I started taking skating classes again! It has been pretty good so far. The only thing I do not like is the spinning. Oh my god I'm so dizzy and my brain hurts. Apparently it's supposed to get better. It has been...but it's painful. Also I am amazingly hungry afterwards ( Read more... )

I watched Davis & White's 2010 Olympics free dance, and it was a bit...well, disappointing.

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I don't know, it's technically executed beautifully (and dramatically, too; I loved the transitions from the quieter music to the clashing louder one). They're always so very fluid - here's the original dance Read more... )

I went ice skating today. In retrospect, I could have chosen a better day. It was negative thirty with windchill. Oops.

I can still skate backwards! I can still brake! I can still skate, period! It's been a few years. I didn't attempt spins. (I hate spins.) There were perhaps two or three dozen people out today - on a nice day, the lagoon is filled ( Read more... )

OK, sometimes this is a very anger-filled journal, or one completely swamped with reviews (It's summer. I read voraciously during the summer.)

But today. Aaaah! I went to this...erm, in the interests of accomodating my paranoia, let's call it a fair. And saw the ice exhibit--and it had a circus-style performers and some figure skaters--but also ( Read more... )

Watching the skaters after they perform, as they wait for their scores, is almost heartbreaking, to use the cliché phrase. That anticipation and dread--they're on national, international TV, and who wants their anguish splashed all over that screen?--is nonetheless painfully obvious. They wave to the camera--presumably us, but the skaters are ( Read more... )

The figure-skating and ice dance are Olympic sports, and yeah, the skaters are absolutely amazing to watch. The only thing is, they and their routines have never stuck in my mind quite as clearly as an amateur skater ( Read more... )