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.