Hanging from me knees…

so yesterday morning i found my way to the Circus Center of San Francisco. i walked in feeling completely out of place and like i hadn’t seen a gym mat in 15 years (which is probably true) and more than a little intimidated. a little over an hour later, i was suspended 15-18 feet in the air (in the smack dab center of the gym) from a rope that i had just CLIMBED with me own little hands and feets! ohmigoodness. can i just say that again?!?! i climbed up a rope. okay?!?!?! see - i was the girl in gym class who could barely manage the BAR HANG, let alone a goddamn pull-up. and yesterday, i somehow (almost gracefully, mind you!), hauled my 5’8’’ frame up a freaking rope. yeah. it was a personal victory. (actually the personal victory part was probably the fact that i managed not to burn off any skin on the way back down…) www.circuscenter.org

on an equally exciting, but not so strenuous note, i just finished “Saga of the Swamp Thing”, which kicked ass, and i think that i am developing a bit of a crush on the large mulchy tortured mass of greenness (but don’t worry Neil, you are still my #1 boyfriend)… also recently finished ‘Conrad’s Fate’, by Diana Wynne Jones, who REALLY deserves a wee slice of the attention pie afforded to that lad over at Hogwarts and the woman who created him.