the really BIG show

today went with tracey to the really BIG show at the academy of music. i could go on about the various acts but we'd gone specifically to see the illustrious megan e. labonte hooping alongside the dixieland jazz band primate fiasco. the band was pretty great, esp. when they weren't singing. but megan was amazing. she has a dancer's style and grace, and a good deal of self-taught hooping skill. she and the band are friends, and they were so in tune with one another, i couldn't tell where the music ended and megan began. it was smoooooooth. the music was smooth and her movement was smooth and the lighting was beautiful. it felt like old new orleans, sort of, if i'd ever been there. i kicked myself for not bringing along a video camera because i would love to watch that one act over and over and over. as for the others, most of them were good. really megan blew them all away though. not even the acrobats or the juggler could touch her.

after that adventure i drove tracey home and then came back to my own home and put in a couple hours of work, broken up by small chunks of hooping practice. i'm going to keep at it and keep at it and keep at it so that this spring i will be able to join the circus. more on that when it happens. la la la. i have a really bad headache. i will see my very useless doctor tomorrow and i don't expect that he'll help me so i don't even know why i'm going. but whatever. it's just down the street.

p.s. tracey got me a kazoo!