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Mar. 8th, 2009 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishMy favorite coffee mug took a spill today in answer to a prophetic question, but I can't actually tell you anymore what the question was.
I'm still waiting for my grad schools to get back to me about ya know, accepting me or not. It's forcing me to check my mail with disturbing regularity, which in turn makes me wonder why I'm getting so little mail.
I went to see "Jewels" at the Boston Ballet last Friday, and my mind was blown. Those of you forced to deal with me in real life will know by now that I have to take ballet (or, really, just anything) for my phys ed requirement before I get to graduate. It's been an enlightening experience overall, mostly about how much I love stretching, and how little I enjoy physical exertion without some mental component behind it. (Running, I do not understand, no matter how often marathon trainers nearly bowl me over. Yeah, did I mention that my school is on the route of the Boston Marathon? On weekends, using the sidewalk is like playing Frogger with joggers.)
However, Jewels itself was stunning. I'm a fan of Rubies more than the others- the others were too traditional and staid for me. I'm also now a proponent of casting beefy female dancers to play male roles- screw the 115 pound girls who work all their lives to get maybe two years as a professional dance while men can get a decade and a much higher wage. Get some big women to do the lifts, and no one will care about the lack of the boys.
I'm reading Wladimir Kaminer's "My German Junglebook", and pondering how stupid transliteration customs are.
I'm still waiting for my grad schools to get back to me about ya know, accepting me or not. It's forcing me to check my mail with disturbing regularity, which in turn makes me wonder why I'm getting so little mail.
I went to see "Jewels" at the Boston Ballet last Friday, and my mind was blown. Those of you forced to deal with me in real life will know by now that I have to take ballet (or, really, just anything) for my phys ed requirement before I get to graduate. It's been an enlightening experience overall, mostly about how much I love stretching, and how little I enjoy physical exertion without some mental component behind it. (Running, I do not understand, no matter how often marathon trainers nearly bowl me over. Yeah, did I mention that my school is on the route of the Boston Marathon? On weekends, using the sidewalk is like playing Frogger with joggers.)
However, Jewels itself was stunning. I'm a fan of Rubies more than the others- the others were too traditional and staid for me. I'm also now a proponent of casting beefy female dancers to play male roles- screw the 115 pound girls who work all their lives to get maybe two years as a professional dance while men can get a decade and a much higher wage. Get some big women to do the lifts, and no one will care about the lack of the boys.
I'm reading Wladimir Kaminer's "My German Junglebook", and pondering how stupid transliteration customs are.
