So apparently the cost of living in Nashville rose by $9,000 in the last year.

That is not a typo. There is not an extra zero added on to the end there.

It's been real, transplants, but y'all can go home now.

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Flying sit spin: It actually flies now! There is a recognizable jump rather than what appears to be me having an awkwardly-timed spasm.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Back camel spin: Uhhhhhhh apparently this is now a thing? Kind of? I've been working on it for a week and somehow it's further along than the back scratch spin I've been working on for almost three years. ( Read more... )

Good news: Yesterday I wrote almost 800 words on the Northern Exposure fic I've been working on in various iterations for at least ten years. (Like most, I have a "Joel returns to Cicely" story in me; mine's just taking a while to expurgate itself.) I also pulled out the not!drawerfic for the first time in almost three years and added about 200 ( Read more... )

I start round five of physical therapy in a week and a half ( Read more... )

Skating: I kinda did a flying sit spin today! Okay, there wasn't any much sit, but there was some spin and even a couple inches of fly. I landed on one foot and kept spinning. I'll take it ( Read more... )

I started learning flying spins today. Flying camel is premature, because I haven't yet figured out back spins (you can only fly into a back camel), but flying sit might be accomplishable by me sometime in the next decade. You wind up like usual for a sit spin, jump straight into the air, and then land on that foot and start spinning ( Read more... )

Now that the competition's over, we're back to loop and flip (loop, always loop...I swear, I'm throwing a party when I finally land this damn jump on one foot) and footwork. I want to have fabulous brackets, counters, and rockers. After a week, I'm able to do a tiny, wobbly version of the forward outside/back inside bracket sequence from the ( Read more... )

Arthritis: My latest flare was at least nicely-timed. I saw my rheumatologist three days into it and started a steroid pack that day. He also gave me a rather immense amount of prednisolone and pretty much told me to experiment with it. The literature suggests that one per day is within normal variance for naturally produced corticosteroids and ( Read more... )

Skate Nashville was fun. I actually had competition in the freeskate. There were enough adults that it wasn't just me in my division ( Read more... )

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