(^ Bad pun that somehow popped its way into my head)
(Warning: rather negative post)
It's been a ridiculously long time since I've gotten a chance to post... it's a very tired bunhead typing tonight. I've had a busy past couple of weeks - particularly this week - with an accompanying particularly insane personal schedule. My schedule has become set, in that I awake at 5:30 every morning - and get home late. The morning commute is easy and painless, but in the evenings, all bets are off, usually referring to the bus. There was one day that I waited for a bus for a full hour... often it can be anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes - rarely is it 10 or 15 minutes (I'm lucky if it is!). Because I get home late - and still have to shower, eat and get ready for the morning and next day - I have been getting to bed very late as well. On Wednesday and Thursday night it was late - Thursday I got to bed at midnight! I skipped doing stuff to get to bed at that time - like brushing teeth even, after doing the math as to how much sleep I would be getting (about 51/2). You know you're not getting enough sleep when you wake up and your hair is still damp from the shower you took at 11:30 - or when you take your hair out of a bun after a full day of classes -- and it's still damp-ish!!) Yesterday was my birthday - a good day, but a bit surreal, because it didn't feel like my birthday. I did get 3 cakes total, though - one from my classmates, one from my host family, and one from my family! So that was nice.
I'm not a sleep obsessed person, but I'm really hurting on sleep. Sleep deprivation is not a pleasant feeling, and I don't let myself sleep on public transportation - though truly almost everyone else does. My solution is to not sit on the train in the morning - otherwise I will zonk. One of the trains in the evening can be difficult too. I'm happy to make the sacrifice though, even if it can be hard...
Hopefully more to come soon on more dancing stuff... but for now (yawn), time to try to get ahead on sleep for the week ahead!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
11 Pirouettes
From the 1985 film "White Nights" starring starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. It's become one of my favorite YouTube clips!
Monday, October 4, 2010
DanceQuote
" Dancing is like breathing - missing a day doing either is very bad."- Vera-Ellen Rohe
(More on the truth of this quote to come!)
Sunday, October 3, 2010
My weekend
So I'm feeling much better now, thank you! Many thanks to coldeeze, my cold only lasted a day - Wednesday. Thursday I was back into my routine, feeling fine. It was pretty miraculous!
My longest days are Friday, which can be a bit of a pain when I'm trying to head home on the weekends. I get out at 6:15 and then have to book it to get to my train connections. But even so, I miss the early trains - and the nearest departing train is around 8PM. So I take that and come home at around 10PM.
This Saturday we went to a large waterfall that is fairly near us - not too much of a drive. It was an amazing rushing, tumbling sight after all the rain that the tri-state area has received - or more truthfully, the East Coast! (But did we need it!) I got some nice photos:
So I had a nice "mini-weekend" and am now just enjoying the afternoon - though the weather has turned very cold, and has in turn made me miserably cold most of today! Brrr. (So far, anyway. I just wrapped a furry scarf around my neck.) I didn't think I'd be able to get out of bed this morning - it was much too much inviting to just remain under the covers. (I'm not a sleep oriented person, but you'd be surprised what rising at an hour when half the population is dreaming does for one.) Well, hopefully the mild weather of October will come back soon - I'm not saying that I don't like scarves and jackets and hats, though - just a pleasant warm breeze accompanying the smell of fresh fallen leaves, too.
I had a bit of a disappointment with an order I placed for a bigger dance bag that I desperately need. Sad to say, big bags are hard to find - unless they are the gigantic gym bags with the brand names (which I don't want). This bag was just not big enough. The search goes on! Grrr.... Going to try my luck with Land's End or something - it's frustrating when you can't get what you specifically want. But hopefully within a few weeks I can get a bag that works - i.e., doesn't take up half a car of the Path train, can hold most of my stuff including lunch, notebooks, etc, etc, etc... Anybody have a genie that I can talk to? I seem to have misplaced mine. ;-)
Well, that's all for now. Enjoy the first week of October!
Until next time,
Bunhead
My longest days are Friday, which can be a bit of a pain when I'm trying to head home on the weekends. I get out at 6:15 and then have to book it to get to my train connections. But even so, I miss the early trains - and the nearest departing train is around 8PM. So I take that and come home at around 10PM.
This Saturday we went to a large waterfall that is fairly near us - not too much of a drive. It was an amazing rushing, tumbling sight after all the rain that the tri-state area has received - or more truthfully, the East Coast! (But did we need it!) I got some nice photos:
So I had a nice "mini-weekend" and am now just enjoying the afternoon - though the weather has turned very cold, and has in turn made me miserably cold most of today! Brrr. (So far, anyway. I just wrapped a furry scarf around my neck.) I didn't think I'd be able to get out of bed this morning - it was much too much inviting to just remain under the covers. (I'm not a sleep oriented person, but you'd be surprised what rising at an hour when half the population is dreaming does for one.) Well, hopefully the mild weather of October will come back soon - I'm not saying that I don't like scarves and jackets and hats, though - just a pleasant warm breeze accompanying the smell of fresh fallen leaves, too.
I had a bit of a disappointment with an order I placed for a bigger dance bag that I desperately need. Sad to say, big bags are hard to find - unless they are the gigantic gym bags with the brand names (which I don't want). This bag was just not big enough. The search goes on! Grrr.... Going to try my luck with Land's End or something - it's frustrating when you can't get what you specifically want. But hopefully within a few weeks I can get a bag that works - i.e., doesn't take up half a car of the Path train, can hold most of my stuff including lunch, notebooks, etc, etc, etc... Anybody have a genie that I can talk to? I seem to have misplaced mine. ;-)
Well, that's all for now. Enjoy the first week of October!
Until next time,
Bunhead
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