Open night at the studio yesterday meant 3 free hours of pole work!

But it was too cold (windchill factor at 7°C) and the poles were slippery because warm hands on cold steel poles meant lotsa condensation. My arms felt really weak and my hands were slipping off the (upper part of the) pole that I kept sliding when I inverted mid-pole to chopper, and couldn't even have enough grip to get from scorpio to star.

Still, I tried out the new way to get into brass monkey that I'd been visualizing - bat to brass monkey - and it worked!

I just read this on the Hardware Zone forum (re: AWARE takeover) and laughed my ass off:

24-04-2009, 11:35 AM
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Emperess [sic] Palpatine?? The Sith always comes in pairs, a Master and a [sic] Apprentice....


Luke...... *heavy breathing*... I am your Motherrrrrrr...

XD

Not sure why though ...

Read this today:

While homosexuality is clearly wrong, it is not the worst sin either, he said. People who are involved in homosexuality are no worse than people who lie. However, there is a tendency for the church to condemn homosexuality more than other wrongdoings.

"He", of course, would refer a certain pastor in that cult church. (Yes, that particularly vocal one.)

And it made me think: If gay people cannot be who they really are (because of what some men had written in a certain book) and had to suppress that integral part of themselves every single excrutiating second, would they not be liars?

And who - or what - would have made liars of them?

Call it PMS or stress (stress?), but I really miss Rach at this moment. I wish I could talk to her and have her make me feel it's going to be all right.

It's just occurred to me that there's a four-letter [apparently my math has degenerated so much I can't even count now!] five-letter word for people of Thio's ilk: BULLY.

Does the entire world thrive on playground dynamics?

I get really irate and frustrated with people sprout drivel about the "gay agenda" and how equal rights for the LGBT community will infringe on the rights of heterosexuals, taint all and bring about the apocalypse, yadda yadda yadda.

Selectively and stubbornly ignorant? (Or ...?)

Are they for real? Do they really believe that? On what basis and whose say-so?

Haven't been following the AWARE affair back home (mainly because it had seemed a little to sensationalized when I first read word of it), but - holy fuck and all things fucked up - if Thio Su Mien is part of the new ExCo takeover team then ...

I've no words, just nausea and black portentous dread.

OMGWTF!

Some girl I see around the studio during pole came up to me yesterday and asked me if I were going to be at the studio's open night next week. She said she was bringing her friends to the studio and wondered if I could be their show monkey.

Even though I don't know her name, hey I've absolutely no problem with that! It'll be play time!

I think I'm developing a little phobia of pole prac without a safety mat.

Yes, yes, I know it's a definite no-no - at least at my previous studio it was - but my current studio just doesn't have any sort of protective matting lying around. And after my slip on Tues, I'm getting a little jittery about my inverts.

I don't want this to be one horse I can't climb back on. =( There are still so many things I want to get. Like Angel Drop (maybe) - and the many other legs-free inverts.

Sigh.

Got the yogini (and also the mid-pole version) last Friday, plus the advanced Jamilla into extended butterfly mid-pole.

But had a terrible prac this evening. I slipped from a yogini and crash-landed on hard wooden floor. My right knee took the brunt of it. My dad recently cracked his knee-cap having slipped and fallen on it. Lord, the things that shouldn't run in the family ... sigh.

Anyway, I'm growing a lump on that knee (the right one) which feels warm; also, knee feels a little stiff, but almost no terrific bruising. The last time I fell on that knee, it was because I slipped from a goddess. Gah... =/

Yikes, I've been gettin' dirtier and dirtier ...

Advanced Jamilla to butterfly (extended) - I got it!

Had a nice Easter break and now on the two-week mid-trimester break. Oh lordy, I'm so far behind in my work ... sigh.

The right side feels better; managed to get some stuff done at yesterday's practice, but I didn't dare to try the Deville again - not until I feel the ache completely gone.

Told Christine yesterday about what I might do re: Research Essay - editorial work on the A-S and O-N rune poems, plus write-ups on four different aspects. She said to send her the draft of my proposal ASAP so I could formally send it to Geoff for approval. Sigh. My working life was so, so, so much easier.

Should be up and about running errands and doing research in the library today (when it's still sunny, albeit with southerlies), but am not. Bad cold wet weather the rest of the week.

Sigh.

Gah.

Maybe I pulled something (again) from repetitions of the Deville ... or, at least I hope I'd pulled something.

Was told yesterday that it's actually possible to have ribs fractured/broken from this trick - as Jamilla had - if the pole ends up being too high up on the torso. Now I'm a little worried and paranoid.

Will monitor self this weekend. But if I'd broken anything, I'd've felt it by now, right?