Rose tints my world

You're the University of Ghana!

With a surprisingly long and storied heritage in your past,
you are more impressive than many would think to give you credit for. At
the same time, it does sound like you spent a lot of time playing with
legos. Now you're hoping to help provide opportunities for those who
haven't traditionally had access to resources. Though this is noble, you
have done much to shun the concept of nobility in your past. You're one
of those people who doesn't really pronounce the letter H.


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at the Blue Pyramid.

You're Tennessee!

A vibrantly musical individual, you probably know how to play multiple
instruments. At the heart of your love for music is the guitar, though you have a soft
spot for violins, which you refuse to call anything but fiddles. Fiddlesticks aside,
you are very thin and have excellent posture. If you ever run for elected office, you
won't even be able to get your hometown to support you. I guess that's why they call it
the blues.


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Current Mood: nodanceworksious
Current Music: Scatman

I miss Dance Works so much. Tori's studio is okay and everything--they're not awful, but I just miss Barry and Patrick and Susan and Emily and Lane and Rachel and Kimberly and Tiye and Ashlee and everyone so much. The kids at this new place are pretty cool, and so are most of the teachers, I guess. I'm pretty super mad right now at Miss Bethany or the superioity-complexed Tap Diva, as she seems so far to me. I hate to jump to conclusions, but she did it to me tonight, so I will. Story= I was talking to her because her class is tomorrow night and I won't be here b/c of Thespian Conference. I go up to her and tell her that, and I'm talking about other things, trying to make conversation. Plus, Tori's over trying to remember the names of various tap steps in the corner, so I say something along the lines of "I like Tobey Breaks, do you do those?" And the infinitely wise in all tap matters Bethany replies "Um, I think that your old teachers just made up steps and called them things, because I've been tapping for a long time, and I've never heard of that."

What the hell

That's only like the rudest thing ever

Except really not

But still.......... you don't really say that. Dance Works was my home--I danced there for about 13 years, and before that I was still there as a toddler waiting for Stephanie in the lobby. It IS my home, and you don't just go insulting it like that because YOU haven't heard of a step. Barry was in the original run of A Chorus Line while you were a sperm and egg. Don't you tell me he doesn't know how to tap, or that you are a better tapper than him. Barry is an amazing tapper. And what are you doing teaching tap at 25 or whatever? If you were as good or knowledgeable as you think that you are, wouldn't you be in 42nd Street or something? Oh wait---my sister was in 42nd Street, without learning whatever an "Al Gilbert time step" is. And Lyn Cramer, your master teacher, apparently told your studio owner that Steph is an amazing tapper. She came to Lyn after training for about 13 years with Barry. Apparently he was good enough for her. So, oh so knowledgeable guru of all things tap, stop thinking that you're the only tap teacher in Georgia that's been to New York. Barry knows tap, even if it's old school. Don't insult my home.

I miss it so much.

I was a lot happier with North Georgia before that little thing. I was looking forward to tap, because Tiffany had said Bethany was really good. Now, definitely not so much.

I just miss it so much. Everything's dffdasfdasfdsjakflj. Why did they have to close in the middle of this year?

We never even got to say goodbye.

PS I just read Bethany's bio on the website, and the like most highlighted feature is that she's taken tap with Al Gilbert.

You could take tap with Gene Kelly for all I care, but you still wouldn't impress me a bit. Oh, but maybe Gene Kelly's too old for you to have heard of. My bad.Or maybe Barry just made him up too.

I don't really mean all of this, I'm just sad. And I definitely know that I'm blowing it all way out of proportion. I'll be over it by the next time I'm there.

I'm just so sad without ADW.

My dance studio is closing. After 28 years of operating, the Atlanta Dance Works is going out of business effective immediately. It's .... so crazy. And so unexpected. Patrick had started choreographing for recital and everything. So... yeah. No one saw this coming. I talked to Emily, Lane and Tierney today and no one had any idea becuase I was the first to check my mail. And Tierney, Emily, and I are teachers. So... it's crazy. I just can't deal with Dance Works being gone because it's always been there. I mean, even when I was tired or grumpy on in an undancy mood, dance was there and it was just this solid, unchanging thing. Or rather this solid thing that was going downhill. We all saw this coming, just not immediately. After recital this year, or after recital next year.

...

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I guess I'll check this place out on Monday: http://www.dancemusicfactory.com/newpage05.html

Any normal person as stressed out as I've been lately would use the rest of this year to take a break from dance and calm down. But I just don't think that I can. Dance is sort of de-stressing because I can just go and think about dance and not Model UN or Beta Club or research papers or scholarship applications or anything else school related and crappy. It's nice.

In other news, I think that Jane's suprise party tonight went fabulously and I hope that she had an amazing time. I'm so glad that we threw this for her, because I think that she liked it a lot, and I'm glad that it was tonight so I could have a fun time and not think about other things. I also had the interview for my Latvia scholarship today, so... cross fingers. i think I did pretty well; my person was very friendly and talkative. I would really really like to go, but I might not find out for a while whether or not I am able to.

Pictures of:

THE LAST ADW PERFORMANCE EVER (aka our little 3 minute piece put together in 3 rehearsals that we did with the Dakalb Symphony)

LATIN CLASS, LUNCH, AND DANCE FROM FRIDAY

JANE'S SUPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY

plus many more

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