A lot on the horizon...

Work today was pretty decent and it went quickly. All day I had two things on my mind: The sword form, and all the Hula shows coming up. Today, for the first time, I got my twinge of nervousness about the Hula shows. There are three numbers that I don't know inside and out. One of them I hardly know at all. And we've only got two more rehearsals before the big show, I think. And Claudine has the video and the notes. And the music came out sounding really muddy. God! I so totally do not want to mess up Keali'i's papa-hehi number. We've practiced that one on and off for a few months, but I just never have it firmly in my mind; I don't have the muscle memory yet, and it's complicated. You're playing two different instruments while dancing--one with your right foot, one with both hands--in two different rhythms, one on the beat, one syncopated, and once in a while they switch. I can get the rhythms without any big problem; it's really the movements that I don't feel I have memorized, and certainly I still get the verses mixed up. O_o Then there's the Wedding Song which we only rehearsed twice so far, and for which I also don't have the music, and then there's the new Tahitian.

*shudder*

And I'm still thinking of the sword form. I hope we're doing that again tomorrow night.

Tonight Kim is coming over for our usual hang-out and chat. I don't know what I'd do without my closest friends. Probably be on the internet a lot more than I am. ;) And probably care about it, too. Actually, I might bring up that road-trip that she has been talking about for a while. We have always wanted to drive down to one of the really big Powwows in the south-west-ish. Kim loves these things. I do, too ... although I always leave feeling just a little disenfranchised. My own issue, I guess. My blood is just as Native as a lot of NDNs who liv on the rez, but, I know, I know: different world view. I didn't grow up on the rez. I get that. Still kind of odd, like looking through a window to the culture of your ancestors. I'd love to just touch it sometimes, you know?

Or maybe I'll just try to talk her into going hiking at Camp Hero again, or to Tuxedo for the Renfest. Whichever. ^_^

I've got so much to do before Saturday! I just don't feel like doing it right now.

ETA: Look at the size of this wave as compared to the guy surfing it. This almost made me throw up. I'll stick to my little 3' surf, okee?

A lot on the horizon...

Work today was pretty decent and it went quickly. All day I had two things on my mind: The sword form, and all the Hula shows coming up. Today, for the first time, I got my twinge of nervousness about the Hula shows. There are three numbers that I don't know inside and out. One of them I hardly know at all. And we've only got two more rehearsals before the big show, I think. And Claudine has the video and the notes. And the music came out sounding really muddy. God! I so totally do not want to mess up Keali'i's papa-hehi number. We've practiced that one on and off for a few months, but I just never have it firmly in my mind; I don't have the muscle memory yet, and it's complicated. You're playing two different instruments while dancing--one with your right foot, one with both hands--in two different rhythms, one on the beat, one syncopated, and once in a while they switch. I can get the rhythms without any big problem; it's really the movements that I don't feel I have memorized, and certainly I still get the verses mixed up. O_o Then there's the Wedding Song which we only rehearsed twice so far, and for which I also don't have the music, and then there's the new Tahitian.

*shudder*

And I'm still thinking of the sword form. I hope we're doing that again tomorrow night.

Tonight Kim is coming over for our usual hang-out and chat. I don't know what I'd do without my closest friends. Probably be on the internet a lot more than I am. ;) And probably care about it, too. Actually, I might bring up that road-trip that she has been talking about for a while. We have always wanted to drive down to one of the really big Powwows in the south-west-ish. Kim loves these things. I do, too ... although I always leave feeling just a little disenfranchised. My own issue, I guess. My blood is just as Native as a lot of NDNs who liv on the rez, but, I know, I know: different world view. I didn't grow up on the rez. I get that. Still kind of odd, like looking through a window to the culture of your ancestors. I'd love to just touch it sometimes, you know?

Or maybe I'll just try to talk her into going hiking at Camp Hero again, or to Tuxedo for the Renfest. Whichever. ^_^

I've got so much to do before Saturday! I just don't feel like doing it right now.

ETA: Look at the size of this wave as compared to the guy surfing it. This almost made me throw up. I'll stick to my little 3' surf, okee?