With dance classes and workshops, I’ve noticed a few things that keep occurring (as well as with normal school stuff). They aren’t gigantic problems, but they are little issues that bother me a bit. Today’s post is simply about behaviors I think are good for classes or workshops. Wear non-noisy gear. Particularly in workshops, where [...]

Now that the quarter is over, save for the obsessive grade checking, I find myself with more time to complete those goals I created at the beginning of the quarter and do some others. They are as follows: Complete grad apps. That’s an imperative and not one of those goals I can just avoid Go [...]

As I mentioned before, I had skipped the show to do some studying. Mardi was miraculously the same as the previous day; I myself was a bit tired, and I hadn’t performed in a show the night before. The workshop began with drills again. Somehow, they were a bit easier. I really liked how Mardi [...]

I arrived to the Mardi Love Workshop slightly distressed, because I thought I was late. Luckily, I forgot that Sonya starts her workshops about a half-hour later than the advertised sign-in time, so I was on time. I have no experience with workshops from The Indigo members, so I didn’t know what to expect. To [...]

Although I should be working on my EM final, I’m too tired from all the computational physics work that took over my life. This is a short note so that people know I’m alive, still working hard, and survived day 1 of the Mardi Love workshop here in Chicago. It’s been fun and educational. I’ll [...]

So finals are officially today. The last bunch of electronics students took their practical final yesterday. It didn’t go so well overall. It was a bit of a downer for me, since I wanted to see them succeed and I also got called mean. The reason is because I docked 40 points out 100 for [...]

For the last 2 weeks, Danielle has only observed me dancing, rather than dancing with me and observing. The reason being that she cannot catch everything I do wrong while she herself is moving. At first, I felt nervous doing this (with all the attention on me, I generally feel nervous during a private lesson) [...]

To kick back the reviewing, I decided to go with The Essence of Belly Dance, by the Al-Ahram Orchestra. This was yet another find on Emusic. Overall, it’s a nice mix of classic music, perfect for building up your collection. Although I do like the classics, I don’t feel that this mix is anything standout [...]

Firstly, I must apologize for the shortage of updates. Not having internet at home has killed the updating thing. The short version is RCN was confused on many things with internet. The good news is that we will receive a visit from RCN and that their confusion has resulted in a pretty sweet discount for [...]

Things are coming to a close again. Today was the last day of lab for electronics. They went out loudly, since they were doing 555 timer chips and stuff with a speaker. The short of it is that it sounded like an ambulance siren. My eyes and ears hurt a little after this lab, since [...]