Day 262: Laughter, Tears and Archway Road

I've heard it said that you know you're doing the right thing for a living when what you're doing feels flowing and easy, challenging but fun. This evening felt just like that and I'm all fluid with gratitude about it. Wonderful. Thank you. 

I love that I got away with it being called Pitch Ninja, and that people seemed to enjoy the stupidy bits as much as the more serious bits. More, probably. People also gave stuff a go and wanted more information after the case. I suddenly feel that this could really go somewhere and be something that I love to do and that I feel is really worthwhile doing. 

Archway Road delighted me again. I love it. I'm not quite sure why. It's steep in parts, but never painfully steep. It's long, but varied enough to be interesting. And then you get to Muswell Hill Road and there's that glorious descent. I don't usually love going downhill, but there's something about that stretch that makes me feel a little bit invincible and ready to flow. There's a satisfying last push (yesterday some teenage boys watched me come up that bit. They shouted 'You can go faster than that!'. I said 'I could, but I won't', which was true, and seemed to please them). I went up it faster today, very sweaty and very happy.

Some happy news when I got home made me cry, both with joy for them and with an ache for that to be some news that I'll have too, at some point. I want that. This made me cry too: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1EjpZU/:i6!Cpxd4:bff7Ypqa/www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity/

It's not the first time I've seen it. I know it's cheesy. Nevertheless, it had that effect. 

I also realise how nice it would be to be sharing some of this wonderful stuff with someone who is genuine and lovely, excited about the same things and.. oh, you know. All of that. 

This cheers me up, though. There's no proper video, which is probably a good thing! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WRuKDRWetg

I love Die Antwoord. They please me in so many ways. Some of their songs are so deeply offensive, I just don't get it. Love it, though. Love it. 

Thanks for the tips, Esther Lilley Harvey. I will try new ways of working with The Challenge and these teenage wonders who are so talented, and out of whom i am not yet getting the best. 

May emotions keep coming, work keep being amazing and Archway Road: don't you go changing!