Kiss..

So apparently yesterday was Kiss A Dancer Day.. totally missed that priceless opportunity. Bummer. :)

Alina Lauren..

Happy-Go-Lucky

So I was driving down the street yesterday and just feeling wonderful.  I felt good.  Like so good I was just smiling and stuff.  I felt like one of those girls in those movies where it just goes through one of her days and everything is just perfectly in line and wonderful and she's just smiling like some sort of weirdo.

I mean, school had gone great. I went to get gas and the guy and the cash register told me I had a beautiful smile.  I got $0.10 off each gallon of gas I got. The radio was playing my favorite songs all in a row (which never happens.)  I was headed off to dance class, which is always a good thing. I didn't have any homework.  I had been working in the theater the past few days and got to learn how to use the light board for the first time. My teachers were very proud of my performance in my dance classes at school.  I had a quiz that morning in video design that I felt great about.  I mean everything was just basically PERFECT.

. . . And I'm blonde so that happy-go-lucky look was really totally working for me.  I could've popped straight out of a movie. For real.  And then I realized.. that's always how the movie starts.. and then BAM. The character's world is shattered so you can have some fancy plot-line that interests the reader or viewer.

So now I'm a skeptic.. life can't be all that good, right?

It's like the calm awesomeness before the storm.

I wish I could say.. "my spidey senses are tingling.." but unfortunately I'm not an awesome character out of a movie or book that has any kind of special senses, but I'm on the lookout for disaster so I can avoid it as best I can.

I love being happy-go-lucky!

And on that note.. my spring break last week was wonderful and I'm just the happiest person in the world.

Before dance class.

Alina Lauren.. :)

Dance Presentation

Being a Dance Production major we've been really analyzing dance and design on stage. The more we analyze the "in general" aspects of performance the more I analyze my own relationship with dance.

I like ballet. Let's be honest. And I also dislike modern, except for the strengthening factor, but the performing factor sucks. Ballet is all about projecting yourself to an audience: proper posture, head high, open attitude. Modern is all about your "inner self:" contractions, pulling away from the audience, hiding from reality... Or facing reality head on?

I guess I feel like getting on stage and dancing for yourself and your poverty and your sadness and how you've been wronged is all kind of.. Arrogant and selfish. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and place for sad choreography and performance; however, when I get in a stage and dance for an audience it is really all for them,and I feel a lot more successful in the end.

Consider it a happy, feel-good perspective but I can't stand having to be subject to people's performances where all they can they about is them.

Coding

So I've been trying out this new "Do-It-Yourself" website for coding and I love it! Absolutely love it! In fact I love it so much I've been playing around with the HTML involved in this post. I can make my words...
bold
italic

change the color

or change the size and font.

This is SO cool!

Honestly I'm really learning to appreciate the hard work it takes to make a computer's programs work.  I'm hoping that at some point I will really be able to understand all the behind the scenes computer stuff.

Its odd.  I am SO dedicated to the arts because of the emotions and feelings involved.  I love more abstract stuff.  That's "my thing."  But I'm really finding this logical stuff fascinating.  I mean, its fun to have something that you have to think deeply about in a more "number-crunching" analysis type way.

http://www.codecademy.com/#

Try it.

Alina Lauren!