Everything is amazing and wonderful. My Thanksgiving meal was perfect and I wound up doing even more of it on my own than I expected. My father helped me shop, did some dishes, made the desert and the brie, and poked a probe at the turkey occasionally to check if it was done. My mother helped me make the stuffing and showed me how to prep the bird ( Read more... )

I've learned two very valuable lessons tonight:
First, there is amazing dancing to be had in Dallas, rivaling the best of Oberlin.
Second, I need to wear more women's shirts. They're the only people my size.

It's great to be dancing again.

There are a few broad rules that I'm starting to understand can be applied almost anywhere. I'm going to try to share them, maybe along with some implications and specific applications somewhere along the way ( Read more... )

Taking:
Macroeconomics
Senior Seminar in Neuroengineering
Computational Neuroscience
Intro to Somatic Studies

Auditing:
History of Western Art

Extracurriculars:
Aerial Rope
Tumbling
Storytelling
SPARK

I just attended two circuses in the last two days. One, Cirque Dreams, just toured on Broadway. The other hired me on to stiltwalk for them before the show from tomorrow until New Year's Eve. I didn't bring my stilts or my costume back with me but I'll decide tomorrow whether to use a pair of borrowed drywall stilts or just finish a pair I'd ( Read more... )

My father just qualified for the Boston Marathon for the first time. He decided that his goal was to be able to run it for his 50th birthday after years of setbacks and decades as a runner. Apparently, he fell flat on his face twenty feet from the finish line after 26.2 miles of running, having simply given all he had. It wasnt an injury or a ( Read more... )

Friday's TGIF was great. It was filled with circus, and I spent hours both teaching stilting and learning acrobalance, something I'd been meaning to for years. It was also filled with distractions and, as a result, I left my backpack in Wilder Bowl ( Read more... )

To clarify, SPARK is the hip hop dance collective on campus. Just in case any of you needed a daily dose of amusement with that image ( Read more... )

Over the course of last year, I'd started to forget that I was a stilter. Now that I've remembered again, I feel much more complete. To that effect, let me unveil the steel stilts that I'll hopefully use in the steampunk cabaret next semester ( Read more... )

Commencement week was interesting. In 10 days, I managed to ( Read more... )