This is just some photo editing I did. :) 

What A Day

Sooo, guess what? I got asked today to fill in for a friend in my old dance piece..... and we perform tomorrow. But let me start at the beginning. At the end of the school year, I had been feeling worn out and tired, so I decided to take a break from dance and try something new, so I joined the L.P. X country team and started training this summer. I also auditioned for next year's musical at L.P. and made it in. So now I had a summer and first semester of school with no ballet, and lots of other things instead. I haven't been dancing for about a month, and then I come home from x country practice this morning, and today of all days, my dance teacher has called me up and asked if I would fill in a spot for one of my friends who had injured her knee. They found out about the injury that morning, and the performance is tomorrow at Timberline. Yikes. "Well," I thought, "I HAVE done this number before, and it would be kinda nice to see everyone at dance again... Okay, I'll do it."  Great. I showed up at two today and learned my part, and then tomorrow at 10 AM is spacing. We perform at 6:30 that evening. Well, I'd always heard stories about things like this happening from other performers, where they had to pick up a part the day before the show because the lead broke their ankle or something, but I never thought anything like this would happen to me. Well, it did. And I can add my story to the rest of them. Wish me luck. :)

To Blog, or Not to Blog

As my first post on my newly created blog page, I think it fitting that I talk about blogging in general. Why do people blog, and why has is become such a big thing?  Most of my friends have a blog, and/or follow blogs. I've only recently decided to get one. Up until now,  to me blogs seemed rather pointless, just someone ranting on the internet about something no one wants to hear, but on further inspection, maybe there are people that want to hear what someone's got to say. I heard my friends discuss what they've read on blogs, and I've read a few posts myself. It was kind of fun, actually, and I got to see other people's opinions, and see my friends' opinions on matters we've never really discussed. Maybe that's why people like to blog so much. Maybe there's an element of expression in blogging, kind of like a personal newspaper. You can discuss your personal opinion on the day's events, you can rant about the President or congress or your classes all you want, and it's o.k. because, guess what? In America we enjoy the First Amendment right of freedom of speech. I think that's why people like to blog so much. It's good exercise for your freedom of speech. It's a breath of fresh air to speak your mind, whether or not someone reads it. And if someone does read it, then hey, maybe it'll give them something to think about, or hopefully, influence them to do something good.