I’ve decided over my school break that I’m going to make a website. All I have to do is figure out a URL. Why am I going to create a website? Because I want to. Nothing special. I used to make websites back when people first could (I taught myself how to type by making [...]

I’m midway on my way to Chicago; I have a layover in DC. Google is being generous this Christmas and supplying the airports with free wifi. Woohoo! I won’t be able to make any of them, but Arabesque is hosting some workshops post-Christmas. Have a happy holiday if I don’t post anything tomorrow and safe [...]

Carrara Nour decided yesterday that we (or at least she)  begins her 90-day practice challenge. She started it off with a doozy- 4 hour practice. Not to be expected to be completed at once. I decided to see if I could fit in two 2-hour practices today. First practice, consisting of drills and zills, is [...]

If you talk to me outside of this blog, I don’t think I’ve made it much of a secret that I’m not really interested in doing physics research anymore. There is a host of reasons why (I don’t want to be locked into one specific research area for the rest of my life, I don’t [...]

I know prop work isn’t that end all, be all of Middle Eastern dance. However, tonight after watching several clips of veil, zills, etc., I realized I should be able to do some kind of choreography with veil, zills, or cane. I’ve studied each one pretty rigorous for at least a year. I know how [...]

Everything was completed yesterday, just in the nick of time to go to dance class. It was also done in the nick of time for me to get sick today. I suspect it has something to do with my heat being broken. While I was planning a more productive day than lying around in bed, [...]

Right now, my students are taking their finals. It’s my final day for finals. Tomorrow I get to grade their exams. I’ve simply been too busy to grade them now. I am working here next semester, thank goodness. I get to teach Algebra 1 and conceptual physics. It should be interesting. I’m not 100% sure [...]

The holiday is almost here, but there is still time to get a great gift for any of the three I listed in the title. I believe gifts don’t have to be expensive or fancy, just thoughtful. Gifts for the Middle Eastern Dancer Emusic.com subscription. Lots of hard to find things are there for a [...]

I began ballet recently, as I mentioned. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I believe that I’ve mentioned in the past that ballet is incorporated in Middle Eastern dance in some sense; a lot of dancers are trained in ballet from their childhood or some similar time, so they often use balletic terms (releve`, for instance) to [...]

If you follow both of us on Twitter, Carrara Nour (one of my online dance friends) and I have decided to become motivation buddies during a 90-day dance challenge. We’ll each do something for our dance, like practice, at least once day for probably an hour or so for 90 days. The reason? Being motivated [...]