At least someone in this room is sleeping...

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This is like my fourth "can't sleep" post in the past two weeks. What a lovely trend. What is different about this night, however, is that I have a lovely little snore-er on the floor next to me. Or, that is, he was on the floor a moment ago. Now he's chosen to snooze on my bed. Well, at least he's stopped snoring. This is Dash, and I'm dog-sitting him for the weekend.


In other news, here's my favorite photo from LindyGroove. Thats me and Ian, one of my favorite dance partners and an all around awesome guy. Photo curtsey of Duncan.


Ok, I'm going to go listen to some more NPR and try to fall asleep. Dash is snoring again. :-)

Sleepy

I'm too tired for a real post, but I feel like I've been neglecting my blog lately. So, hello all. I'm still here. Just sleepy....verrrrry sleepy....

Can't Sleep

I've been watching Eddie Izzard videos on YouTube because I can't sleep. Enjoy!

Home Again, Home Again

So, school is over, finals are done, my room is packed and I'm back home. I spent the day lounging around with my pugs and my mom, watching So You Think You Can Dance and catching up with each other. It's good to be back, but it's also really weird to think that a quarter of my college career is finished. Dang.
I went dancing the last two nights. On Thursday we (many Ballroom people, Duncan and I) went to LindyGroove and last night I went to Friday night Salsa on campus. So much dancing, so much fun. Social dance is just so energetic and friendly and incredibly fun to do...I love it.
Leaving school was weird. Packing up, saying goodbye....I'm never really great at that stuff. The worst was saying goodbye to Sam. I know I'll see him in a couple of weeks, maybe next week even, but it's just so different than seeing him every single day like I do at school.
But, be that as it may, I'm home and I'm happy to be here.

Happiness

SUMMER BREAK!!!

Hahahaha. :-)

For my dad:

Can't Sleep

Its 2:30 in the morning and I can't sleep....arggggg! Guess I'll proofread my paper...

Danceidy Dance Dance

My modern dance show was this past weekend, and it went swimmingly. The second and third nights were notably better than the first, for me at least, but all in all I was happy with the outcome. Though I'd choreographed a lot before, this was my first piece of choreography done at college. That being said, I feel like modern dance and I might be taking a little break in the future. Not permanently, or even exclusively, but we might just have a bit of a separation for a while. I've been dancing modern and ballet since I was in 6th grade, and I have loved (almost!) every minute of it. However, that is a damn long time, and I'm ready to try other things as well. Like Ballroom! I'm really enjoying ballroom dance right now....it's so much fun, and so much more social than modern. I'm on the school team and its been a great way to meet people this semester. So yeah, I'm definitely continuing with that. :-)

Finals and Family Trees

So, I have my last official class tomorrow, and while that completely rocks, it's also a little bit disconcerting because it means my final and final paper are right around the corner. Literally. Tuesday and Monday of next week, respectively. Oy vey. The final is identifying quotations from poems and essays we have studied throughout the year (for my Literature of the Romantic Period class), and the final paper is an 8-10 page essay on the bible, theory, and Blade Runner.

In other news, I went home last night because I was in the city for a doctor's appointment, and ended up spending a good amount of time with my family trying to construct what percentage of what nationalities I am. My mom, my dad, and I sat with tons of genealogy binders, books, scraps of paper, old letters and photos, etc, and tried to piece it all together. It was really fun, actually. My mom and I are (hopefully) going to make it a summer project of ours to computerize a lot of this stuff, make online family trees, organize binders better, etc. Should be fun! So, the final breakdown of my national heritage is (to the best of our knowledge):
1/4 Romanian/Russian (the story goes that the town we were from was on the border between the two, and so wasn't really sure which country it was a part of...)
9/32 English
3/16 German
3/32 Scottish
1/16 Irish
1/16 Hungarian
1/32 French
1/32 Dutch
DANG.

My, oh my!

I turn my back and suddenly my block has become Wisteria Lane 2.0! Word on the street (literally) is that the previous occupants of house behind mine were using the building for the filming of amateur pornos. Yep, true story. My seemingly-innocuous East Valley neighborhood has been infiltrated by the skeezy, scantily-clad, and poorly-dialogged. And, in case porn wasn't enough, it seems the place was a bondage parlor as well. According to the new residents, one room in their house has even come equipped with what my mother has referred to as "shall we say...some very unusual built-in furniture." Like I said, my, oh my.

Classes

I almost forgot! I got (almost) all the classes that I want for next semester. Here's what I'll be taking

• Biology, Gender, and Society (This class fulfills my science requirement! Yay!)
• Introduction to Women's Studies
• The Holy Fool: Comic/Ugly/Madness
• The Bible as Literature
• International Beginning Latin Dance

Dancing and Napping

Sorry I haven't posted a lot recently, I have been dancing like nobody's business this week, and that has pretty much eaten up all my time. My ballroom dance concert is this weekend, (see photo) and that means rehearsals out the wazzoo. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday featured lovely 7:00 am rehearsals (ack!!), and now we've got late-night dress rehearsals, and then the show! So yeah, lots of dancing. Dancing and napping. But not enough napping, as I'm still super-tired.