Company class was SO GOOD!! Mark, I think the guy's name is, gave me a whole bunch of corrections (why do they always seem to like me better in company class than school?) and I did my best triple pirouette yet. Also, Quincy was helping me with my arms again... same as I got at Burklyn, sort of ( Read more... )

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so on monday night i had my conference with gillian, the school director... it was surprisingly good -- i get a private lesson next tuesday, for free!! somebody maybe thinks i have a shot at a job?? also, i get the private pilates sessions like the trainees do, and gillian is recommending companies for me to audition for, plus i have those two ( Read more... )

Yesterday sucked my ass, to put it bluntly. Heather, Alex, and Megan all got cast and I didn't. Also, my toe infection went from bad to worse, and I couldn't take class on pointe. Who knows whether I'll make it to partnering tomorrow ( Read more... )

so today we get up at like 10:45, eat ice cream for breakfast, lounge around, check the mail a bunch of times, go to bed bath beyond, and head out to class. an hour and a half later, we still aren't there. an hour and a half later, we're in garden grove, near anaheim. so we turn around, drive back toward irvine, and give megan a call because ( Read more... )

here i am... finally... and oh god, how weird is it to be living in an apartment. we have to buy groceries and pay the electric and rent a fridge (what the hell?) and drive to class. no more ballet pacifica van for us ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got up and got dressed and looked maybe okay, like I could go to class and be presentable... then I started feeling weird, and then I started feeling worse, and I ended up spending the day packing, making mix CDs for my old roommates, and reading ( Read more... )

If it could all work out, I would SO live here. I just got back from Cornish, from driving through Capitol Hill and Fremont with my windows all the way down. Sun in my eyes, especially as I drove through Ballard, but it felt so good. I want a car. Mom comes back on Wednesday, and then I relinquish my privileges... but I still have tomorrow ( Read more... )

Last night I made it all the way through pirouettes in class... and this whole knee issue has made them improve, I think. I did a perfect triple en dehors to the left and just stayed afterward. Like the Joseph Phillips trick. And I also did a bunch of a la secondes into attitude -- turning the attitude!! This probably sounds like gibberish to ( Read more... )

i got up at 7:45 this morning. why? mostly because my bed being right next to not one but TWO birdcages. this is the problem with sharing a room with ingrid. but tonight i am going to my mother's house, where i can sleep in -- sort of. i am going to swim a mile in lake washington at 8:30 tomorrow morning with stina, who, for those of you who ( Read more... )