Tomorrow, y'all! Late tomorrow, I'll admit, but tomorrow!

In 12 days! (give or take an hour), I will be on a flight to Memphis, Tennessee. I'll be home for a month (until Jan 9th), and during that time I'll be taking at least two road trips. One of these will be north, wandering through to Chicago. The other will be east, hitting Nashville and maybe Knoxville. I really want to see as many people as I ( Read more... )

Like a drowning swimmer emerging for a second from beneath the waves to describe what the trouble is, I write this post ( Read more... )

Phew! Eaten by school! I took Japanese last semester, and it Kicked Me Around. It was fun, but a bit depressing. These second year students, whose teacher lets them know on a regular basis that they are her worst students ever, are MUCH better than I ever was after 3-odd years. Anyway, it was still fun. And it let me keep my keep-up-japanese ( Read more... )

So the dance show has been over for a week, and I'm only just starting to feel like I have some control over my life :). Actually, I've been having a lot of fun this past week, doing things other than dancing. Like . . . other kinds of dancing. And work ( Read more... )

So after stressing the rest of us out last semester with their "you HAVE to have your piece DONE by NOW!", several of the choreographers didn't bother showing up to the run-through today. And the Shim-sham is about like I thought it would be. 60 people in 5 "lines" (they don't have very good data precision), shuffling about pretty much at random ( Read more... )

Just a short update ( Read more... )

It took me a while to get around to my christmas holidays. As of Friday the 22nd, I was still in the lab, albeit only for a meeting with the man from BP who controls my funding :). I used the weekend to knit and clean my room, which was good, because I got SO MUCH yarn for christmas! Yay! Now I have to find things to do with it all . . . except ( Read more... )

Ok, so the last time I updated I was about to enter an extremely busy couple of weeks-not the absolute busiest of my life, but let's just say I was thankful that I didn't have classes and papers and so on. At the end of said weeks, the play was over, as was the thanksgiving dinner (20 people showed up, and if we do it again I think we're going to ( Read more... )

I'm actually settling down into a routine! Ok, so it consists of "go to work, read boring things for eight hours, go to rehearsal, fall into bed", but it is a routine nonetheless! Rehearsals for the play are amusing--the cast has fairly good chemistry with one or two exceptions--and going to the bar afterwards for socializing really helps us come ( Read more... )