April 30, 2004
I feel special. Thanks to my husband I now have gmail. It’s google’s new email, and it’s cool. It’s still in beta mode and not open to the general public yet. Current auctions on ebay for gmail accounts are going for $60+. My hubby got an invitation through blogger to open his gmail account. After using it for about a week, he got two inviations to send out to other people. He graced me with one, and I’m having fun playing around with it.
This morning I was my usual graceful self. I walked straight into the big wooden arm of one of our chairs in the living room. The arm happened to hit at mid-thigh level. Boy did that hurt. It got me thinking about my regular excuse for being clumsy. I danced for about 20 years. When studying ballet, you are trained to not look down at the floor. Your chin should be up, and you should be projecting outward toward the audience. This works well when you are on a stage or in a dance studio but not so well when you’re in an apartment filled with furniture.
Sometimes it hits me how much I miss dancing. I had to quit while in college due to a lovely condition called chondromalacia patella. I still have problems with it now. Anyway, I guess the hardest part is that I really didn’t get to “choose” to quit. Ballet was such a huge part of my life. I think about less and less as the years go by, but in the beginning, I couldn’t help but dwell on it. I still miss it, but my husband tells me that I’ll always be his ballerina.