key to the highway
May. 6th, 2009 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonI filled out my Zipcar application, yay! Thanks everyone for the glowing Zipcar references, you made the decision a lot easier. Oh! While I was typing that last sentence, I received my approval notification email! So I could potentially be behind the wheel of any zipcar you encounter out there on the road. Be warned!
Only three of us showed up for Najmat's class last night and all of us, including Najmat, were low energy and dragging, so class was cancelled on account of lack of motivation. Hung out talking for a while, then went home and finally did some of Ranya Renee's baladi drills, which actually were rather a lot like being in class with Najmat! Very very similar style and movement vocabulary and interpretation. I just did the Baladi 1 set, about an hour and fifteen minutes. I was pretty much able to keep up with everything, and where I couldn't, I made up my own stuff as Ranya suggests you do. I was pleased to realize that my natural inclination with baladi music was very close to what Ranya was doing, to the point where sometimes I could anticipate what she was going to do next. So I think when she told me she liked what she saw of my performance at her workshop show, she wasn't just being nice, I really was doing the right things. (why do we always doubt praise from people? where's our inner Stuart Smiley when we need him?) Anyway, awesomeness all around and it made up for missing class. I'll be doing an upbeat baladi piece, not a taqsim but just a nice sassy song (the descriptively titled "Medley" from Nahawnd, the Rakset Kitty CD), at Hips for Hope on May 17, so this was good practice.
Annoyed Sissy last night by emtpying out all her toy stashes and leaving her toys out in the middle of the floor, so she had to put them all away again. I am so mean! :-)
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Only three of us showed up for Najmat's class last night and all of us, including Najmat, were low energy and dragging, so class was cancelled on account of lack of motivation. Hung out talking for a while, then went home and finally did some of Ranya Renee's baladi drills, which actually were rather a lot like being in class with Najmat! Very very similar style and movement vocabulary and interpretation. I just did the Baladi 1 set, about an hour and fifteen minutes. I was pretty much able to keep up with everything, and where I couldn't, I made up my own stuff as Ranya suggests you do. I was pleased to realize that my natural inclination with baladi music was very close to what Ranya was doing, to the point where sometimes I could anticipate what she was going to do next. So I think when she told me she liked what she saw of my performance at her workshop show, she wasn't just being nice, I really was doing the right things. (why do we always doubt praise from people? where's our inner Stuart Smiley when we need him?) Anyway, awesomeness all around and it made up for missing class. I'll be doing an upbeat baladi piece, not a taqsim but just a nice sassy song (the descriptively titled "Medley" from Nahawnd, the Rakset Kitty CD), at Hips for Hope on May 17, so this was good practice.
Annoyed Sissy last night by emtpying out all her toy stashes and leaving her toys out in the middle of the floor, so she had to put them all away again. I am so mean! :-)
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