hey! i'm on the blog!!! it's totally late at night and i should be sleeping!!

melissa, pilates studios are gross. i am glad you broke their dang stupid torture spring. there is nothing magic about that lame ass circle thing.

jenny, i feel you. if you can't find the dang 1, what the heck... i just make all of my combos in like 5's and 7's and then count them all off with "1, 2, 3, ready ready go!"

katie, please make up some petit allegros for us. my entrechat trois are getting crummy from all of this silly modern dance teaching.

in other news, the fall concert at NU was totally freaking great. on the real, i kid you not. there are some smart peeps there who are making cool shit and dancing it pretty darn well. i felt proud of my kids and also a little like, whoa i only made silly dances with pipe-cleaner glasses while i was here.... suz lee was, as per usual, in her blue rolling chair just inside of the ballroom door. they now pass out those camp chair things so you can have a back to your bleacher seat. it kind of makes you have swass and a weird trapped feeling, but i guess it's an upgrade.

i gotsta go to bed. i am feeling, despite the meditation music flowing from my ipod right now, some wicked anxiety. tomorrow's my last day of like everything before i go home for thanksgiving and then leave for florida with LPP on monday. crazy! it's super exciting and cool, but i have lots of administrative and teacherly tasks to finish before i head out of town. i haven't told my columbia kids that i'll be missing their last 4 classes yet, so i hope that goes over smoothly..... they will probably freak because that's what they do.

i hope you're all stretching your hamstrings twice daily and making up some new choreo and beating your pointe shoes with a mallet to soften the box.