shanmonster | Upside down--boy you turn me

My day is up and down like a trollop's breeches.

I suppose it's because of a sneak attack of womanhood. My hormones are freaking out on me, and everything's setting me off this evening. Today is casual day, so I wore my cycling shorts and a company tshirt to work, only to find out my shorts aren't regulation casual, despite being an appropriate length. Apparently, cycling shorts are too casual to be casual.

I guess I really do have to start carrying a wardrobe around with me. Sigh...

And then I found out that my that my request for time off for the Evolve gig was turned down. I've been turned down for every week-long vacation request I've made. This makes three lost performance/training opportunities, and it's really wearing on me.

But then, one of my supervisors came around raising money for the cancer society with the usual 50/50 draw. I bought a few tickets, and much to my happiness, won! So now I'm about $40 richer. Woohoo! I went and put it in my savings account, where I've been putting my spare money since I started this job. I've got a whole $150 saved up. Not much, but it should finance a few instructional DVDs or a dance workshop down the road (a workshop I will undoubtably not be able to get the time to attend!).

On my breaks, I've been working on modifying a few dance combinations. I still haven't tried them to music, but I think I have something interesting worked out.

I feel a bit weird plotting out dance this way. I much prefer to let the music guide my movement, rather than to fit pre-manufactured movements to music. Still, it's an exercise in mini-choreography that my brain can probably use. I tried adding poi to the combination today, but that is very tricky. VERY tricky. The combination involves a lot of quick directional changes, and I'd have to experiment to see what I could do which wouldn't look awful and/or thwack me in the skull.

So what is all this dance practice, education, and drilling doing for me? I don't get opportunities to perform. I guess I just have to content myself with knowing that if I could get the opportunity to dance at a good venue, that I'd wow the socks off my audience.

It's a pretty meagre reward.