Updates!

I'm having to seriously reconsider how much time I've spent dancing. Not only is it costing my parents a fortune (I've already exhausted all of the money the state gives me through my Charter School), but I'm injuring myself constantly from the repetitive stress, and I'm worried that it's distracting me from my true life's goal (acting).

Competition (Showstoppers, AKA the big one) is in a week. I've made all twelve turns at the end of River Deep about twice. It's also currently difficult to walk seeing as my UT band is extremely tight, causing a lot of pain in my knee when I bend and straighten it. I will literally hop on one leg to the car so I don't have to put pressure on it, then dance for three hours and come back ready to collapse. We got the competition schedule yesterday, River Deep is at 10:00 p.m. on Friday. That means that once we're done with awards it'll be eleven or later, and it takes another hour to drive back. Did I mention that my solo is at ten o'clock on Saturday, and that it takes an hour to drive there and you have to be an hour early? At least I'll have the solo and duo over with, so that I can enjoy the rest of the competition. At Dance Masters my solo was my second to last dance, and the wait was excruciating.

TYR is putting on Les Miserables this summer, and I think I'm going to audition. There are a lot of other people auditioning (although literally no guys, it might have to be an all-girl rendition) so whether I'll get in or not is questionable. It's something to do, though, and that's always good.