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icepixiePretty sure I'm about to fast-forward through an entire year in the not!drawerfic. Big, bold "One Year Later" and everything, BSG-style. If I do that, I can get to something more conflicty that much sooner, and that big conflicty thing is the climax of the story, so I might actually, you know, finish it this calendar year! The only flaw in my plan is that I should really make that "one year later" the beginning of a new section, and the section before it isn't that long. So far I have 38 chapters that average 3k each, divided into three sections of 30-40k each and a fourth that's going to be 10k if I go with this plan. I guess that's not the end of the world, but it offends my taste for symmetry.
...Oh, who cares. There's almost nothing interesting about the year I'm going to skip. Off it goes!
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P started counting for me while I was doing my Waltz 8 in lesson today, and heeeey, what a dramatic improvement in my three turns! The rest of the figure was as crappy as ever, but the turns are much better. When I'm on the circle as opposed to just on a line where I can do whatever arc I want, I tend to fear and avoid the turn until the last possible second, so by that point I've over-prepared and can't hold the edge coming out of it. Doing it to a count meant I had to do it early-which-is-really-on-time, and so I could hold my edge coming out.
She also has me doing a spin exercise that actually gives me hope that someday I may actually be able to enter a spin on one foot. I was seriously questioning whether that would ever happen even just a couple weeks ago.
Finally, I wondered if it might be, and now I know: the exercise she gave me last Saturday to work mohawks is indeed the dreaded 5-Step Mohawk Sequence from Bronze MITF. Well, minus that slip thing at the end that I'm pretty sure would land me on my head right now. It's good to know it's not quite as scary as everyone I've ever heard talk about it makes it sound. Although that step forward after the back outside edge is something of a nail-biter, especially at a decent speed. I'm sure I flail very attractively every time I hit that point.
One of the other adult skaters had a bumper crop of blackberries this year, so she made jam and gave all the other adults a jar today. I've not had great experiences with blackberry jam in the past, but this is delicious. Tastes like summer!
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I've been going through a Dar Williams renaissance over the past week. I think most of what I had from her came from Kenster, so there's a whole bunch of stuff I'd missed since then or just never knew about, so I've been exploring tracks I'd missed. Some particularly nice new-to-me songs are "This Was Pompeii" and "Troubled Times."
I have a sneaking suspicion that "Are You Out There" may make its way into a China Beach vid once I see the rest of the series. Obviously the song is about something very different, but the themes of alienation, and connection through music, seem like they would work well with the source from what I've seen so far.
I also suspect the box set may be a (very) early Christmas present to myself, at least unless the library gets the last two seasons in tout de suite.
...Oh, who cares. There's almost nothing interesting about the year I'm going to skip. Off it goes!
*
P started counting for me while I was doing my Waltz 8 in lesson today, and heeeey, what a dramatic improvement in my three turns! The rest of the figure was as crappy as ever, but the turns are much better. When I'm on the circle as opposed to just on a line where I can do whatever arc I want, I tend to fear and avoid the turn until the last possible second, so by that point I've over-prepared and can't hold the edge coming out of it. Doing it to a count meant I had to do it early-which-is-really-on-time, and so I could hold my edge coming out.
She also has me doing a spin exercise that actually gives me hope that someday I may actually be able to enter a spin on one foot. I was seriously questioning whether that would ever happen even just a couple weeks ago.
Finally, I wondered if it might be, and now I know: the exercise she gave me last Saturday to work mohawks is indeed the dreaded 5-Step Mohawk Sequence from Bronze MITF. Well, minus that slip thing at the end that I'm pretty sure would land me on my head right now. It's good to know it's not quite as scary as everyone I've ever heard talk about it makes it sound. Although that step forward after the back outside edge is something of a nail-biter, especially at a decent speed. I'm sure I flail very attractively every time I hit that point.
One of the other adult skaters had a bumper crop of blackberries this year, so she made jam and gave all the other adults a jar today. I've not had great experiences with blackberry jam in the past, but this is delicious. Tastes like summer!
*
I've been going through a Dar Williams renaissance over the past week. I think most of what I had from her came from Kenster, so there's a whole bunch of stuff I'd missed since then or just never knew about, so I've been exploring tracks I'd missed. Some particularly nice new-to-me songs are "This Was Pompeii" and "Troubled Times."
I have a sneaking suspicion that "Are You Out There" may make its way into a China Beach vid once I see the rest of the series. Obviously the song is about something very different, but the themes of alienation, and connection through music, seem like they would work well with the source from what I've seen so far.
I also suspect the box set may be a (very) early Christmas present to myself, at least unless the library gets the last two seasons in tout de suite.
