le weekend

I bought this for the ferrets.  I could not help myself.

A very good, if action-packed, weekend.  Saturday I worked on a meleya leff DVD for some inspiration, and I was indeed inspired.  Then I watched the Arlington Million and went to a party out in Baldwinsville.  No Baldwins live there, but college friends of M's do.  tisana , they all say hi!  Several million hungry mosquitoes also live there, and despite my wearing long pants, my legs are pretty chewed up.  I guess the bugs couldn't bite through my hoodie's sleeves but they could bite through my pants.  But on the positive side, the plethora of mosquitoes and other bugs meant that we got a wonderful aerial show put on by daredevil bats at dusk.  So elegant and neat.

Sunday I put my meleya inspiration to work and made progress with my number for Jane Doe.  As always, I wish I had another week to prep it.  I think it will work out okay though.  The DVD did help.  The samba drum solo is also pulling together.  From a technical standpoint, it's challenging to switch between dancing to the underlying samba rhythm and dancing to the overarching Arabic rhythms, and deciding when one should take prominence over the other in my interpretation.  It definitely makes me appreciate Sayed Balaha's brilliance as a percussionist to have put it all together in the first place.  Sunday concluded with excellent food and great conversation, and later falling asleep on the couch to Project Runway.  None of the designers really stand out so far.

Last night I dreamed about bald eagles and three pet wolverines who were all named Seti.  The eagles were soft (as I know in real life they are) and they needed to be brought somewhere to be released.  Gingerly, I had decided to trust the wolverines in the house, and also around the eagles.  Insert interpretation about love and loss and daring to love again here.

When your body is crazy full of histimines, you really shouldn't eat things that you know will trigger the production of more, like, for example, peanut butter cups.  Even little ones.

happy happy seal dance

I have given myself this trainer for an afternoon program at the New England Aquarium for my birthday next month :-)  I'm super super excited.  I've wanted to do the pet the seals and give them fish program for a while, and decided as long as I was going to do it, I might as well do it all and say to heck with expense.  Basically you shadow a trainer for two hours, learning about their daily routine, and of course, you get to interact with seals!  I've been fascinated by seals since the time I spent in Alaska; they were so curious about us, swimming up to our Zodiac or sometimes even up to the shallows of beaches just to see what these odd upright creatures were doing.  You could talk to them, and they'd just tilt their heads quizzically and watch you all the more.  I think they are one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, maybe not so much on land but definitely in the water.  And they are on the same general evolutionary branch as ferrets, so of course I'm interested in them from that standpoint.  Maybe I'll get to spend a little time with the otters, too--seeing the other creatures at the Aquarium close up would be cool too.  But seals!!!  I get to hang out with seals!!!  :-))))))))))