Wiiiiild as a cactoid!
Nov. 6th, 2013 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieSo, uh, I may have been talked into doing the holiday skating show. I didn't realize there was an adult number, but apparently there is, and now I'm going to be part of it. It's to "White Christmas." What have I let myself in for?
First rehearsal is this Saturday after class. Eeeek.
Speaking of skating, today's practice was great. I did a for realsies hockey stop! I actually felt myself stopping in part with my back foot! This has never happened before! Woo!
A teenaged girl came up to me as I was struggling with inside three turns and asked me to show her how to do one. I showed her the outside three turn...which she got the first time doing it. (Oh, for the fearlessness of youth!) This gave me the burst of competitiveness I needed to finally scratch out a few decent inside threes going clockwise. Counterclockwise still appears to be a lost cause for now.
Other achievements: C-cut-type backwards crossovers where I remembered to keep my weight on my back leg and thus generated two pushes on each crossover instead of one, and something that looked closer to a spiral than I've ever gotten before. We're still talking, like, 45 degree angle here rather than the ultimate goal of 90, but it's better than 20-something!
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In other news, I've made it through almost half of the collected podcasts of The Thrilling Adventure Hour. A combination of my commute; a large, mindless task at work only I have the proper computer permissions to do and which must be done, and which is perfect for doing while listening to a radio play; and let's be honest, skipping everything related to Tales from the Black Lagoon, Jefferson Reid, Colonel Tick-Tock, and Captain Laserbeam* have made this possible in the last week.
I'm surprised there's not scads of fanfic for Sparks Nevada. It has some fun worldbuilding, many reoccurring characters, plenty of potential ships with members of all genders, and NATHAN FILLION as a minor character. Fandom, where are you?
(Maybe you're all off writing the delightfully drunk adventures of those married mediums, Frank and Sadie Doyle. This would be acceptable.)
Pezzers, you should totally listen to this if you haven't already, because it is awesome.
* I want to like Captain Laserbeam, but the Adventureketeers annoy the crap out of me.
First rehearsal is this Saturday after class. Eeeek.
Speaking of skating, today's practice was great. I did a for realsies hockey stop! I actually felt myself stopping in part with my back foot! This has never happened before! Woo!
A teenaged girl came up to me as I was struggling with inside three turns and asked me to show her how to do one. I showed her the outside three turn...which she got the first time doing it. (Oh, for the fearlessness of youth!) This gave me the burst of competitiveness I needed to finally scratch out a few decent inside threes going clockwise. Counterclockwise still appears to be a lost cause for now.
Other achievements: C-cut-type backwards crossovers where I remembered to keep my weight on my back leg and thus generated two pushes on each crossover instead of one, and something that looked closer to a spiral than I've ever gotten before. We're still talking, like, 45 degree angle here rather than the ultimate goal of 90, but it's better than 20-something!
*
In other news, I've made it through almost half of the collected podcasts of The Thrilling Adventure Hour. A combination of my commute; a large, mindless task at work only I have the proper computer permissions to do and which must be done, and which is perfect for doing while listening to a radio play; and let's be honest, skipping everything related to Tales from the Black Lagoon, Jefferson Reid, Colonel Tick-Tock, and Captain Laserbeam* have made this possible in the last week.
I'm surprised there's not scads of fanfic for Sparks Nevada. It has some fun worldbuilding, many reoccurring characters, plenty of potential ships with members of all genders, and NATHAN FILLION as a minor character. Fandom, where are you?
(Maybe you're all off writing the delightfully drunk adventures of those married mediums, Frank and Sadie Doyle. This would be acceptable.)
Pezzers, you should totally listen to this if you haven't already, because it is awesome.
* I want to like Captain Laserbeam, but the Adventureketeers annoy the crap out of me.
