Who cares about meaningful blog entries anyway

Are you ready for a long and drawn-out story with nothing especially interesting about it? I sure hope so!

This past year, I took dance, taught by the talented Emily Olsen, for my rec credit. Not going to lie, I hated it at the beginning of the year; I was too terrible for words, and it was pretty much the bane of my existence. I couldn't follow anything, was generally uncoordinated, and could not for the life of me remember any of the steps to anything.

Fast forward to the middle of second semester, when we were a good way into the dance to Lady Gaga's Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, and I actually kind of enjoyed dance class. In my humble opinion, I had progressed a long way - I used to be unspeakably terrible, whereas now I was simply bad. Excellent.

By the end of the year, and especially in retrospect, I really enjoyed dancing! I was and am still very uncoordinated and generally bad at it, but it's a fun time and definitely something I'd like to do in the future, in college maybe I'd take dance-for-people-who-are-crap or something. It would be a fun time, I'm sure.

Switch to a different storyline; When I visited Danni in the idyllic and wonderful England earlier this summer, she gave me a super-awesome gift. It was a book she'd filled with interesting pictures, mostly about various fandoms. I love it to pieces and I am pretty sure it can cheer me up even when I am in the deepest pits of emo. One thing it had in it that I especially enjoyed was a page with two pictures of Gingivere, a character I'd made up back in ninth grade. Reminded of Gingi and in need of something to draw as practice for my independent study in 2D design (a nightmare that I will tell of later), I decided to do more drawing of her. Because I've been drawing her and her character is woefully underdeveloped, I thought it might be nice to give her a couple of hobbies. Figure skating and dance (ballet in particular) seemed good.

I've been doing research on both, and it makes me want to learn to do one or both of them~

I'm sure it's another strange phase, but that's fine. Right now (inspired by Gingivere) I have been stretching so that I am not quite so inflexible. Woooooooooop.

Why all the Asian comments?

Some of my blog post inexplicably have about 30 comments of people posting inane quotes or long messages in some incomprehensible Asian language. It looks like it's probably Chinese, but I'm not really all that sure.

Does anybody (I'm looking at you, Allie) know if there's any way to filter the silly comments or anything, or why I'm getting them?

In other news, I wish that Blogger had a more intuitive setup, so that I would get notifications or something if people did comment on here, and so I could add other blogs easily, and generally get around in a more organized fashion. Oh well.

I should make a post on here about my various adventures/lack of doing anything this summer, so that I can look back and remember what I did/did not accomplish in Summer 2010. Sadly, right now I am far too lazy to make such a large post, so alas, that will be saved for another day. Today, at least, I got back from Maggie's house after seeing Inception yesterday and generally catching up with two old friends. Good times. Today I have also been drawing.

And obsessing over Sara Bareilles. I absolutely LOVE her new song and the video for it, King of Anything. I've watched it probably 15 times today, both because it's excellent and because she is very pretty.

Sometimes people find this place...

...And it can be an unfortunate time.

This blog is really not nearly as embarrassing as I remember (though it's still pretty embarrassing), but still, when people from real life find it, I worry. Even when people from the internet find it, I worry! It's a wonder I have this at all. Perhaps if I'm so worried about it I should just delete it?

But I won't. I've decided that it's really best to just update this more so that more embarrassing posts get buried. And if I'm too lazy to update it, then people will just see my silly posts from a year ago! That's fine.

I feel like it's cheating or something to delete posts or to delete the whole journal, like... tearing pages out of a sketchbook. It's insincere, or something. Not that this is such srs bznz that I or anyone else should worry too much about being sincere.

Speaking of srs bznz/the idealism train/etc, I think I am going to watch The West Wing after dinner. And speaking of The West Wing, I need to respond to Danni's PM.