{"id":8157,"date":"2016-11-11T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:33:05","slug":"the-mamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-mamba\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mamba"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnA friend wrote something on her Book of Faces, and instead of taking up all her comment space, I thought I\u2019d put it here. I felt impressed to say a couple of words, but then it went into many words and then paragraphs<\/em>. OMG I take a lot of words to say a thing.<\/p>\n

At some point in my life\u2019s ride, I stopped thinking, planning, wishing, and dreaming and got on the rollercoaster and went for the ride to see where it went and deal with the fallout later. I did a bizarre, outlandish thing. I wasn\u2019t afraid because I wasn\u2019t thinking. I was moving too fast to think anyway, too fast to second-guess myself. That thing I did got me exactly what I\u2019d been looking for. But the rollercoaster ride was twisty and \u2026 fun. It was a grand adventure, really. That was 14 years ago.<\/p>\n

Then this summer, I got on a real rollercoaster for the first time in 25 years. I didn\u2019t really want to. I don\u2019t like rollercoasters. But Dude and XX Tax Deduction wanted to ride it so there I was with XY Tax Deduction who really<\/em> didn\u2019t want to ride it and after the first drop, it was wonderful<\/em>. Well, I rode it a few other times and the last time I rode it, I didn\u2019t have the lap bar down quite as tight, so I wasn\u2019t completely pressed into my seat. And on the first hill and drop, I floated<\/em> above the seat just an inch or whatever, but it was a fucking grand epiphany.<\/p>\n

Nobody ever told me that the secret to riding rollercoasters is to keep the lapbar just a tidge loose so you can let go<\/em> and float<\/em> over the hill and drop.<\/p>\n

I have very rarely felt such an intense joy in my life as I did that moment I floated over the drop because my lapbar made it possible for me to let go<\/em> and physics did the rest.<\/p>\n

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1<\/a>.<\/span>  Met a guy online. Married him 6 months later. Had a kid 9 months after that. My only complaint is that we were stupid about buying a house.<\/p>\n

2<\/a>.<\/span>  The Mamba at Worlds of Fun.<\/p>\n

3<\/a>.<\/span>  The Zulu, now? I won\u2019t even go into what the Zulu does to me, le sigh, but I ride it as much as I possibly can and then collapse on a bench in a glorious languor when it\u2019s worn me out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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