Well.
When it has been two months since your last update, you know it's time to do something about it.
I'm back in Seattle from vacation, both to Madison, WI and with my parents in Maryland. I had a grand time--cooked and ate a LOT of fantastic food, got to play music, go for walks, see some movies, and spend plenty of time sitting on my butt reading with a fluffy cat in my lap. It was a Good Time.
There have been some pretty big changes in my life in the past year, and I don't think I've written about them here, or anywhere. So, an overview:
In addition to the kids' circus classes I teach in the gym at SANCA, I started training to work in the flying trapeze tent. It is a welcome change from working short classes with very little kids--the hours are longer, and the work is both physically and mentally more challenging. Flying is awesome and exhilarating and all the stuff you'd think it'd be, but working up there is more like being a deckhand on a ship--you're surrounded by lines that can't get tangled or confused with each other, and there's a process that needs to happen efficiently, quickly, and in a very precise order. It's different socially, too. The people who work in the tent are called the Fly Team, and they act as a team in a way that doesn't happen in the gym. So far, I'm in love with it.
Music is back in my life in a big way. I play guitar with three fiddlers in a group called Skolkis--it's Swedish for truancy, or playing hooky. :) We play Swedish tunes for dancing and listening, and I love it! Swedish music is extremely bizarre to American ears, and it was really difficult at the beginning, but I've come a long way in a pretty short time and I'm having a blast playing music with fun friends, and sometimes getting paid for it. I'm also probably going to buy a new guitar sometime soon. Eek. o_o
As you know if you've been keeping up with No Horse Studio, I'm also trying to get my butt in gear in the art world also. I got to sell some artwork at a school fundraiser/craft fair around Thanksgiving, which was ridiculously fun, and actually made me some money. Right now I'm struggling between wanting more free time to make art and advance myself as an artist, and being afraid of squandering free time. I'm not very good at self-directing and -motivating, but I'm working on it, and I think I'm very slowly improving.
And finally, after months of getting all choked up whenever I see a horse anywhere (even in movies), I've finally decided to try to get back in the saddle. My plan is to apply to equestrian summer camps as a counselor for this coming summer. If it goes well, then maybe I'll be able to stay on in a work-study kind of arrangement; if I don't like it, at least I'll have a local reference at the end of the season and I can go about applying to other stables as a barnhand, groom or exerciser.
So that's where I am in life. I'm going to try to post here more; I don't like the idea of abandoning it just when my life has gotten so exciting.
If you got this far, have a treat.
What is the most exciting thing that happened to you in 2010?
<3,
ejl
I'm back in Seattle from vacation, both to Madison, WI and with my parents in Maryland. I had a grand time--cooked and ate a LOT of fantastic food, got to play music, go for walks, see some movies, and spend plenty of time sitting on my butt reading with a fluffy cat in my lap. It was a Good Time.
There have been some pretty big changes in my life in the past year, and I don't think I've written about them here, or anywhere. So, an overview:
In addition to the kids' circus classes I teach in the gym at SANCA, I started training to work in the flying trapeze tent. It is a welcome change from working short classes with very little kids--the hours are longer, and the work is both physically and mentally more challenging. Flying is awesome and exhilarating and all the stuff you'd think it'd be, but working up there is more like being a deckhand on a ship--you're surrounded by lines that can't get tangled or confused with each other, and there's a process that needs to happen efficiently, quickly, and in a very precise order. It's different socially, too. The people who work in the tent are called the Fly Team, and they act as a team in a way that doesn't happen in the gym. So far, I'm in love with it.
Music is back in my life in a big way. I play guitar with three fiddlers in a group called Skolkis--it's Swedish for truancy, or playing hooky. :) We play Swedish tunes for dancing and listening, and I love it! Swedish music is extremely bizarre to American ears, and it was really difficult at the beginning, but I've come a long way in a pretty short time and I'm having a blast playing music with fun friends, and sometimes getting paid for it. I'm also probably going to buy a new guitar sometime soon. Eek. o_o
As you know if you've been keeping up with No Horse Studio, I'm also trying to get my butt in gear in the art world also. I got to sell some artwork at a school fundraiser/craft fair around Thanksgiving, which was ridiculously fun, and actually made me some money. Right now I'm struggling between wanting more free time to make art and advance myself as an artist, and being afraid of squandering free time. I'm not very good at self-directing and -motivating, but I'm working on it, and I think I'm very slowly improving.
And finally, after months of getting all choked up whenever I see a horse anywhere (even in movies), I've finally decided to try to get back in the saddle. My plan is to apply to equestrian summer camps as a counselor for this coming summer. If it goes well, then maybe I'll be able to stay on in a work-study kind of arrangement; if I don't like it, at least I'll have a local reference at the end of the season and I can go about applying to other stables as a barnhand, groom or exerciser.
So that's where I am in life. I'm going to try to post here more; I don't like the idea of abandoning it just when my life has gotten so exciting.
If you got this far, have a treat.
What is the most exciting thing that happened to you in 2010?
<3,
ejl