Every Day is Worth Writing About

I just had a friend tell me that every day is worth writing about. This is something I can agree with, so today begins a new experiment. I’m going to try to write something in this blog at the end of every day – summation or random thoughts, or, most likely, a combination of the two.

Yesterday never really ended. I spent a long time talking to a friend last night until the birds started chirping. I learned that not everybody is looking out for me, and though that’s for granted, I expected it at least from the people I called friends. That was depressing. That, along with various issues I’ve had with people. My Chinese name means benevolence and I try to live up to it. I don’t know why anyone would have issue with me, but it’s something I need to try to understand and overcome.

So instead of sleeping, I commenced wandering around outside and made my way to a gas station, where I waited to meet up with some friends around 5:30AM. We made our way back to their place, where we just talked and I helped Audrey study until 8AM. When the sun came out, it felt like all my troubles dissipated with the night.

I went home, fully intending to do work, and then passed out until 11am, missing out on Jason Hsieh dance battling his Physics 211 professor. I was late to my dance class and tanked a choreography, but by the end it wasn’t so bad. I have a showing for it tomorrow at 11.

Two of my friends from class joined me for free food at the AACC. The food was late, and when it arrived, it really wasn’t that good. Poor quality sushi from a Vietnamese restaurant. Yes, you and I are both confused about that, because sushi doesn’t come from Vietnam.

Class class class…went home and passed out for five hours, missing dinner and the first half hour of a group meeting for an oral exam. We finished the script and Mike was kind enough to buy me a drink and a hamburger from late night. I finished downloading something using the high speed connection in the dorms, and then I headed back here (my apartment) to do laundry and, ostensibly, work.

Laundry, check. Work? Never. I plan to head over to Don’s place to get some work done, actually.

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Life of Dance

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“Life is Dance. Dance is Life.”

Coming out of a seven hour marathon of street jazz dance sessions followed by a long conversation about life, dance, and hopes for the future, there is a hesitant ring of truth in those words as I sound them out in my head. Hesitant because I don’t know where dance will lead me, or even what dance is, exactly. Hesitant because I don’t know where my place is in dance, or what I can do. True nonetheless, because Life is Dance.

It’s frightening to see something that you truly want, that resonates with your every cell, and calls to you, bleary eyed, in the middle of the night. It’s frightening to think that we might be able to do it.

I wonder what might happen if I pursued dance like so many of my friends are afraid to. Dance is our plan B, our plan C, some knock it down to plan Z, and we live our lives reaching, but never leaping.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about balance in life. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a nine to five job, steady pay, a life of relative comfort. Being able to buy what I want. But all I want is a few very specific things, and I can’t buy them.

And one of them is Dance.

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February Dance Reactions

Dance Journey Final Performance 25

Twitter version:

  • 7:30 – Show more or less beginning. I hope I won’t regret this. Modern dance really isn’t my thing.
  • 8:00 – Oh god, kill me. Another hour and a half of this? I wish I had brought my laptop.
  • 8:01 – People discussing the “meaning” of the “piece.” This ain’t dance. I call bullshit.
  • 8:30 – Well, this one isn’t bad. Perhaps there is hope.
  • 9:00 – It’s crunch time! Time for the flash mob dance!
  • 9:01 – NOT KNOWING THE CHOREOGRAPHY FAILLLLL
  • 9:02 – POORLY TIMED UNNECESSARY FLIP FAIL

I’ll be sure to post the video of our flash mob dance when it goes up!

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