I want to do this

Someday I will have a postmodern dance party. Phillip Glass and Sufjan Stevens will be represented.

babysitting

I babysat two lovely girls tonight. Unfortunately the timing of the evening limited me to only 30 minutes of awake time with them. Right before the bed time stories I said "Once I start the story it's going to be time to rest your bodies, so if you want to jump up and down and get all of your energy out, this is your last chance. Do you need to jump up and down?" I thought this was a great idea. Megan looked at me and said "No. It's not good to do a lot of moving around after we brush our teeth, because we have to wind down". She's five. And very sensible.

I want to jump up and down, and writhe, and sway, and rumble. Now that I spend a significant portion of me week behaving in this manner I want to do it all the time.  My composition is changing. Things seem to always be at the surface. Bubbling. Restlessness, joy, anxiety, whatever, it's right there. The nice thing is that they pass quickly. Like sneezes--big events that come and go.

presence

Right now I am in my comfy sweats sitting on an ikea loveseat in my bedroom. But I am also taking the photo to the left...at the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. At any moment I am everywhere I've ever been and where I am now.

I've been thinking about time lately. I'm not omnipresent like my maker, but I think as humans we aren't as bound to time as we think. In the literal sense yes--I'm not planning on time traveling any time soon*, but I'm learning that memory is truly amazing. There is such a thing as living in the past. No one wants to do that, or to be known that way. I'm thinking of something different, because it's just as dangerous to cut yourself off completely from the past too right? I think there is a way of being present, in the current reality, and also being open to the possibility of anything that happened previously.

I'm not sure if any of that makes sense. Alas, the metaphysical muse has left me.

*A note on time travel. If you ever do have the opportunity, don't take it. Every science fiction movie I've ever seen tells me that nothing positive come from moving unnaturally along the time space continuum. Why is it that people always think they can rearrange the past to impact the future? Did you see the movie Frequency? It's not supposed to be a scary movie, but it freaked me out. Aside from the creepy music, the son talking to his dead father 30 years in the past through the broken radio was terrifying! Makes me anxious just thinking about it...

these days...

I am no longer in croatia. I've been back in South LA for a month now. What has been going on in my life since then you ask? SO MUCH! For example...I've moved into a new apartment, started grad school, purchased a road bike with a mirror and a basket and a bell, and done many other exciting things. Okay, not really anything else, but the bike is pretty awesome :)

Here are some highlights of my life as as student

-I spend 8 hours a day with 8 fabulous fellow thespians.

-I'm required to wear comfy clothes for all of my classes.

-There are a lot of movement based classes, which are very athletic. To the untrained eye our classes look like crazy people rolling around on the floor. It's actually much more sophisticated than that, but if I explained why I'd have to kill you.

-I get to check out books from the library for the entire semester.