Until then, did you know you can store selections using ctrl+<number>? Then press <number> to recall. Eg, ctrl+2 then later press 2.
Also you can use "loop selection": hold shift when you click an edge and it will select neighboring edges in a line. For your mesh this would require adding orange edges for the vertices you select often.
I know lasso selection is still useful and we'll do it, just mentioning these to help you out until then!
