Today was definitely Monday. It was everything a stereotypical Monday could possibly be. I felt lethargic, and classes offered a lot of down time which did not aid in my efforts to stay awake. But I had some great ballet successes today, which I always enjoy celebrating. Ballet doesn't pay off often, but when it does it's awesome.
1. Quadruple pirouette. En dehors (harder). This means I pushed off the ground, spun around on my toes 4 times, then landed. It was super awesome. Everyone's reaction was, "Do it again!" My reaction was, "Psh. No quit whilst ahead." I let it be that one glorious pirouette.
2. Penche. I wasn't looking, so I can't know for sure, but it felt awesome. The perfect penche is a split, standing on one foot. So you stand on one foot, lift one leg behind you to 90 degrees, then tilt until your legs form a full split. The challenge in this is primarily balance, and I felt kind of great for one glorious penche.
3. Grande Rond de Jambe Super Adage. The idea is that you stand on one foot, lift the other to at least 90 degrees (ideally higher), in front of you, then you super slowly carry it around so that it ends up behind you. The hardest part is arguably the position to the side, as you have a ton of leg weight really far away from your center of gravity. And in this particular combination we had to hold to the side for a really long time. The danger is that you use your tiny hip flexor to lift your entire leg, which leads to really terrible issues with your hips and back, so I've been working really really really hard on using the proper muscles to hold that leg to the side. And for one glorious 4 count in adage music, I held my leg really high and turned out, I really felt all the muscles that were supposed to work doing their job, and I didn't feel the hip flexor grabbing at all, and that leg felt absolutely weightless. It was amazing.
That's basically how my Monday went today. In individual glorious moments. Like the glorious moment I realized that "Casa Blanca" meant, THE White House, not just some old house that happened to be white. Or when there wasn't a line to heat up my leftover pasta. Or when I found 45 calorie chocolate ice cream bars at Giant that didn't even have any artificial sweeteners or anything bad in them. Or the two epic Doctor Who moments of running and arriving just in time to catch first the bus, then the metro.
I definitely did a lot of half-sleeping today, but in the moments I was fully awake, my day was pretty awesome. Now off to bed so that hopefully I can be awake for more sustained glorious moments tomorrow.
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