In my free moments the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about letting go of technique more (not entirely!) and sinking into music and well, just dancing. I’ve done it only a handful of times, but I feel like I’ve made some progress. After all, I can just sit around, wondering what if? or get [...]

I’ve felt a little more cynical lately (and busy), so having a good day to write about feels great. Today was P’s thesis defense. P’s topic was non-linear dynamics. Even though I really don’t care for simulation presentions (I like seeing pics of equipment and other experimental stuff more), I really enjoyed his presentation. P [...]

Thursday was the last day of labs for my one group. Pretty much everyone thanked me in the room. It felt good. This quarter wasn’t easy for me for a lot of reasons. The short of it is that I’ve been overworked (filling in for TAs, just lots of schoolwork). Hearing that was the best [...]

Because I’ve been rather negative lately (worrying about applications statuses, which still have nothing), I would start focusing on the positive for next week: Going to a dance class, probably on veil. I miss group classes so much, and I really love veil Working on research. I’ve been seriously neglecting that. I’ve worked late at [...]

Because I miss the class camaraderie and seeing people, I’ve been trying to attend workshops more. Arabesque runs small workshops by local instructors. For people who are mass transit reliant, like me, this is a good way to get exposed to other instructors while not having to worry about travel. I signed up for the [...]

I decided to try a pair of L.Rose Design pants. If you haven’t heard of them, they make high quality custom dance wear that is affordable. It’s not going to be fancy, highly beaded stuff, but people claim it lasts them years with heavy usage. Also, Shoshanna of California’s mother runs it, and from what [...]