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What a motley looking crue! *snickers*
What a motley looking crue! *snickers*
Jan. 5th, 2005
Let me dance for you! Let me Try!
Jan. 5th, 2005 08:51 amLast night's class was wonderful. Its difficult trying to learn choreography that people have been doing for 3 months, but I'm slowly picking more of it up. I'm really liking the tap routine that's new to me - its very syncopated.
Our costumes are going to rock! Its coming from here http://www.ciccidance.com/ , though alas, they don't have pics from the catalog on the site. I'm not sure if we'll be doing the ballet routines in the show or not yet which reminds me, I need to pick up the "Center Stage" movie soundtrack so that I can practice with one of the songs. Its a pop song - I've never done ballet to a pop song before (Peggy was ever the traditionalist).
I forgot how much fun I used to have in jazz class, and I'm looking forward to learning the routines well enough so that I can actually *dance* them. We're doing routines to "Wilkommen" from Cabaret, and "Blow Gabriel Blow" from Anything Goes. Both of these are past routines that Miss Peggy choreographed, the first I've seen before and loved but never learned, the second I performed sometime between age 13-15, I can't remember. This show will be in many ways a tribute to her, and we'll be repeating a lot of her classic routines. I can't wait to do the Happy Tap again (from "I want to be Happy" from No No Nanette) with the group. Its so fast that by the end of the routine our taps are burning hot from the friction on the floor.
You all best be there to see us in late May or early June (whenever it is)!
Me = dance dork.
Our costumes are going to rock! Its coming from here http://www.ciccidance.com/ , though alas, they don't have pics from the catalog on the site. I'm not sure if we'll be doing the ballet routines in the show or not yet which reminds me, I need to pick up the "Center Stage" movie soundtrack so that I can practice with one of the songs. Its a pop song - I've never done ballet to a pop song before (Peggy was ever the traditionalist).
I forgot how much fun I used to have in jazz class, and I'm looking forward to learning the routines well enough so that I can actually *dance* them. We're doing routines to "Wilkommen" from Cabaret, and "Blow Gabriel Blow" from Anything Goes. Both of these are past routines that Miss Peggy choreographed, the first I've seen before and loved but never learned, the second I performed sometime between age 13-15, I can't remember. This show will be in many ways a tribute to her, and we'll be repeating a lot of her classic routines. I can't wait to do the Happy Tap again (from "I want to be Happy" from No No Nanette) with the group. Its so fast that by the end of the routine our taps are burning hot from the friction on the floor.
You all best be there to see us in late May or early June (whenever it is)!
Me = dance dork.
Travel progress
Jan. 5th, 2005 09:11 amWe've decided to go for 10 days. We'll leave 4/6 (a Wednesday). We'll spend Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun in London, the rest in Scotland. We won't be able to do it "all", but since we have to fly into London anyway and there are things there we want to see, its worth it to us to split the trip.
Brian's going to give AAA a call today to see how their travel agent services work. It doesn't hurt to meet with them if its free. I got free passport photos from them yesterday (since we're Plus members, its free) and if the post office is still open by the time I get home from work I'll drop in and apply (brought my birth certificate to work today). So now we just need to work on planning plane and hotels, and coming up with the $ for all of this. Hopefully we'll have the basics figured out by the end of the weekend.
The worst part of vacation planning is finding a pet sitter(s). THIS is why we never travel. Finding someone willing to come to your house at 6:30 AM to give your cat an insulin injection for 10 days straight . . . it will be a challenge :/. We've had 2 friends do this for us, and they are really great at it. However, I feel like an ass having to put friends out (I mean, we hate having to get up that early each day and he's our cat!). I'm not against hiring a petsitter, but most of them don't do insulin injections (if they do they are in Boston or Cambridge and don't want to come out to Waltham) and/or don't want to come out at 6:30 am on the dot each day. Blech!
Brian's going to give AAA a call today to see how their travel agent services work. It doesn't hurt to meet with them if its free. I got free passport photos from them yesterday (since we're Plus members, its free) and if the post office is still open by the time I get home from work I'll drop in and apply (brought my birth certificate to work today). So now we just need to work on planning plane and hotels, and coming up with the $ for all of this. Hopefully we'll have the basics figured out by the end of the weekend.
The worst part of vacation planning is finding a pet sitter(s). THIS is why we never travel. Finding someone willing to come to your house at 6:30 AM to give your cat an insulin injection for 10 days straight . . . it will be a challenge :/. We've had 2 friends do this for us, and they are really great at it. However, I feel like an ass having to put friends out (I mean, we hate having to get up that early each day and he's our cat!). I'm not against hiring a petsitter, but most of them don't do insulin injections (if they do they are in Boston or Cambridge and don't want to come out to Waltham) and/or don't want to come out at 6:30 am on the dot each day. Blech!
Got my grades
Jan. 5th, 2005 05:34 pmSemester: 4.0
Program Cumulative: 3.95 (it was Research Methods II that killed me)
That's almost $500 that I'll have more to go to the trip (once my tuition reimbursement goes through). Of course, I paid almost $3200 for that bill, but who is counting really! ;)
Program Cumulative: 3.95 (it was Research Methods II that killed me)
That's almost $500 that I'll have more to go to the trip (once my tuition reimbursement goes through). Of course, I paid almost $3200 for that bill, but who is counting really! ;)