I wanna be Fifi
Jan. 16th, 2008 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonDecided against the computer in my last entry, after some careful comparison shopping. I did not realize that even if a drive has DVD in its name, it might not be a burner, just a player (thanks silentq for the heads-up there!). I might go with a new Dell. The question then is do I throw it on the existing credit card and increase my monthly payments or get a Dell card with an interest free payment period. I don't really want to have more credit cards but that is probably the more financially sound way to do it. Software I can get at educational pricing at the university where I work.
Talked to the PT yesterday about the pain I was in all last week and he agreed that he'd had me do too many calf raises of various sorts. Nice to know it wasn't just that I'm weak, it really was too much. I never complain about exercises hurting because I figure it's supposed to hurt, but probably I should rethink that a bit. Anyway, I managed to get through dance class without a repeat of last week's agony, so that was good. I spent more time flat-footed than I usually would. Instead of thinking about how wierd it felt, I tried to think of it as working on different technique and that helped somewhat. Anyway despite the flat footedness of the night, class was chock full of good stuff. We did some baladi taqsim stuff towards the end that was just honey sweet.
Dance plans: I really want to be baladi girl this spring. I know I already dance to a lot of baladi but I want to refine it and make it better. I even have a white (yes, white!) galabeya on the way, just like Fifi's. I have a ten minute show in March where I've been asked to do a zar--I'm certainly *not* going to do zar for ten minutes straight, but I think it will be a great opportunity to put together a little folkloric baladi suite. I'm thinking maybe something heavy on the mizmars for cane, a lighter taqsim with a trailing sort of ending and then the zar. I'll have to see what makes sense. (Side note: Za-Beth announced the details of the Morocco/Tarik workshop yesterday, Tarik is teaching shaabi! Happiness! I've already sent in my check :)
Funny, I quit the Middle East, but with the exception of February, I still have two shows a month from now until May. I've just revamped my website with some real information, including "hey I'm available for parties," so we'll see if anything comes of that once I've listed myself with the search engines, link exchanges, etc. I need to do some more work on the website over the next couple of days so I'm not providing a link at the moment, besides which it's going to move to a real URL once I register a domain name. Also eventually it will be prettier, graphic design not being my forté. But it feels like a lot of progress to have done even what I did.
Hair appointment tonight at a new salon. Nervous/excited!
Talked to the PT yesterday about the pain I was in all last week and he agreed that he'd had me do too many calf raises of various sorts. Nice to know it wasn't just that I'm weak, it really was too much. I never complain about exercises hurting because I figure it's supposed to hurt, but probably I should rethink that a bit. Anyway, I managed to get through dance class without a repeat of last week's agony, so that was good. I spent more time flat-footed than I usually would. Instead of thinking about how wierd it felt, I tried to think of it as working on different technique and that helped somewhat. Anyway despite the flat footedness of the night, class was chock full of good stuff. We did some baladi taqsim stuff towards the end that was just honey sweet.
Dance plans: I really want to be baladi girl this spring. I know I already dance to a lot of baladi but I want to refine it and make it better. I even have a white (yes, white!) galabeya on the way, just like Fifi's. I have a ten minute show in March where I've been asked to do a zar--I'm certainly *not* going to do zar for ten minutes straight, but I think it will be a great opportunity to put together a little folkloric baladi suite. I'm thinking maybe something heavy on the mizmars for cane, a lighter taqsim with a trailing sort of ending and then the zar. I'll have to see what makes sense. (Side note: Za-Beth announced the details of the Morocco/Tarik workshop yesterday, Tarik is teaching shaabi! Happiness! I've already sent in my check :)
Funny, I quit the Middle East, but with the exception of February, I still have two shows a month from now until May. I've just revamped my website with some real information, including "hey I'm available for parties," so we'll see if anything comes of that once I've listed myself with the search engines, link exchanges, etc. I need to do some more work on the website over the next couple of days so I'm not providing a link at the moment, besides which it's going to move to a real URL once I register a domain name. Also eventually it will be prettier, graphic design not being my forté. But it feels like a lot of progress to have done even what I did.
Hair appointment tonight at a new salon. Nervous/excited!
