subway shows.
in MP3, Performance, video
as bit, blog, capoeira, coming home, facebook, flippin, grocery, grocery shopping, home, little gem, phone, post, serendipity, subway, time, yoga
So, I was gonna tell you all about this.
But then someone who had gotten the whole thing on his phone friended me on facebook and threw it up on there (ew. threw it up. just thought I’d point that little gem out).
And if pictures are worth a thousand words, then I can only imagine what a video is worth. Maybe a whole flippin’ blog post, actually.
But, this is a bit of serendipity that happened on the subway, coming home from capoeira, yoga, and grocery shopping. It just proves that some pretty good moments lay buried among the mundane all the time. We just got to be open to them, is the thing.
shhhhh.
in Performance, Thoughts and Feelings
as Arrows, atmosphere, body, Cell, cell block tango, dancing, duckboots, face, hard time, Huh, kind, lighting purposes, parents, person, rehearsal, shhhhh, while, whole time, yoga
My parents’ million pound dog just stepped on my face and I don’t even care.
That’s how tired I am right now.
Today we started teching Chicago. It was fun. Partly because I didn’t have to wear my heels and instead could wear my rad duckboots (since we weren’t dancing full out), and partly because you sometimes get to shoot imaginary arrows at your friend and watch his body take the imaginary hit during tech rehearsal. All while we’re (mostly) in a freeze. For lighting purposes, you see.
“I enjoyed watching you try really really hard not to talk, Jessica,” my friends told me while we were teching Cell Block Tango. “It was hard,” I explained. “It’s just that I have so many interesting thoughts to share with you…”
“Oh, I know,” one friend said.
“And you’re just not the kind of person who can really not talk for long, huh?” another friend asked, not unkindly at all.
And then I thought about it.
“Okay, so it’s hard for me,” I admitted.”But, I do yoga and I don’t talk the whole time–sometimes for 90 whole minutes!”
“But yoga is like talking with your body.”
“Oh. Yeah, I guess, you’re right…”
So right. Tech rehearsal is supposed to be a library-like atmosphere. And it is. I mean, when I’m in the library, I whisper. I keep it quiet. But I sure do share my thoughts, still.
But I guess I kind of get why some of my friends immediately stared at me when the director announced yesterday that, “If you’re the kind of person who really has a hard time not talking, bring a book.”
Still, there are just so many interesting thoughts to share and questions to ask and jokes to make…And okay, okay. So maybe I should bring that book tomorrow.
when she told me what to do.
in Funny Stuff, I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as bolding, emotions, human nature, love, lungs, perceptions, sweatshirt, t shirt, Tiger, yoga
My therapist has a way of taking my LIFE! and making it look more like my life. Totally doable. I mean, like, you know–oh that. That’s just my life. It’s fine…or at least definitely on the way to fine. Usually she asks me questions and lets me figure out the answers. Usually we both kind [...]
some of my thoughts out loud.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as baking bread, dance class, dining room, drama, end result, everything, girlfriend, laughter, life, math, normalcy, paragraphs, percent, questions and answers, result, return to normalcy, show, situational, time, tv show, unpleasantness, yoga
I am thinking about yoga in the morning. I don’t love getting up for it, but I love how I feel at the end of it. There are probably a lot of situations in life similar to this. Situations in which the end result justifies the unpleasantness it took to get there. I am thinking [...]
yoga.
in Funny Stuff
as ability, anything, Auto, cannot, class, Draft, ebay, elbows, fact, fifty, judgement, kind, knees, leg, levers, man, mollification, pose, right, room, something, spandex, spandex pants, strength, teacher, terminology, tonight, tw, yoga, yoga class
I took a yoga class tonight and the teacher mentioned to me that I have “long levers.” She mentioned this twice. I thought that was kind of funny terminology and wanted to laugh. I probably would have if a). that would not have been considered rude, b). it did not feel like one hundred and [...]
finally, I did it.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as class, degree heat, drew, dry as a bone, Heck, hot yoga, newark shopping center, sweating, theater, thick air, time, today, yoga
I completely surprised myself today. I mean, really, I did something that I’ve never ever done. Sure, I’ve thought about it before. I’ve even felt guilty because I’ve felt like I should do it. But still, it just hadn’t happened. So I stopped expecting it. Which is why I was so surprised to sweat profusely [...]
yoga
Today a group of us took yoga. This is something that I’ve been saying I would do on this tour for well, the whole darned time. And finally, over a year into it, I did. *hold for applause* I actually really enjoy it. And not because it makes me feel awesome, either. At least not [...]
