le weekend

[alonewiththemoon]

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.

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Ooh!
Hrm...who was it? (not full names, necessarily, but hints, maybe?)
Probably, if M knew them, they're people I liked, not people I just tolerated.

[alonewiththemoon]

One of them you ran into not that long ago at a Sharper Image that was going out of business--it was that general crowd. The party was at Dave and Kerry's, of Gein and the Graverobbers.

Ha ! :)

[sanguineempathy.livejournal.com]

That gator is awesome :)

[bluemoonsaga.livejournal.com]

are we going to get ferrets in the gator pix? edited; i just went & looked at the ferret clothing section; omigawd. i don't know if i thought it was cute or mean??!!

[alonewiththemoon]

Yes to pics! People go way crazy with the ferret clothing. Ferrets aren't too crazy about it, so it seems a little on the mean side to me. It doesn't hurt them, but if they don't like it, why make them put up with it?

That said, I do have little pairs of bat wings for my ferrets ;-)

[bluemoonsaga.livejournal.com]

the hats are amazing??!!

[nepenthedreams]

Oh, and you're going to totally love the section of the Randa DVD where she starts talking about samba...

[alonewiththemoon]

Yay!

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Nice!