Subtext! So close to maintext!

Wait, so is this true, or just some Tumblr constructed reality GIF wizardry? Because if it's true, I may need to start watching Rizzoli & Isles again.

*investigates*

Okay, it wasn't true, but apparently a new showrunner is making hay of the awful "Jane's pregnancy" storyline by having Jane legit ask Maura to raise the kid with her (and Maura of course saying "of course," because what else would she say?).

Re-frozen

YAAAAAAAAY, my rink is opening back up a week from Saturday! The hours are super-limited until they get the second rink up (no early morning weekday freestyles, alas), but they exist, because we have ice again! Yahoo!

Step to the side and do what now?

I discovered a YouTube channel where some skating school or outfit of some sort has posted videos of every single move in the USFS Basic Skills series. (Much of the stuff I've nattered about on here comes from Basic Skills, minus my MITF exercises.)

I also discovered that the eighth and final level includes THIS. What. What. How is a cross-behind at speed, in combination, in any way "basic"? (Yeah, okay, there's one in the Rhythm Blues pattern dance, which is the third dance on the test sequence of more than thirty and so could be considered basic-ish, but it's also one of the reasons dance is way damned harder than it looks.) I can't even do them in isolation at .05 miles per hour.

It's a good thing I don't actually have to pass a test on that thing. Well, I guess if I wanted to continue taking group classes into the Free Skate levels, I might, but...I don't. At that point, it's kids all the way down, and I'll stick with my coach, thanks. Once I get a new one.