This weekend, I corrected a grievous oversight plaguing my life: I finally saw a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers flick (Top Hat). The plot was so incredibly lame* that I wound up fast-forwarding through most of the talky bits to get to the dancing, which is magnificient. I wanna be able to do that ( Read more... )

I'm contemplating switching from my current Adama/Roslin mood theme to the Sound of Music one here, but I think that every time I post, or reply to something on one of my entries, or see one on my flist, I'll probably start singing "The Lonely Goatherd" to myself, and I don't think I could handle that. I believe I shall have to make my own mood ( Read more... )

Remember Igor and Svetlana, Kenyon's ballroom coaches that I used to talk about a lot? Well, someone has put up videos of them on YouTube! In particular, this Tango is pretty awesome. I always wanted to be even a hundredth as fabulous as them. Never quite succeeded before graduation. (If you view all that person's videos, there's one of the 9/ ( Read more... )

One nice thing about work is that today it allowed me to make the following pun: "The circuit breaker section in this package really tripped me up."

(And it did, too. That one had all kinds of little pieces I'd never seen before and which would not pull up in the online digest, and...urg. Evil little section ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas...Ballroom? The local PBS station decided to air footage from the open pro finals of Ohio Star Ball tonight, so of course, I had to watch. I think it was this year's, although possibly it was from 2005. There was lots of good stuff. There was of course the two twelve-year-olds who did a better Quickstep than I could ever hope to ( Read more... )

Don't ask why, but I was looking at the course catalogue for this year. I found that Klein is currently teaching the "History of the English Language" course that I would have taken during fall semester last year, except that he changed it to a weird course on "Dialects of English," so I switched to Anglo-Saxon. ARRRGGHHHHHHHH, I HATE YOU, KLEIN ( Read more... )

Tonight was my last official Kenyon ballroom practice ever.

How did this happen???

I have videos from the exhibition. Wheee, videos! I put them on YouSendIt, but on the off chance any of them get used up or expire before you see this (and that's a horrifying thought), there are also copies on my own webspace. For the sake of bandwidth, please try the YSI ones first. If they're not working, right-click and save the others. ( Read more... )

I think, based on my two experiences with it, that when people ask Ballroom to do an exhibition, they really need to define what their idea of "exhibition" is. Perhaps also what their idea of "ballroom dancing" is ( Read more... )

As I suspected, I'm wearing what we fondly refer to as "The Pink Monster" for the trustees dinner. Hey, they asked for us to wear our big poofy Standard dresses.

( Cut to save your eyes from bleeding )