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[hathycol]

Humph. Am less depressed today, despite the looming dance practice. I HATE HALF TERM REHERSALS. They're always really dull, you're bored out of your skull, and a little voice says "Why? Why are you doing this, it's your time off?"

Of course, then I hit the voice since I know it'll help make a better show, but... yawn, it's dull.

(Yes, I'm more cheerful today, and due to the joy that is hormones, I shall remain so until a similiar time next month. Nuff' said)

Have sat down and made A List about what I plan to do after the GCSEs. This was as an escape to revision, actually.



1. Sort out my video pile, and put labels on each video so I know what's on it.
2. Re-watch every single episode of Stargate ever made, including the movie, so as to be ready for Season 6.
3. Re-watch every single Star Wars movie.
4. Watch the extras on all my DVDs.
5. Read Dune all the way through.
6. Re-read The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales
7. Learn to cook three new meals.
8. Finish Between Worlds and Codename: Justice and begin working on the sequel to Between Worlds since it is the beginning of a series. Yay me. (I've got the whole series planned, it's finding the time to sit down and write it)
9. Start a Camp Blanket.
10. DO NOT BECOME ADDICTED TO BIG BROTHER This is important.
11. Sort out website. And RPG.
12. Actually watch Reloaded
13. Do dance show WELL and exercise twice a week to stay healthy for college
14. Buy new clothes


OOOOH! I did 14 points! Just like Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War One, which the Germans originally turned down in January, so the Allies did not use them to the extent Wilson wanted for the Treaty of Versailles!

I am SO gonna pass history. Yaaaay!

Anyway, enough of my disjointed reamblings. Namarie! ~Hathy_Col~

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[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I used to loath half term rehearsals too. The teachers used to get nasty, and I was always picked on. We used to have them during the February half term, because the dreaded Crosby festival was at Easter and we needed to practice using space. Eh, they were scary.

What sort of dancing do you do? The more I read about you, the more I find we have in common...

Oh, and I have loads of things that I plan to do over the summer. I bet most of mine don't get done...

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[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

You dance?

*squee*

What sort of dancing do you do? The more I read about you, the more I find we have in common...

Yeah, I'm noticing that!

I used to be a strictly ballet girl, but then, about three years ago, I started doing modern, tap and jazz, found I liked it better, and dropped ballet. Anyway, can no longer do jazz, since may have possibly broken jazz spped record- ISTD Bronze, Silver and Gold all in a year after starting. Yay me! But I still do tap and modern, and when I go to college next year, I'll actually be doing ballet and contempory.

And there is the history of my dancing. Half term rehersals PARTICULARY suck when you realise that it's six weeks to he BIG, only-once-every-three-year show, and you don't know ANY of the stuff yet...

Anyway. What type of dancing do you do?

[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I dance. Well, past tense, I did dance. From when I was three, to last year, when I gave it up.
I was a serial dancer - by the end it was seven lessons a week, more before shows.
I went to the Hilton Bromley School, which is the only decent school in Merseyside, I think. My lessons changed over the years, but generally I did two ballet lessons a week (one IDTA and one RAD), one gym lesson (I sucked at gym, truly sucked) one private lesson, one Greek lesson (I liked Greek - floaty skirts and bare feet!) one Theatrecraft lesson (included modern, jazz, tap, whatever) and a student lesson, which was when we did the groups and troupes for shows. Have you ever done the Crosby festival, at Easter? I did solos a few times, and hated them, but I like the group dances.
I really liked ballet, for years, and was Intermediate (I think) in IDTA, after taking all six grades, and also Intermediate in RAD but I never actually took the exam for RAD exams, I was too old. I still love ballet, but it was hard and I was never any real good at it. I just liked the feeling...
I was hopeless at anything modern, my body just doesn't work that way, and in later years tap became one big mystery to me. I was looking at that step, in your meme, and it brought back how much I hated pick-ups, especially on one leg... Ugh, give me time-steps any day!

Our school was always very strict, which was probably just as well because that discipline has stayed with me. I am still involved with theatre, and our drama teacher has put me to work choreographing all the dances for next year's production (arghhh!! Can't-remember-dance-steps!) so I don't feel as though I have really dropped dancing forever. I will always love it (awww) and still have a quiet bounce around when no one's looking...

Phew, that was long. Am glad to have finally met someone who knows what I'm talking about!

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[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I went to the Hilton Bromley School, which is the only decent school in Merseyside, I think.

Heard of them- probably from the Dance Congress in Manchester earlier this year.

I had a horrible image of you being a Loretta Legg's girl and then I would have had to kill you...

My school, Pimbeley-Johnson ain't too bad. We don;t even have a dnace hall, we don't offer all that much, but everyone knows everyone and we're good at what we do.

Have you ever done the Crosby festival, at Easter? I did solos a few times, and hated them, but I like the group dances.

Nope- never. We tend to do displays and shows, and thats our lot.

I still love ballet, but it was hard and I was never any real good at it. I just liked the feeling...

Ballet I still like, and I was okay at it... something just needed to be dropped, and it had to be ballet! Doing it in college, though, should be fun.

I was hopeless at anything modern, my body just doesn't work that way, and in later years tap became one big mystery to me.

I don't get tap. Never have, and never will. Don't see the point, or anything. But... if you do modern in our school, you have to do tap as part of the package. Sigh.

I like modern, and I love jazz. I just adore the feeling of getting up and doing your thing and making shapes. I think I just like the fact it's quite funky but still classical dance in a sense... I'm not particulary good at it, but if I'm really into it, I'm very energetic.

That was unusually poetic.

I was looking at that step, in your meme, and it brought back

[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Loretta Legg? Never heard of her, and from the sound of it I don't want to! I don't think I am like her, so please don't kill me! *cowers*
Seriously, I was crap at dancing, really. I just liked it, and once you get involved it's hard to get out, unless you pull yourself right out, like I did.

I understand how you feel about Jazz, it is very poetic. That's what I miss about dancing, really. And being on stage. That is the greatest buzz you can have by yourself (!) and I will always miss the shows. Still, reading about your experiences as brought back some of the less savory memories, and I don't think I could have carried on with all the lessons as well as take GCSEs. Well done you for doing so!

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[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Loretta Legg's was a school, and they considered themselves the art of perfection, ecause they only let people in my audition. They were always pretty elitist and looked down on other schools- and since we were the nearest, us! It got vicious at Dance Congress type stuff.

Ah, the bitch-fest that is the rivalrybetween the two schools....