Blue Eyes Designs

I feel really strange right now. I’m working on the final project for D’s perl class and I’m not… intimidated by it anymore. I feel like I should be, but really, I think I get it. My primary feeling is one of just wanting to be done. I want to be able to focus on the website. I want to pack. I want to finish my GD/EP project (which I will post in PDF form when completed,) but I know that if I do that, I’ll spend too much time on it and never get D’s finished. So I’m
waiting until I’m done with D’s or it’s late Thursday night whichever comes first) to wrap that up, so it doesn’t screw me elsewhere. Talk about knowing yourself.

But really, I just feel… strange. Good, I guess. Not stressed terribly, not freaking out, certainly, but not completely at-ease. Numb. I don’t think I will be until I know the next week’s going to play out and I’m done.

That said, back to my work.

An open letter to my congress-people, in response to the consideration of a
draft reinstatement in early 2005:

I’m writing to urge you to deny the reinstitution of the draft. I personally
feel that a draft is an illogical and damaging tool. If a war waged by the
United States is truly worth fighting, then the guiding principles that lead to
conflict will drive the people to support it on their own, without being forced
to do so. By forcing the young men and women of the United States to risk their
lives for a cause they do not support, they are only rallied against the nation
created to defend them and their freedoms. By pulling the nation’s students out
of college and into combat, you drastically reduce their chances of ever
finishing their education and becoming the experienced leaders of tomorrow.

The Nation’s capital does not need another monument remembering thousands of
fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, sisters and bothers lost to cause they do not
support. Please vote no.

So everyone decided to schedule stuff this weekend, specifically, TONIGHT. I had
to make a choice as to what to do, and I decided that I would go the dance
concert since I was personally invited to it on numerous occasions and then hop
back to CFA to see what was left of the Improv show that J and D put togther.

I have to say, I am very glad I went to the dance concert. I see a lot of
potential in the dancers and coregraphers. In particular, I liked the pieces put
together by L. I think they were wonderfully dynamic, and they’d certainly be
interesting to work with as a designer. It’s clear that she likes her pieces to
speak, and I think as soon as she can find a good balance with that, her pieces
will be fantastic. The again, maybe I’m just a sucker for re-mixed techno and
pointe.

There were a few other pieces that interested me as well. In a modern-based
program, it’s refreshing to see different styles, even if they are a form of
modern. The opening of the second half was a hip-hop number that I found myself
wishing was longer. Bouncy and generally fun, it was a nice choice to get
people to focus again. The last piece was a swing number, and I have to say, it
was the best performance swing I’ve seen in a while. Usually it just seems campy
in a staged setting, but the arrangement lent itself to some moments of
interaction and story-telling. Makes me miss the days of swinging in the old caf
with L.H. and the gang….

Post dance concert was improv. I wish I’d gotten to see more of it. From what I
gathered, it’s a sort of “devised” (for those of you who know what that was) but
more improv. This evening’s wound up being a bit of a downer, but impressively
acted on all counts.

I never did make it to the Choir concert, but that’s ok, cuz I got the hookup
and can at least get a recording. Not quite the same, but it’ll last longer!

I’ve procrastinated long enough. Time to be an LD again…