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This morning when I got up I dragged my sorry tired carcass to the living room and did the 15 minute version of Rachel Brice's yoga and isolation drills, despite creaking joints and overall protest.  When I was done, I felt longer, lighter and infinitely more awake.  Sun salutations make you feel good in the morning, who'da thunk it?  I can't get my palms flat on the floor when bent at the hips yet, but I'm already closer than I was, so I'm sure I'll get there.  And for the first time since I got this DVD, I was able to hold the locust pose for as long as Ms. Brice.  Yay for progress in flexibility!

Last night in Amira Jamal's class we did more work on drum solos.  It was very productive.  One exercise we did was to do a shimmy-less drum solo, to serve as a reminder of all the things you can do that aren't shimmying during a drum solo.  That's something I'll have to do at home once in a while.  In the second half of the class, we took turns doing individual solos for critiquing and feedback.  Amira Jamal chose the music pretty much at random.  I started my piece, and quickly realized that I had no idea what the music was doing.  So I stopped and admitted that I had no idea what the music was doing.  Once I wouldn't have been able to do that; I'm glad I am more comfortable at admitting that I don't know what I'm doing.  I think the difference is that now I have faith that I'll get it once it's explained to me, that not knowing something isn't the same as being bad at it.  Anyway, Amira Jamal wasn't totally sure what rhythm it was either, but we listened to a few more bars and I was able to grab onto the basic pattern, which sounded rather like a samba, oddly enough.  I did some research when I got home and it turns out it was a karatchi, which makes sense as that rhythm is an Arabicized version of a Latin American rhythm made popular in Lebanon in the 1960s (or at least so Nourhan Sharif's Lebanese rhythms cd tells me).  Finding out it was Lebanese made me happy, because while doing the solo, I found myself doing a lot of those Lebanese-style shoulder shimmies with big front-back weight shifts.  Yay for progress in intuitively understanding Arabic music!

Tonight I don't have Seyyide's class, as she is out of town.  I'm still a little under the weather, so I don't mind taking things a little easy this week.  Thursday night I have to get started on my next performance pieces though:  Taht il-Shubbak for the Morocco hafli (GULP!  Performing in front of Morocco!!!) and a Macedonian goth-techno-industrial band's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, complete with ouds and bagpipes, for the next time I perform at the Kabarett.  I am not making that up.  It rocks my world. 

i'm going 2 whup asses!

I feel so annoyed! I went to gaming group with folks Friday but the game master is totally playing the NPCs to his own liking. I'm never gaming with them again!

sanguineempathy told me that shnells told mvoid that they saw me backstabbing anechoic. That's bullshit!

I feel so upset! it's so not fair that I have Sunday off but nobody wants to do anything :-(. I'll just sit home alone and wish I was dead.

developer told me that _perihelion_ told heatray and spitcurl that they saw me talking to ayun and talking crap about vicissitude. That is SO not true! If I get my hands on them I'm going 2 whup asses!

Hey and know what? that bitter old queen shnells gone and said that they saw me talking to fishiethegecko and backstabbing silentq. Don't let me hear about that again or there's paybacks!

I feel like I'm so suicidal! that jerk sythyry gone and said that they saw me dissing on c_i. If I get my hands on them there's paybacks!

Oh yeah. I am so going to kick eeyrg out of the house. They got totally drunk the other day and puked all over rojagato!

And also Thursday at school sucked.

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