Hi Internet, I'm having a rough time, and I'm also having a hard time unpacking it all, so here we are on the blog. Let's give it a go. Here's the basics: I've been having steadily worsening lower back pain for several months. I finally started the doctor's visit/what's-actually-wrong-with-me train a few weeks ago, but [...]
Tag: ballet
A Day at Jacob’s Pillow
HI Internet--it's been a while, eh? Long story short --> Vermont, New Hampshire, Boston, Syracuse, back to Boston. Leaving for Florida in less than a week. (!) More on that later. Yesterday I voyaged across Massachusetts to see dance haven and curatorial powerhouse Jacob's Pillow in real life. Long I have heard tell of this [...]
Thoughts from A Guest-Teaching Gig
Last week I had the pleasure of guest-teaching an intermediate-level ballet class at a local studio. It's been a while since I taught ballet, and I was nervous I would forget the correct terms/tell a dumb joke to a crowd of teenagers/generally make a fool of myself. But luckily, it went rather well! And in [...]
On Goals, and Achieving Them
Hey internet--it's been a while. There are lots of things in my life I ought to talk about right now, but I'm going to restrict myself to just a few. I'm sitting on some pretty exciting news, and while in many ways it is still developing, I don't think I can keep my mouth shut [...]
September Reading Frenzy!
Hi internet--let's talk books. This month has been a watershed month in terms of reading quantity. After a much-needed vacation, I discovered how to get e-books from our library, and so now I've read everything I could get my hands and eyeballs on. Also B&N had a sale on SFF, so. You know. CHILDREN OF [...]
On My Lonesome
Hello internet! Happy Wednesday. So on the heels of my decision I've begun to plan the next 8 months of my life in earnest. And that means I now get to pick apart all the things I'm worried about and need to make, one by one, like quills out of skin. Today's Problem: I don't [...]
Decisions
I seem to have continued my summer-streak of not writing much. It's not from lack of thoughts, but rather an abundance of them. I keep wanting to write the same post over and over again, from slightly different angles, and just end up writing nothing. I don't want to be repetitive, even though the web [...]
Ballet, and Me
I have a complicated relationship with my first art. My mom put me in little-kid dance classes when I was 3, in the hopes of making her uncoordinated daughter graceful--or so she claims. Every year she would ask me if I still wanted to do dance, and every year I said yes. I kept saying [...]
Update on that Crazy Idea
Hi internet! Happy Monday. So do you recall a month ago or so I wrote this? TL;DR, I had a mighty need to make something, and I had a concept. Well, I've actually done it--in part. Yesterday I got a bunch of hapless souls--er, minions--er, friends--together and we filmed the first half of my dance video [...]
I’ve Tasted the Big Apple
Happy Friday people of the internet! I have had another adventure, this time of the big city variety. I went on a business trip this week, for the biotech trade-show Interphex, at the Javits Conference Center in NYC. Impressions? It was flipping enormous. As a newbie in the biotech world, it was really cool and [...]
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