Apparently I am dancing at the trustees dinner this Friday. Ballroom is doing a four-dance exhibition of Tango, Foxtrot, Swing and Samba; because of the inevitably dismal gender ratio, I'm actually only dancing in two of those, Foxtrot and Swing, but hey, whatever. It'll be a nice last hurrah for my four years in ballroom, particularly since I ( Read more... )

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I hate winter ( Read more... )

The concert last night went rather well. No egregious errors, anyway. :) Even after rehearsing there for a couple weeks, it's always a bit disappointing to move into Rosse after spending the rest of the semester in Brandi. It's so much bigger and so much less acoustically-forgiving, the choir immediately sounds half as full and ten times worse ( Read more... )

The first Saturday in December is always the busiest of the year in a non-academic sense. The choir concert is tonight, which of course meant rehearsal this afternoon. Ballroom's big winter dance is also tonight (after the concert), which generally means setting up after rehearsal, but they finished pretty quickly this year, so I only ended up ( Read more... )

Family members of US ice dance team write letter opposing proposed bill to allow early citizenship for members of two other teams.People! Does history teach you NOTHING? This didn't win anybody any favors in '94, and it won't do any good now! *headdesk ( Read more... )

Ballroom has a new CD full of sambas, and one of them is very firmly lodged in my head. It has no words, though, only a collection of syllables repeated at irregular intervals, and...yeah. It's a great song, but it's getting annoying ( Read more... )

Still feeling my figure skating craving unassauged, tonight I was watching my copy of A/P's Jive OD from '98 for probably the first time since high school. I totally saw part of our Jive choreography from ballroom in there. They were doing the last half of it, the part with the standing-in-one-place-and-kicking-your-leg-out-and-around (that's ( Read more... )

Meep! High/low for Thursday is going to be 59/34. Hello, fall ( Read more... )

Ohmigod ( Read more... )