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Mar. 4th, 2009 09:29 amI have a nasty-ass cold. It started creeping up on me over the weekend, and I finally succumbed to it on Tuesday. Fortunately, I had worked my butt off on Monday, so I was able to slack a lot on my workload and spend Tuesday lying on the couch.
I went to my dance class on Monday night, despite my cold. I was really glad I went, because I found out that we are performing in a recital on April 6. I'm really excited about this; it's been years since I danced on a stage and I LOVE performing. This is also an impetus for me to attend all future classes, since I don't want to look like a knob on the stage. We're doing a piece that features veil work right now, and it's both challenging and a lot of fun.
In other good news, Roughing it in the books has received a fair amount of attention for our Canada Reads challenge, which was all Melanie's idea. It's nice to have good press.
Since I've been ill, I've been catching up on Battle star Galatica (now on Season 3) and spent part of yesterday watching "The Last Picture show", which I loved to bits.
I also had a major realization that has carried out over the past few days. I realized that one of the reasons why I love young adult literature is because it makes ample use of humour in serious circumstances. A lot of adult literature doesn't do this, and it's really hard to balance humour and tragedy in adult lit. This realization opened my mind and strengthened my love of, and continued support of YA.
I went to my dance class on Monday night, despite my cold. I was really glad I went, because I found out that we are performing in a recital on April 6. I'm really excited about this; it's been years since I danced on a stage and I LOVE performing. This is also an impetus for me to attend all future classes, since I don't want to look like a knob on the stage. We're doing a piece that features veil work right now, and it's both challenging and a lot of fun.
In other good news, Roughing it in the books has received a fair amount of attention for our Canada Reads challenge, which was all Melanie's idea. It's nice to have good press.
Since I've been ill, I've been catching up on Battle star Galatica (now on Season 3) and spent part of yesterday watching "The Last Picture show", which I loved to bits.
I also had a major realization that has carried out over the past few days. I realized that one of the reasons why I love young adult literature is because it makes ample use of humour in serious circumstances. A lot of adult literature doesn't do this, and it's really hard to balance humour and tragedy in adult lit. This realization opened my mind and strengthened my love of, and continued support of YA.
