the circus is a harsh mistress

Yesterday, my absolutely incredible russian trapeze coach got me to do multiple hip circles on the static trapeze. even one hip circle is difficult. i think by my 3rd try I did 5. it was stupifying. Some of you may be saying, WTF? Arwen you are speaking total gibberish. Yeah. Ok. Point taken. Well, thank god for youtube. Here is a video that will show you a)what they are; and b) that they are so hard, someone even created a helper device to learn them: Click ME

Ok. Anyway. That’s what happened to my arms. I even had sleeves on. Circus is awesome.

Let’s see… what else? I still feel a bit crappy and we’re supposed to go see Willie Nelson tonight, so that’s a bummer. Last night we had a really lovely girls night at Ti Cous. Goddamn those crepes are good no matter what you think about the place. I was very anti-Ti Cous for quite some time due to the snottiness of the the wait staff, but it seems to be much better now. Oh god! And tomorrow I have my aerial silk debut at a BRAF fundraiser at SupperClub here in the city. Info: http://www.donatetoblackrockarts.org/2ndanflyoli4.html This should be rather daunting and exciting and certainly invigorating as long as I do not spray snot at the audience. There will be a spotlight and everything. Pleasing.

This weekend we are supposed to go to Yosemite. To camp. For 4 days. It’s snowing. We’ll see what happens. *sigh* And I had heard that the waterfalls were kicking ass. *sigh*