Mid-week skating

Mixed bag of a practice today. On the positive side, my forward swizzles have become awesome. I'm clacking my toes together with the best of them, and my knee bend is pretty good. My backward swizzles were...not horrible. Not great, but not horrible. Zig-zags were about the same. And I've aaalmost taught myself a forward crossover.

Plus, the entire public session only had about twenty people on it. Eeeeexcellent.

On the negative side, I had some weird lacing problem that pained the outside of my left foot and ankle rather badly. I went down a size in the rental skates on the advice of my instructor, and I think it was a good idea, because my feet don't move around in the skates anymore, but at the same time, it feels like I...don't have enough blade? Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to the smaller skate and consequent shorter blade. Plus the weird lacing didn't help. It didn't feel too tight, just...I can't even describe it. Maybe it was just my body freaking out at actually having ankle support since I went down a size?

In other news, I have somehow, over the last two months, produced 18,000 words of the drawerfic I thought was just going to be a scene or so. If I continue to follow my vague outline, this puppy is going to be five times that long, at least. Um. It's fun, though!