I should be working
Right now I should be either studying for a midterm that I have on Monday for a teacher that is known to try to trick you, revising a paper that is due Tuesday, finish writing a paper that is due a week Monday or choreographing 18 more routines, but I am not doing any of those things. In fact, what I am doing, I am rather skilled at – procrastination. Since returning home from work this evening, I have chatted on MSN with people around North America, eaten supper, taken my saxophone out and played some tunes after not playing it for at least 3 years, fed the cats, eaten more food, played with the cats and did a small bit of studying for my midterm. As for the rest of my evening, I am considering watching a movie or playing my sax a bit more. I know I should be doing work and I probably will force myself to do more work before I sleep but I have 5 days of class left and my brain has already left on vacation.
So I was sitting in the hall studying for a lab quiz today and happened to glance over and the people’s books beside me that they were studying out of. Of the two people that I saw, both of them had completely highlighted every word in every paragraph. Why on earth do people do that? What good does that really do? Is the purpose of highlighting to emphasize the key points of the paragraph so at a glance you can see what is important? I just do not understand the benefit of highlighting every single word in all or most paragraphs. Hmmm….
Ahh, I’ve got it! They must have an aversion to reading black letters on white paper so they decided to make it a little more visually pleasing by changing the background!! That must be it! At times I have also gotten bored of reading black letters on white paper but my brain must not be intelligent enough to have thought to just simply change the colour of the background! Genius!
So the other day I discovered a new pet peeve of mine: floor routines with no dancing. I am busy choreographing the floor routines for my 13 girls and am really starting to lack ideas for the last few. My co-worker suggested that I go to youtube.com and look up old Olympic routines to get some ideas. I did that and as I was watching a couple of them, I was aghast at how little dancing they actually contained! Are not floor routines supposed to contain dance rather than chasé pose, chasé pose, walk walk pose. Then when I was at work that evening, I was noticing some of the other floor routines and again was not impressed with the lack of dancing and too many skills. Sure skills are nice to look at but they are also places were the judges can take easy deductions if not done perfectly. Ok so maybe I’m also a little biased because I am a dancer, have always been a dancer and gymnastics and dance have always gone hand in hand for me. Every floor routine I had was always very dancy. I realize that not all gymnasts can dance (Believe me some of them have 2 left feet!!! That is why all gymnasts should be required to take dance classes, please!! - for the sake of easier choreography for me and a more pleasant viewing experience if they ever end up on youtube.com and I am looking for ideas) but in my opinion, floor should involve dancing on top of the skills required. And that is my beef.
God is really awesome. I am so thankful that He is in control and not me! I am so human – I make so many mistakes! I am just lucky that I have the capability to learn from my mistakes (I say capability because sometimes I don’t fix those mistakes right away even though I know I should) and that if I trust in Him and obey His commands, His Will will be done. You can’t go wrong with the Creator of the Universe in the driver’s seat.
So I was sitting in the hall studying for a lab quiz today and happened to glance over and the people’s books beside me that they were studying out of. Of the two people that I saw, both of them had completely highlighted every word in every paragraph. Why on earth do people do that? What good does that really do? Is the purpose of highlighting to emphasize the key points of the paragraph so at a glance you can see what is important? I just do not understand the benefit of highlighting every single word in all or most paragraphs. Hmmm….
Ahh, I’ve got it! They must have an aversion to reading black letters on white paper so they decided to make it a little more visually pleasing by changing the background!! That must be it! At times I have also gotten bored of reading black letters on white paper but my brain must not be intelligent enough to have thought to just simply change the colour of the background! Genius!
So the other day I discovered a new pet peeve of mine: floor routines with no dancing. I am busy choreographing the floor routines for my 13 girls and am really starting to lack ideas for the last few. My co-worker suggested that I go to youtube.com and look up old Olympic routines to get some ideas. I did that and as I was watching a couple of them, I was aghast at how little dancing they actually contained! Are not floor routines supposed to contain dance rather than chasé pose, chasé pose, walk walk pose. Then when I was at work that evening, I was noticing some of the other floor routines and again was not impressed with the lack of dancing and too many skills. Sure skills are nice to look at but they are also places were the judges can take easy deductions if not done perfectly. Ok so maybe I’m also a little biased because I am a dancer, have always been a dancer and gymnastics and dance have always gone hand in hand for me. Every floor routine I had was always very dancy. I realize that not all gymnasts can dance (Believe me some of them have 2 left feet!!! That is why all gymnasts should be required to take dance classes, please!! - for the sake of easier choreography for me and a more pleasant viewing experience if they ever end up on youtube.com and I am looking for ideas) but in my opinion, floor should involve dancing on top of the skills required. And that is my beef.
God is really awesome. I am so thankful that He is in control and not me! I am so human – I make so many mistakes! I am just lucky that I have the capability to learn from my mistakes (I say capability because sometimes I don’t fix those mistakes right away even though I know I should) and that if I trust in Him and obey His commands, His Will will be done. You can’t go wrong with the Creator of the Universe in the driver’s seat.
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