Category Archives: whuuuut?

Centered.

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Something crazy happened in class the other day: I caught myself actually looking forward to center. Whah?! Only took three frikin years.

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Pas de deuces.

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Talking to a friend the other day, Her daughter has been requesting this Barbie ballerina book like every night for story time, you know, probably like Barbie’s Pretty Pink Adventures As A Pretty Primadonna! And Friends! or something. Don’t judge, … Continue reading →

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Entrechat

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Just now typing the word “entrechat”, I was suddenly really looking at the word for the first time and seeing that it ends in “chat” and wondering in a feeble non-French-speaking way if it has anything to do with cats? … Continue reading →

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Best Girl is a relative term

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

My class is an open level drop-in class, right? So nobody ever know exactly who will show up, although there’s a general sense of which of the regulars show up on which of the days. Anyway, so this one day, … Continue reading →

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Ballet Pink 4Evah!

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Oh, you know, just doing the laundry, thinking how laundry day looks a little different nowadays. I mean, with the nursing bras line-drying along side the ballet tights and all. Also, the bra and the tights totally match in color. … Continue reading →

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Fondu with extra melt

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

So we’re at the barre, And Smirnoff is messing around with his cd’s, taking one out, putting a new one in. New music for the fondu series, He presses play and there’s a kind of elaborate and frilly piano intro, … Continue reading →

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Vote.

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

Ha ha hahahahaha! Ok but really, vote.

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Downtown LA, WTF

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

Mr. Adult Beginner went downtown to the Alexandria Hotel this morning for a work-thing, and sent me this text: And he said, “What is the Blankenship Ballet?” And then, “WTF LA. It’s in the Alexandria. Also, farmers market right outside, … Continue reading →

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Gettin’ Stampy With It

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

One of my favorite things is going to the post office and asking the postal-workers for “pretty stamps!” Because the postal dudes are pretty much always male, old, and grumpy, and they mostly look bewildered and repeat “pretty? stamps?” like … Continue reading →

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When Bel Air equals Ballet

Posted on August 31, 2012 by

Writing about this fitting reminded me about this other fitting I did, over a year ago, back before I had my secret powerz. So, the fitting was in Bel Air, and the deal was I would drive over there, fit … Continue reading →

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