oh please god no - no sickies! :(

woke up feeling a bit shitty this morning. hoping that it will go away with a couple of good night sleeps (severely lacking) and zinc and echinacea and stuff. i still managed to drag my ass to conditioning class, which i think was rather ballsy, considering I knew the pain awaiting me.

but I made it and, well, three good things happened.

1) I did 10 pull ups non-stop with no help for the third day in a row. i don't think i thought this would ever be possible. it's still sinking in.

2) I finished my trapeze. daniela taught me how to tape the bar and now she (the trapeze) is good to go. she is so beautiful, but alas, I did not have the strength left, nor the appropriate number of carabiners on me to take her for a first test spin. maybe tomorrow. since I will NOT be sick tomorrow. hell no. I'm going to rig her up like a single-point trapeze (i.e. the trapezes in Expedition 6 except that mine is a slimmer metal bar with longer thicker ropes made from hemp). this is very exciting. :)

3) a very nice young man at the center named Stan seems to have compiled some very cool pics from the Showcase. This one is so awesome. I want it to be the entry page to my website as well as my business card. badass:



and I think this one will be a good promo shot as well:



(deb - he's gonna zip them for me, so we'll have them for the site. :) yay!)

now, um, I've just got to start, uh, training on the silk again. that would be good. training is good.

In other news...

My dear friend Arika in LA LA Land has signed with a killer agent - William Morris. I am shouting her news from my blog as I am as excited for her as if it had happened to me. This was a long time coming and a LOOOOONG time deserved. Arika currently writes for "South of Nowhere" on the N channel (I have it on DVD if anyone wants to check it out.) The main character is a lesbian. in high school. it's VERY progressive. Arika also has some excellent pilot scripts that will now be in a better position to be bought, what with a KICKASS agent, so let's all wish her well. She deserves it. :)

Also - MARK YOUR CALENDARS - there is some pretty awesome rock coming up...Saturday, October 20th at the bar that used to be the Sandbar but is now the Riptide. Both Hammer of the Godz and (i think) Godz of Rock will be playing and it looks like perhaps i will even have a cameo. should be really fun. it's at taraval and 47th out in the sunset. music starts at 9pm. check it out: riptide i actually love this bar and I don't like bars. how's that for an endorsement. :)