It's all kind of a blur

Do you ever have a crazy night, one of those ones where you eventually stumble home thinking I can't believe I actually did that!?

So do I.

May flowers

Work is going swimmingly these days. My boss went away for a while and you know what they say... when the cat's away the mice will wrap everything on his desk in aluminum foil. Helping to do this was quite rewarding -- I'd heard stories of foil-wrapped dorm rooms and so forth, but never actually gotten to see it done. So I'm delighted to share the very pink results with you:



As you might guess, the new arrival is a baby girl. :)

Also, here are some earrings I made last night, out of pieces of other earrings I didn't like so well. Before you go giving me points for being a good recessionista, I should confess that this got me thinking about earrings, and so yesterday I went out and spent $30 on a pair of new ones as well. This was more just about having fun making things, which is a kind of fun that can be had with many, many media, leaving nothing terribly special about jewelry-making. Wires and pliers do offer a lot in the way of fast gratification though, and every year or so I find myself having a little spree like this one.

Spring balancing act

In April we got actual acrobalance classes started up in Cambridge! Okay, it's not as good as a full circus school with dedicated handstand classes, but it still fills me with joy and is good enough to pull me away from working late on Tuesdays.

Here I am standing on top of Zac Diener, the teacher -- and this image is worth clicking to see the large version, just for the sheer bliss on my face. (I also look pretty big here, in an acrobat way; am I on my way to having real acrobat shoulders?) Zac is very nice to stand on.



Here's a harder pose that very much represents what I do in acrobatics these days. Since I love to fly and base, and am of medium size, I'm a good middle person in three-person tricks.



I've been prioritizing pretty strictly lately, trying to keep everything together so that I can work hard and play hard without exploding. After many weekends of extra effort I'm all caught up on email, and I've been sleeping enough that I'm actually off caffeine. So that's success, for now. :) One of the many things I'm explicitly allowing to fall by the wayside is cooking, which is why I had to take a picture last week of my most successful assemblage in a while: banana slices, with Nutella and an almond and some cinnamon on top.



I also made taro fries tonight on a whim, after spotting a taro root in the grocery store and thinking vaguely of Terra Chips. It's a bit sad, isn't it, that I'm proud of making a one-ingredient recipe? Any time that I actually apply heat to food these days, it's a tiny domestic triumph.