Communism. Last Friday, my school was lucky enough to have Sam Webb, the president of the American Communist Party, as a guest speaker at my school. Thankfully, it was an optional presentation held after school by one of the clubs so none of the more embarrassing half of the school would bother to go just to heckle. I was pleasantly surprised, ( Read more... )

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1) I was lying in bed and thinking about a poem on my wall called Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, when I realized how neat it would be to make a dance based on the poem. So then I started looking at other poems on my wall, like i have found what you are like by e.e. cummings. Then suddenly, I saw my pocket thesaurus ( Read more... )

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Came across. I am so envious of this girl. Not only is her technique amazing, but she does such a good job of interpreting the lyrics. Which is something I feel is really hard to do without coming across as cheesy or melodramatic at some point or another.

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1) In Western Civ. today we went to see a modern dance presentation instead of having class, which was awesome. The dancers were really good, they were our own and not like a traveling group, which made it so much cooler. This led me to realize my deuxieme mistake - not auditioning for dance. Crap. Now I'll be in Beginning Dance next year, which ( Read more... )

1) It was windy today! I'm so easily blown around by the wind, part of me honestly believed I could float away if I jumped hard enough. It's a beautiful thought and a wonderful feeling. Like that Eisley song, my absolute favorite by them - One day I slowly floated away...

2) I've been having recurring dreams of dancing ballet again. In all of them ( Read more... )

Well, first of all, it didn't snow yesterday. It was freaking 61 degrees today! I wanted to kill whatever idiot weatherman it was that predicted it'd be 49 degrees. Even though it's not really his fault and is really the fault of some butterfly somewhere flapping their wings.

But okay, it's official - I totally regret ever quitting ballet. ( Read more... )