Life of a Dancing Engineer

All in all, my current schedule accounts for about 22 hours per week of dance, with about 2 hours of that spent warming-up, 2.25 hours spent in 3 private lessons, 3 hours spent in 4 group classes, 2.5 hours spent in am-am practice, 7.5 hours spent social dancing, and the remainder, about 5.25 hours spent […]

Two days before the SuperShag invitational, I had a coaching session with Pat Traymore. In retrospect, I feel like I was more nervous dancing in front of Pat during our coaching session than I had been the first time she judged my dancing (and the first time I ever competed — about 2 months earlier), […]

A couple of weeks ago, I had a big scare one night after dance practice. I was sitting in the changing room, winding down and taking my shoes off, and as I removed my right shoe, it quickly became apparent that during practice, my big toe on my right foot had gone completely numb. And despite […]

I’ve been doing some online window shopping recently… welll… more like planning… because I’d like to pick up at least a few of these things in the near future! 😉 I intend to go to my friend Brian’s dancewear shop (Take the Lead DanceWear) tonight to try on a few of the following things: DanceWear […]

Last night, I attended this event at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, as a volunteer for Project Smile, not to be confused, as I confused it, with Operation Smile. The event was really nice, I was surprised to find that Yelp organizes real life events, and it was also interesting to watch the Yelpers […]

Ahh! A blog! 🙂 And my first post in it! Alas, after hours of messing with the new hosting site, I don’t have time to even note a fraction of the myriad of ideas I wish I could write about at this very moment! *sigh* But I made it this far! xD Next time, I’ll […]