went searching for spots large enough and carpeted enough to do our thing in... I should mention this was a HUGE party covering four floors of a decent-sized office building. The first spot we found was sort of at the junction of two hallways, and we split into pairs and flew there for 5 or 10 minutes. We drew a crowd just in time for my friend the belly-dancer to kick us out of that corner because they were doing a planned-out, choreographed set in that corner. So we were sort of the opening act for them, and we watched the belly dancing, then moved to another corner. That's when we were approached by the first Curious People, and we flew a couple of guys and one girl (flying in heels? ha ha, kind of adorable but dangerous-looking!). One of the guys wanted to do some basing and a headstand too. This is also when I ran into a fellow Zillianaire who I think is doing venture-capital stuff with one of the companies in the building, which was funny.

When the people thinned out we moved down to the next floor where we eventually wound up our evening. Here we attracted a break-dancer guy who walked all around us on his hands and then kipped back to his feet, to show off, but didn't want to play with us. Then we attracted more curious folk who we flew, one of whom sort of turned himself into our agent and started roping in everyone else that he knew ("c'mon! it's amazing, you have to try this"). Basically we interacted with partygoers when approached, and interacted with each other (or with walls) when we weren't, and it was very chill and I was mostly just jamming with a subset of the people I always jam with.

I did some handstand press switches off a wall that were very calm and unhurried, and I wasn't worried at all about people watching me. I think they're my new favorite handstand exercise and have just the right levels of challenge vs. satisfaction for me right now.

Something else that happened last night: I went back to the office briefly after all that (because it was only 2 blocks away, and I had left my stuff there), and I found I had won a "citizenship award" at work for doing the giant refactor I've been attacking for months now.

heisenbug's boss had already forwarded it to all the engineers in the office with a congrats note, and now I feel all blushy. But good. :-)