By uglyelf, on July 22nd, 2010%
Permalink By uglyelf, on July 16th, 2010% You’re Looking for — You’re probably trying to find circus training in Portland (aerial, tumbling, hand balancing, &c.) or you teach and want it listed, click the ‘Circus‘ link at the top of the page.
misc. — There’s now a members section, but it’s just for friends. The fun (geeky) stuff is in there. As a hobby I write terrible, terrible fiction. I have a few friends who like to read it. I’m hoping to get some of the other contributors to bare their creations there. And last, blog posts from my trip to europe are squirreled away in the members section at the behest of the people I traveled with.
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By uglyelf, on July 7th, 2010%
By uglyelf, on June 24th, 2010%  Late art FTW OK, OK. I haven’t been writing. I’ve been busy, true, though no more busy than normal. I think the bigger problem is I’ve switched off coffee and onto tea. Why you ask? Wait, you don’t care? Well I’ll tell you anyway. Hand shake. No, two words. Not handshake. I literally shake a lot. Don’t know why exactly. But with my favorite past time equilibre, shake is a major problem.
I don’t drink much booze, and never the night before a hand balancing class. I don’t eat sugar, starchy plants, or grains, but I shake like mad all the same. Switching from two cups of coffee (16oz total) in the morning and two cups of tea (again, 16oz total) in the afternoon, to nothing but two cups of tea in the morning has been rough. I’m not going to lie to you. Damn, I love me some wine-of-the-bean.
But as for no writing, that’s the coffee too. I find I’m not creative, my writing is stilted and dull, and I have little urge to commit thought to paper without my good friend Caffeine. It’s sad, and I like to think she misses me as much as I miss her—my mistress of the dark and twitchy.
Anyway, I almost have a post ready that has all the sources I use for information on conditioning. So, you know, that’s exciting. I guess. If that’s what you’re into.
I really want to start getting some book reviews up here. And most exciting, I’ll be traveling in Europe starting in a week, going for almost two weeks. That’s probably what I’ll write about.
Much love (for coffee, not you),
-Ugly Elf
By uglyelf, on June 1st, 2010%  The Ugly Elf It’s been a tough week for me, and I’m not sure why. I’m getting frustrated with the lack of progress on several fronts, sure, but that doesn’t add up to my current dark mood. It would sure beat all if we could have some spring weather though. Three weeks of mostly rain sure puts a damper on things.
OK, anyhoo. New WordPress theme. New favicon (Tybalt!). New Logo – The Ugly Elf arm. I’m currently accepting comments and recommendations on how to make the site better. I mean, if anyone comes here. It is just getting started. I hope to have a few book reviews up within the next week or two, and I hope to have my guide on how to start eating write. Wish me luck.
-Ugly Elf
By uglyelf, on May 18th, 2010% On May 18th, 1983, my dad died. It wasn’t cancer, or an auto accident; not hypertension, CVD, or Hepatitis C. He died because he killed himself.
Needless to say, the man had issues.
But I was six, I don’t remember (many of) the issues. I remember little magic tricks; a compulsion to tease one if it would make everyone else laugh; cans of mandarin oranges in the Christmas stocking because “it’s not Christmas without mandarin oranges”; watching him and my brother shooting rifles in the woods; dark hair, dark eyes, and an even darker smile–something was eating that man; I remember the painting of a tiger he made (it was stolen, along with everything else I owned, in 98); I remember his love of photography, rural life, science, and acoustic guitar; I remember long train rides, short answers, and questioning looks….
The man had issues, sure, we all have issues, but the man didn’t get something that seems pretty basic to me: you don’t go out because there are things bringing you down, you go on because there are things bringing you up. I accept that some things I’ve been through will never stop hurting, time does not heal every wound, but I also know that around the next corner is something delighting. I don’t live for the pain, I live because of conversations, stories, art, poetry, music, experience, circus, movement, relationships–and yes, relationship failures. All the wonderful little things, warm kittens, hot coffee, daydreaming, and funny textures below my fingertips.
I miss you dad. Honest truth: I doubt you’d be proud of me (but you’d be proud of Gannon! that man has done well!), but you wouldn’t be ashamed of me either. Your sister always thought I was a changling babe, and maybe I was, I don’t know. What I do know is I’m not going out like you. No. I’m going to go out the way nature intended, the way millions of years of ancestors went out: by picking a fight with tasty-looking woodland creatures… or maybe of old age in my bed. That’s cool too.
Also, maybe I shouldn’t blog with insomnia.
-Ugly Elf
By uglyelf, on April 26th, 2010% Hello, and welcome to the enrichment center. I don’t know what I’m doing yet, but I’m excited and on my way.
This theme will not do. I’m going to have to find something to work for now, but so far I’m terribly dissatisfied with the available options. In the long run, I’ll have to modify one to suit my own tastes, I think.
I hope to do book reviews, blog entries, exercise and nutrition (in a funky, not redundant but fun sort of way), writing tips, and old-man-rant-style “wisdom”. Wish me luck.
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